Amy Repse
Amy advises on a full range of financial transactions including loan facilities, debt capital markets transactions and securitisation transactions.
Amy is a senior finance lawyer with more than 15 years’ experience advising borrowers, lenders, issuers and arrangers in a broad range of complex financial transactions. Amy focuses on debt capital market transactions in the domestic, European and United States markets, securitisation and other structured transactions as well as corporate loan facilities on a secured and unsecured basis. Amy also has significant expertise in property, acquisition and private equity financings.
In addition to her technical experience, clients appreciate Amy’s commercially focused and practical approach as well as her ability to manage complex transactions with multiple stakeholders. Amy completed a secondment at Jemena Limited in 2010 where she gained valuable in-house experience assisting Jemena on the establishment of their EMTN Programme and refinancing of debt facilities. Amy has also completed a secondment at National Australia Bank in late 2010 and early 2011 where she assisted with the implementation of the Personal Property Securities Act, including analysis of the impacts of PPSA, revisions to documentation and the development of system processes.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
• Macquarie Bank in relation to the establishment of TPG Telecom’s innovative handset receivables financing structure. The structure involved TPG selling eligible handset receivables to an off-balance-sheet trust, financed through senior financing from domestic and offshore financial institutions along with subordinated debt provided by TPG with Macquarie retaining residual income risk
• Melbourne Airport in relation to its $1 billion subordinated notes issuance as well as its EMTN programme and issuances, AMTN programme and issuances, US private placement and syndicated and bilateral bank facilities
• Lendlease in relation to its Singapore dollar perpetual subordinated securities as well as its Australian dollar perpetual subordinated securities (which are classified as equity for Australian accounting and debt purposes with distributions expected to be fully franked)
• ISPT Pty Ltd (now IFM Investors) on the restructure of A$2.8 billion in bank facilities to sustainability linked loan facilities for ISPT’s flagship fund, the ISPT Core Fund
• AusNet in relation to its $1.1 billion subordinated notes issuance. The notes have a 30-year maturity, a 10-year non-call period and include the option for AusNet to defer interest payments
Background
Amy holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne. Amy is admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
