About Robert Lau
Rob has extensive experience advising borrowers, sponsors and lenders on a wide range of debt financing transactions, both domestic and cross-border. His practice focuses on corporate finance, real estate finance and leverage finance.
Having worked at top-tier law firms in Australia and a tier-one firm in London, Rob brings deep expertise in structuring and negotiating complex financing arrangements. He has been recognised in the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list for Banking and Finance since 2023.
Robert’s corporate finance experience includes advising:
- Origin Energy on its recent $3.25 billion refinancing of corporate debt facilities and refresh of its common terms platforms
- TPG on its corporate debt facilities, including its recent $2.5 billion refinancing and establishment of its common terms platform
- Frasers on its sustainability-linked syndicated facilities agreements
- EDL Energy on its corporate debt facilities and refresh of its common terms platforms
- Endeavour Energy on its multi-sourced corporate funding, eg bank debt and bond issuances, including its recent $1.1 billion refinancing
- the financiers on Myer's corporate debt facilities, including the establishment of its common terms platform
- Centuria on its corporate debt facilities and establishment of its common terms platform
- Sonic Healthcare Limited on its refinancing of syndicated and bilateral facilities
- Brickworks on its corporate debt facilities
- the financiers on MLC’s $1.03 billion refinancing as part of its spinout of superannuation and wealth products
- Ricegrowers on its refinancing of its corporate debt facilities.
Robert’s recent real estate finance experience includes advising:
- Mirvac on the financing of its $1.8 billion build-to-rent project, including establishment of its common terms platform
- Stockland/KKR on the financing for their logistic warehouse joint venture vehicle
- the financiers to Macquarie Technology Operations Pty Limited in connection with the refinancing of its data centre development facilities
- Investa on various bank facilities, green loans and its AMTN program
- Oxford Property Group on its Australian financing arrangements
- Brisbane Housing Commission on its multi-sourced financing for seven development projects
- Anglicare on the financing of its retirement villages across three states.
Robert’s leveraged finance experience includes advising:
- the financiers on Adamentem’s acquisition of NAK Hair
- the super senior lenders on Liverpool Partners’ acquisition of Orro Group
- the super senior lenders on PEP’s acquisition of UP Education.