Firm Name: King & Wood Mallesons
Country: Australia
Expertise: Banking & Finance
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Professional Biography:
Aaron Bourke is our exclusively recommended Banking & Finance expert in Australia on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Aaron directly using the contact details listed above.
Aaron is a partner in the Banking and Finance team in the Brisbane office of King & Wood Mallesons where he specialises in corporate & leveraged acquisition finance, property & construction finance, project finance and asset finance. Aaron also practices in the area of credit restructurings, secondary debt trading and insolvency. He represents both financiers and borrowers which gives him an in-depth understanding of the market place and the competing tensions within a transaction. Aaron also has cross-border expertise having worked on numerous security and other finance issues in the US, PRC, Asia, UK, N.Z., Europe, Middle East and South America.
Aaron is an Adjunct Professor at the QUT Law School where he wrote and lectures the law school’s Banking & Finance subject. Aaron is also a contributor to the latest edition of the firm’s text book ‘Australian Finance Law’. He was Best Lawyer’s Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year for Brisbane in 2017.
Aaron has advised on corporate financing’s for Hyne & Son, Silver Chef, Pepper Home Loans, Tatts Group, Devine Limited, Alliance Airlines, Australian Country Choice, National Storage Limited, Cardno, Australian Agricultural Company and leveraged acquisition financing for Puma Energy, McAleese, Super Retail, Industrea and L J Hooker. He has worked on property and construction transactions involving the Soul, Sheraton and Oracle towers on the Gold Coast, the Mirage Resorts, the Green Island Resort and the Qantas Headquarters in Sydney. Aaron has worked on project financing for Horizon Oil, Central Queensland Port Authority, Pan Aust Limited, Macarthur Coal, GE, and numerous projects for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
His experience in credit restructures, secondary debt trading and insolvency includes credit restructures, debt trades and related work involving Raptis, Octaviar (MFS) entities, HMP Group, WOW Sight and Sound, Juniper entities (Soul) and ABC Learning.
Aaron Bourke has drafted a complete package of retail and commercial documents for Bank of Queensland and advised on regulatory and integration issues.