Nicole is a special counsel in the transactional banking and finance group in Auckland. Her experience includes working with banks, corporates, and local authorities on domestic and international transactions. These include general corporate facilities, leveraged and non-leveraged acquisition financing, property financing, margin loans, cash confirmations, distressed bank financing, public private partnership financings, bilateral and syndicated secured and unsecured lending for investment grade and below-investment grade borrowers, tax-structured financing, and debt capital markets transactions.
Nicole was previously a partner at "magic circle" law firm Linklaters LLP in London.
Examples of Work
- Westpac - partial demerger of the institutional banking business of the New Zealand branch of Westpac Banking Corporation, involving the transfer of approximately $6.2 billion customer loans and $5.8 billion customer deposits to Westpac New Zealand
- Auckland Council - $700 million syndicated credit facility arranged by Bank of New Zealand (first syndicated council funding), $500 million commercial paper programme, and $500 million medium-term note programme
- Coca-Cola Amatil (NZ) - United States private debt placement, and accession by New Zealand issuer to the Australian group's US$2 billion wholesale euro-medium term note programme
- Toll Group - private placement in the United States of US$275 million notes
- Spotless - private placement in the United States of US$160 million notes
- BOQ Equipment Finance - acquisition of FleetPartner's portfolio of heavy commercial vehicle operating leases
- Matariki Forests - restructuring of syndicated loan facility
- Hobsonville schools PPP - advising bidding consortium
- Legal & General - £1 billion general corporate purposes facility
- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi - ¥28 billion samurai loan
- Barclays Capital, HSBC, BNP Paribas - a number of confidential complex tax-structured transactions of £500 million to £1 billion each, (including broken repos, credit-linked facilities, preference share issues, put and call options, security, guarantees, bespoke derivatives, stock lending, and set-off agreements)
- Stodir - £235 million syndicated leveraged facility to fund takeover bid for Inspired Gaming Group
- Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan - several facilities over a number of years for Xstrata from its initial listing on the London and Swiss stock exchanges through to its acquisition of mineral and mining assets in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, and Australia
- SEB - crossover credit facility of €330 million to fund a joint venture, with German and Finnish security
Other Credentials
- Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales
