Alan Maclean

Profile

Alan became a partner in the Melbourne office of HWL Ebsworth in 2009 and has more than 20 years banking and finance experience. Before joining HWL Ebsworth he was a partner with Freehills for 15 years.

Corporate and Business Finance

Alan has acted on a broad range of corporate financings acting predominantly for lenders and arrangers. These transactions have involved a variety of structures and terms, including secured and unsecured, syndicated, bank club and bilateral, security trust and security management arrangements, intercreditor arrangements, and more complex stamp duty and tax driven structures.  

Property Finance

Alan has experience in all facets of development and investment financing in the commercial property market. He has been involved with the financing of industrial subdivisions, apartment towers, commercial office buildings, multi-use developments, listed and unlisted property funds and hotels and other serviced accommodation. Some of the more significant matters he has worked on include:

• Acting for the financiers in relation to the senior $398 million construction and term debt facility for the Queen Victoria project, comprising retail, office and residential precincts, and the recent refinancing of that facility;
• Acting for the senior financiers in relation to the $293 million facility for the development of the Eureka Tower development at Southbank;
• Acting for the senior financiers in relation to the financing of the successful bid by Babcock and Brown and Citta Property Group to redevelop the St Kilda Triangle site;
• Acting for senior and mezzanine financiers in relation to the development of various Docklands sites, including Conder Tower and Nolan Tower;
• Acting for the senior or mezzanine financiers in relation to development and acquisition financing for numerous residential apartment and office towers and commercial and residential subdivisions

Project Finance

 Alan has a broad range of project finance experience acquired over the last 15 years across a range of sectors including transport, gas, power, water, health and resources. Some of the more significant matters he has acted on are:

• Advising the 4 major banks on the financing for the expansion of the Visy pulp and paper mill at Tumut in New South Wales;
• Acting for the joint lead arrangers of the $2.49 billion acquisition facilities to finance a series of transactions involving the restructure of the Alinta group and the acquisition of the utility distribution assets of UED, Multinet and Alinta Networks(Euromoney deal of the year);
• Acting for Transurban in relation to the $1.78 billion project financing for the construction and operation of Melbourne City Link project and the subsequent $ 1.95 billion refinancing in 2002; 
• Acting for the lead arrangers in relation to the syndicated financing for the acquisition of the WestNet rail assets in Western Australia;
• Acting for the financier in relation to the equity bridge facility for the Emu Downs windfarm project

Banking and Consumer Finance

Alan’s experience also includes acting for major financial institutions on financial services regulation, including advising foreign financial institutions on the regulatory issues associated with establishing a financial services business in Australia, advising on and completing the transfer of a financial services business between ADIs, advising on and developing products for consumer credit and business lending and advising on financial products regulation under chapter 7, banking and payment systems regulation and ecommerce.