Guy Lethbridge
Partner
Direct Phone: 64 4 819 7538
Mobile: 64 27 488 8630
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Practice Area:
FinanceSpecialisations:
Capital Markets/Securities Offerings, Finance, Funds Management, Insolvency and Debt Restructuring, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Structured Finance and SecuritisationBackground:
Guy has a broad finance practice. His practice includes debt capital markets, acquisition finance, corporate finance, consumer financial services and regulation, derivatives and investment products. more
A partner since 2004, Guy acts for a variety of New Zealand and international corporate and banking clients. He has a wealth of banking and finance experience gained from both New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Transaction Experience
- Acting for BNZ on the establishment of its covered bond programme.
- Acting for Kiwibank on its $150 million listed tier 1 retail securities offer.
- Acting for Meridian Energy on its $200 million listed renewable energy bond offer.
- Acting for New Zealand Post on its $200 million listed subordinated note offer.
- Acting for Telecom on its Maple bond and Swiss bond issues.
- Acting for three New Zealand banks on their retained rmbs programmes.
- Acting for BNZ on its lower tier 2 retail offers.
- Acting for Meridian Energy on its offer of short term notes known as Renewable Energy Notes.
- Acting for Credit Suisse as arranger on tier 1 retail offers.
- Acting for Infratil on its bond programme, including its perpetual bonds (or PIIBs).
- Acting for issuers on GMTN, EMTN, ECP, USCP and Extendible programmes.
- Acting for the banks refinancing Wellington Electricity Distribution Networks' bridge facility
- Acting for Telecom on its $800m standby facility.
- Acting for Credit Suisse as arranger and the related banking syndicates in connection with the financing of acquisitions made by the Rank group (including the acquisition of Carter Holt Harvey, the full takeover of Burns Philp, and the acquisitions of BevPack, Blueridge, SIG and the packaging business of Alcoa).
- Acting for the syndicate of lenders on Hexion's acquisition of the New Zealand assets of Orica.
- Acting for Fairfax on the financing of its acquisition of Rural Press.
- Acting for Transpacific on the financing of its acquisition of Waste Management.
- Acting for Telecom on the finance aspects of its sale of Yellow Pages.
- Acting for CanWest on the finance aspects of its sale of its New Zealand business.
- Acting for Westpac on a credit wrapped loan for Powerco.
- Acting for NZOG on the project financing of the Kupe and Tui developments.
- Advising ANZ National Bank on its PIE investment products.
Qualifications:
LLB (Hons) BA Otago University
Admitted to practise in New Zealand in 1991
Admitted to practise in England and Wales in 1997