John Powell

Property and Development Finance

• Advising NZ PropCo on its multi-tranche debt funding of the Todd Property portfolio.
• Advising bank funders on various subdivision, commercial, apartment and hotel developments.
• Advising mezzanine lenders on apartment and other shared-ownership structures.
• Advising developers funding, retail, commercial and student accommodation projects.

Project, Asset and ECA Finance

• Acting for ANZ Bank on the establishment and utilisation of funded and unfunded export credit programmes with EKF (Denmark) and ECGD (United Kingdom).
• Advising BOTM on the utilisation of EKF supported funding. 
• Advising on the construction and launch of various Hong Kong and Chinese satellites.
• Advising Westpac on the Kiwirail ferry funding arrangement.

Acquisition and Corporate Finance

• Advising Pencarrow on the senior funding of its acquisition of a stake in New Zealand Frost Fans.
• Advising the Perpetual Guardian group on its core and acquisition funding arrangements.
• Acting for International Container Terminal Services (Philippines) on its bid for Vancouver Port.
• Acting for Barclays on a limited resource, equity put option take-out enhanced, zero-coupon loan to support an equity investment on Hangdarm Island, South Korea.
• Advising Heartland Bank on its acquisition funding of the Seniors Money Business. 

Debt Restructuring and Insolvency

• Advising PricewaterhouseCoopers as receivers of the Mainzeal group. 
• Advising the agent and security trustee in connection with the restructuring of the ownership and debt facilities of the Metroglass business.
• Advising Oaktree as a significant investor in Mediaworks.
• Advising statutory supervisors on the restructuring of finance company debenture programme.
• Acting for Smart Communications on its acquisition of control of Piltel through discounted debt purchase arrangements.
• Acting for Bank of America and IFC on their refinancing of Star Petroleum Refinery’s (Thailand) US$570 million domestic, international, IFC and JBIC debt.
• Acting for TRI and Celcom (Malaysia) to refinance their convertible bond obligations.
• Refinancing of the Sunway group’s US$100 million Euro-convertible bonds (Malaysia).