Banking & Finance

Debt Capital Markets

Our debt capital markets practice is at the cutting edge. We have structured and implemented some of the most complex and significant debt capital market transactions, involving both domestic and international capital raisings.

Our specialists have a comprehensive understanding of the markets and their regulatory framework. We work collaboratively with our clients, other advisers, and our equity capital markets group, to find the best solutions for our clients' fundraising objectives.

Our experience has had us acting for issuers (corporates, financial institutions, and local authorities), underwriters, managers, arrangers, trustees, paying agents, and bondholders. We have advised on the full spectrum of debt securities transactions, both wholesale and retail. This includes bond and note issues (secured, unsecured, and credit-wrapped), commercial paper programmes (including mortgage and asset-backed programmes), and the issuance of hybrid and convertible/exchangeable instruments.

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Our Experience

GE Capital New Zealand - $2 billion commercial paper programme
Goldman Sachs JBWere - lead manager on Vector's $1 billion credit-wrapped bond issue
Auckland City Council - $150 million listed bond issue (the first listing of the securities of a local authority in New Zealand) and $350 million listed bond issue (the largest bond issue by a local authority in New Zealand)
Fisher & Paykel Finance - $400 million receivables-backed master trust securitisation programme
Guinness Peat Group - various capital note issues, ranging from $200 million to $350 million
Kommuninvest - establishment of bond issuance programme to allow for the issue of Kauri bonds
Tauranga City Council - $30 million retail bond issue (the first retail bond issue utilising the new Securities Act exemption for local authorities)

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