AUSTRALIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Lewis Grimm, Alastair Gourlay, Dean Bao and Emily Tsoi, Jones Day
Dean Bao is a senior financial markets lawyer at Jones Day advising financiers and borrowers on a wide range of financing transactions throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Dean’s practice focuses on acquisition finance, corporate finance and project finance. He has advised on major complex acquisition finance transactions, including advising various private credit funds and financial institutions on the up to AUD1 billion take-private unitranche financing for TPG Capital’s acquisition of Invocare and advising OMERS on its acquisition of TPG Telecom’s telecommunications towers. Dean is a member of the Law Institute of NSW and the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.
Emily Tsoi is a senior financial markets lawyer at Jones Day with extensive experience advising on multi-jurisdictional leveraged finance, private credit, funds finance, and corporate
finance matters. Emily has practised in Australia and Hong Kong, where she represented financial institutions, private capital funds, sponsors, and corporates on a wide range of debt transactions. Recent highlights of Emily’s experience include acting for the mandated lead arranger, underwriter, and bookrunner on the Term Loan B financing of BGH Capital’s acquisition of the Virtus Group and various funds and financiers on funds financings, including financings to Global Infrastructure Partners and OPTrust, a Canadian pension fund.
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