Maddocks continues to build the strength of its Commercial team with the appointment of banking and finance partner, Stuart Weir. This is the seventh partner appointment to the firm’s Commercial group over the past eight months.
Stuart brings with him more than 20 years of international commercial legal experience, including 14 years’ banking and finance experience involving transactions in project finance, acquisition finance, leveraged buy-outs, debt capital markets, and corporate restructurings and workouts. He joins Maddocks after working at Allens Arthur Robinson for the past 10 years, including eight years as a partner.
Stuart has been involved in many significant and complex financing transactions, including the project financing of the Macarthur Wind Farm, the southern hemisphere’s largest wind farm project; acting for the senior Australian lenders in the workout and restructuring of the Centro Properties Group; acting for ANZ on its $2.6 billion acquisition of the Landmark rural finance business; and acting for CitySpring on its $SGD1.5 billion acquisition of the Basslink Interconnector from National Grid UK.
According to Stuart, “Maddocks provides an excellent opportunity to build a banking and finance practice that will complement areas where the firm has major strengths such as the infrastructure, corporate and insolvency practices.”
David Rennick, Maddocks’ CEO was thrilled to welcome Stuart to the firm: “Stuart has a breadth of banking and finance experience across both the public and private sectors nationally and offshore. The addition of Stuart coupled with the recent expansion of the Commercial team further strengthens our offering in providing first-class, commercial and pragmatic legal advice in our chosen sectors of Finance and Services, Infrastructure and Government.”
Partner appointments to the Commercial team as at 1 July 2011 include Andrew McNee and Jeff Goodall in Sydney, and Chong Ming Goh, Jade Rowarth, Marelda Hibberd and Ron Smooker in Melbourne.
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