Combining the skills of our corporate, tax and finance lawyers we provide advice on highly complex, and often cross-border finance transactions.

Our market leading structured finance team advises on a full range of structured lending and capital raising.  We are involved in document preparation, providing opinions on tax, corporate and banking law and advising on leading edge transaction structures involving tax, finance and security issues.

Transactions involving multiple parties and multiple jurisdictions have varying legal, tax and accounting requirements and Simpson Grierson is in an excellent position to guide you through these.

Typically deals can include:

• Swaps and other derivative based structures.
• First tier capital raising.
• Inter-group and external funding arrangements.
• Structured conduit transactions.
• Synthetic instruments.
• Cross border structured lending.
• Restructuring for risk weighting/capital adequacy purposes.

You can have confidence in our advice.  Recent structured finance transactions we have been involved in have a combined value of more than NZD10 billion.  These include:

• Westpac's two recent tier one capital raisings.
• Funding structures for a number of significant telecommunications operations.
• Film financing and security structures for major US studios, involving highly complex tax and intellectual property issues.
• Infrastructure funding transactions involving complex payment structures and multiple international parties.