Jones Day has hired Alastair Gourlay from Baker McKenzie as a partner in its financial markets practice in Sydney.
Mr. Golay has over 20 years' experience representing financial institutions, investors and corporations in complex cross-border leveraged finance, corporate finance, private credit, fund finance and real estate finance transactions across the Asia Pacific region. I am a banking and financial lawyer with experience.
Gourley left Baker McKenzie, where he was a partner, after about five years. He has previously worked at Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance in Sydney, London and Brazil for nearly eight years and twice for more than three and a half years, including two stints at King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney. There was a short period of 16 months between them. He requalified in New South Wales. He originally trained and qualified at his Olswang, a traditional British company, now part of his CMS.
In recent years, he has advised on the A$1.5 billion multi-currency syndicated sustainability loan facility in the healthcare industry, the A$1.7 billion Term Loan B acquisition facility in the oil and gas industry, and the share of approximately A$1 billion. I went. -Private acquisition financing to a global sponsor headquartered in the United States.
“Alastair has extensive experience advising clients in leveraged finance, private credit and cross-border lending transactions, which are key areas for us to serve clients around the world. “, said Alban Caillemer du Ferage, head of Jones Day's European financial markets practice. East, Africa, and Asia.
Chris Ahern, who heads the firm's Sydney office, said Mr Gourlay was well known for his work in high-stakes financing transactions in the healthcare sector, and said: “I look forward to working with him.'' '', he added, welcoming the arrival.
Gourlay cited US companies' strong presence in Australia and influence in the US as factors for the move, saying they were “ideally placed to advise clients on the growing flow of private capital between the US and Australia.” “It's there,” he said.
In addition to Gourley's arrival, Louis Grimm, senior financial markets partner in London, will also move to the firm's Melbourne office in August. Grimm has over 20 years of leveraged finance and project finance experience working on major transactions in New York, Europe and Australia.
He represents financial institutions and leveraged borrowers in cutting-edge domestic and cross-border lending and high-yield transactions, as well as high-profile restructurings, debt management, and bankruptcy matters. His clients include Citizens, Jefferies, KeyBank, M&T Bank, TD Securities, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.
Grimm, who has been a regular at Jones Day for 16 years, is admitted in New York, England, Wales and the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. Earlier in his associate career, he worked at Allen's, an affiliate of Linklaters, and at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a New York white shoe company.
