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  • Nicholas Creed

    Partner
    Perth
    T: +61 8 9269 7113
    M: +61 409 225 003
 

 Professional Biography

 

  • Nicholas Creed is a partner in our Perth office where he assists clients in the financing of resources, oil and gas and infrastructure projects, telecommunications, property and general corporate finance, corporate treasury activities and public / private partnerships.

    Nicholas has 15 years' experience in acting on significant, keynote transactions including those nominated as deals of the year by IFLR Asia and Australasian Legal Business.

    He has published articles on smart cards, electronic banking, financial services reform and conflicts of laws in international trade finance. He has assisted in teaching finance subjects at Monash University and in the Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre's Masters of Applied Finance Program.

    In the late 1990s, Nicholas worked on secondment in the Banking and Capital Markets Group in the London office of international law firm Simmons & Simmons. He has also worked in Melbourne, Sydney and Hong Kong.
 

 Experience

 
  • 1991: Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
  • 1992 - 1997: Articled Clerk and Solicitor, Banking & Finance, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne
  • 1997 - 1998: Senior Assistant Solicitor, Banking and Capital Markets, Simmons & Simmons, London
  • 1998 - 2002: Senior Associate, financial services clients, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne
  • 2002 - 2004: Partner, financial services clients, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Melbourne
  • 2004 - Present: Partner, financial services clients, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Perth
  • Nicholas was recommended as a leading individual in the area of project finance by the 2002-2003 Chambers Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers.
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • US$1.2 billion Karara iron ore project financing (winner of the Asian-Counsel's Deals of the Year 2010 and the Australian Legal Business Project Finance Deal of the Year 2011)
  • China Eximbank - Sinosteel/Midwest Financing (Winner of IFLR Asia 2009 M&A Deal of the Year and China Law and Practice 2009 M&A Deal of the Year) - Mallesons acted for China Eximbank in connection with the financing of China's Sinosteel Corporation's US$1.3 billion successful bid for Australian iron ore miner Midwest Corporation
  • BankWest, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Mizuho Corporate Bank as financiers to the Great Southern Plantations Group
  • Westpac Institutional Bank and ABN AMRO Bank as arrangers of Iluka Resources Limited's $500 million syndicated term and working capital facilities
  • ARC Energy - financing of acquisition of an interest in the Wandoo, Cliff Head (WA) and BassGas (Vic) oil and gas assets
  • Westpac - acquisition and corporate finance facilities to the iiNet Limited Group
  • Macquarie Bank - financing and hedging facilities to Croesus Mining and subsequent administration (nominated for ALB Magazine's Insolvency and Restructuring Deal of the Year 2008)
  • BOS International, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Westpac as project financiers of Aztec Resources Limited's Koolan Island iron ore mine development
  • Macquarie Bank - project financier and hedge provider for Copperco's Lady Annie copper mine project in Queensland
  • BOS International as financier to Aurora Oil and Gas Limited's Corpus Christi (Texas, USA) gas field development
  • Commonwealth Bank and other corporate financiers to the Clough Group
  • National Australia Bank as financier in the Aspen group of property based managed investment schemes
  • Bidding consortia for the Perth CBD Courts Public Private Partnership and Mindarie Regional Council Resource Recovery Project in Perth, for the Southbank Education and Training Precinct PPP in Brisbane and for the Coastwatch Civil Maritime Surveillance PPP with the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Telstra Corporation - A$550 million structured financing for the FOXTEL digital TV rollout
  • Telstra Corporation - initial financing, renegotiations and subsequent acquisition by Telstra and PCCW of the US$1.5 billion financing for Reach Finance, (winner of IT / Telco deal of the year at the 2006 Australian Legal Business Australasian Law Awards and shortlisted for Restructuring Deal of the Year at the IFLR Asian Awards 2005)
 

 Professional Memberships

 
  • Law Institute of Victoria
  • Law Society of WA
  • Law Council of Australia
  • Banking and Financial Services Law Association
  • WA Ambassador for Opportunity International
  • Financial Services Committee, Law Council of Australia
  • Finance and Treasury Association
  • Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association