Joost van Amelsfort - Simpson Grierson

Senior Associate

Joost is a senior associate in the firm's corporate group. He specialises in corporate and securities law transactions, including public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance.

Joost's work experience includes a number of years at leading international law firm Linklaters in London, specialising in equity and debt capital market issuance. In London he completed a client secondment with Morgan Stanley, providing transaction management and compliance advisory services. Joost also had a one year secondment to the Takeovers Panel (New Zealand), where he advised on a range of compliance, regulatory, and enforcement issues.

Examples of Work

Hobsonville schools PPP - advising bidding consortium
Advising on all aspects of public and private securities issuance transactions and operation of the Securities Act, including offer structuring, exemptions, and drafting of offer documentation
Advising on the structuring of investments, including identifying appropriate investment vehicles and ongoing corporate governance and compliance issues
Auckland City Council - $350 million secured fixed rate, seven year bond issue
Tauranga City Council - $75 million secured fixed rate, 5 1/2 year bond issue
Department of Corrections - contract management of Mt Eden Corrections Facility
Lloyds Banking Group - participation in state recapitalisation, liquidity facility, and asset protection schemes including negotiation with HM Treasury on structuring issues
Lloyds TSB Group - acquisition of HBOS under a Companies Act (UK) scheme of arrangement
Barclays - £3 billion callable perpetual capital instruments
Credit Suisse - US$1.2 billion structured repackaged participation securities
Credit Agricole - $250 million deeply subordinated perpetual notes
Barclays - US$1 billion American Depositary Receipts issue representing preference shares
Rabobank Nederland - $900 million perpetual non-cumulative capital securities