Jesse Fairley

Jesse has significant domestic and international experience advising financial institutions, sponsors and corporates on complex and innovative financing transactions. He specialises in securitisation and structured finance, debt capital markets, corporate and acquisition finance, debt restructuring and liability management exercises. Jesse also regularly advises on financial services law and regulation affecting banks and other financial institutions.

Jesse has over 10 years of experience gained in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. His experience includes advising:

• Virgin Money (as originator) on a number of multi-currency Rule 144A/Reg S RMBS transactions, including the first transaction to comply with both the EU and US risk retention rules.
• BNP Paribas and HSBC as arrangers on the establishment of Virgin Money's covered bond programme.
• Terra Firma (as sponsor) and Annington Homes on the £4 billion refinancing of Annington Homes' ground rent securitisations and the related establishment of its EMTN programme.
• ZIM Integrated Shipping Services on the establishment of its US$100 million multi-jurisdictional receivables securitisation programme, securitising the freight receivables originated via its agents in six jurisdictions.
• RBS and Deutsche Bank as arrangers on the £3 billion secured refinancing of the AA Group, an innovative capital structure consisting of investment grade notes, high yield notes and senior secured term facilities with the ability to incur incremental debt under the same secured intercreditor and common terms platform.

LLB (Hons), University of Waikato

Jesse began his career at Russell McVeagh in 2008. He returned to the firm in early 2018 after spending five years in London as an associate and senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.