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Nick Swart

Nick Swart

Managing Associate

Sydney

About Nick Swart

Nick has experience acting for sponsors, borrowers and lenders on a broad range of debt financing transactions, with a particular focus on infrastructure acquisition financing, sponsor backed leveraged finance and fund financing.

Nick also spent three years working in the London office of Linklaters where he worked on a number of complex, cross-border financings.

Nick's select experience includes advising:

Acquisition and Infrastructure Finance
  • the lenders to I Squared Capital on its proposed public-to-private acquisition of oOh!media Limited.
  • Stonepeak on the acquisition of Allgas, a gas distribution network in Queensland, from the APA Group, Marubeni Corporation and other shareholders.
  • the lenders to Igneo Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of Strait Link.
  • the lenders to PEP on its acquisition of Spark NZ's data centre business.
  • TPG Capital on the financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of ASX-listed Infomedia Ltd.
  • the XRG-led consortium on the financing of its proposed acquisition of Santos Limited.
  • the lenders to Carlyle on its acquisition of Waste Services Group from Livingbridge.
  • Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partnerson its acquisition of a 49% interest in the Onslow Iron haul road, partnering with MinRes, and subsequent refinancings.
  • Seraya Partners on its on its acquisition, via its portfolio company Cyan Renewables, of ASX-listed MMA Offshore Limited and its subsequent refinancing.
  • GIP on its financing arrangements in connection with its investments in the Pluto Train 2 Project, the GLNG Project and QCLNG Project.
  • Brookfield on the refinancing of the debt facilities of Aveo Group and subsequent sale process.
  • the lenders to Brookfield and PEP in relation to the financing arrangements of the Intellihub Group including its most recent A$3.1bn refinancing.
  • Brookfield on its proposed acquisition of the energy markets business of Origin Energy.
  • Northleaf and Infrared on their acquisition of Vodafone NZ's passive infrastructure assets.
  • Brookfield and Morrison Co on the financing of their public-to-private acquisition of the Uniti embedded network business.
  • the lenders to PAG in connection with the financing of its Craveable Brands portfolio.
Fund Finance
  • IFM on the subscription credit facility for its Net Zero Infrastructure Fund and its subsequent refinancings.
  • UBS on the NAV-based fund financing for Centuria Bass Credit, and two further private credit funds.
  • Macquarie Bank Limited on fund finance facilities for various domestic and offshore funds.
  • an Australian based debt fund on a proposed NAV-based portfolio leverage solution for its commercial real estate and construction debt fund.
  • fund financing transactions for both domestic and global funds, including Pacific Alliance Group, Next Capital, Allegro, Anchorage Capital Partners and Advent Private Capital.