Nabila Prata Dos Santos
Nabila focuses on corporate and acquisition finance, real estate finance and debt capital markets transactions.
Nabila has experience advising borrowers, lenders, issuers and dealers in a broad range of financial transactions across an array of industries. Nabila provides clients with advice relating to corporate financings including syndicated, club and bilateral loan facilities on a secured and unsecured basis, property financings, and debt capital market transactions in the Australian domestic market, European markets and US private placement market. Her work primarily supports large corporate treasury clients across the energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors.
In addition to her technical experience, Nabila completed a successful secondment in 2025 at Victoria Power Networks, United Energy and Australian Energy Operations, where she gained valuable in-house experience supporting the group on a range of projects, including project financings (such as the financing of Australia’s largest synchronous condenser at the Ararat Terminal Station), refinancing of debt facilities, debt capital market issuances, and the preparation of Victoria Power Networks’ Sustainable Financing Framework.
Clients appreciate Nabila for her technical excellence and ability to efficiently drive a transaction, with a client recently crediting Nabila as providing “impeccable support”.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Victoria Power Networks, in relation to its EUR 5 billion EMTN programme and multiple syndicated note issues under the programme (including its first green issuance which was awarded Australian Sustainability Bond Deal of the Year by KangaNews)
- Melbourne Airport, in relation to its EUR 5 billion EMTN programme and multiple note issues and its syndicated and bilateral bank facilities
- Advising borrowers and lenders on numerous syndicated, bilateral and club financings, including for Victoria Power Networks, United Energy, Melbourne Airport, Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Cotton On, WesTrac and Baby Bunting
- Advising developers and social and affordable housing providers, in relation to various property developments and HAFF funded projects across Australia
- The dealers in relation to the establishment of billion dollar AMTN programmes issued by Lloyds Bank, one of the UK’s largest retail and commercial financial services providers
Background
Nabila is originally from Brazil and moved to Melbourne in 2012. She graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Laws and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia.
