Rebecca Finkelstein specialises in infrastructure and natural resources project development (including by way of PPP, privatisation or private acquisition) and financing.
Rebecca has been recognised in the Australian Best Lawyers list for 2026 in the category of “Project Finance and Development Practice”, “Banking and Finance Law”, "Construction/Infrastructure Law” and "Health and Aged Care Law", and as a “Notable Practitioner” in the IFLR1000 rankings for “Banking and finance”, “Project finance” and “Real Estate finance”.
Rebecca's recent work highlights include:
- Endeavour Energy on the Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone project
- Queensland Airports on its financing arrangements
- Northern Territory Government on the Sun Cable Project
- DIF and Macquarie on their exit from the Kwinana Waste to Energy Project
- Sydney Transport Partners consortium on taking full ownership of WestConnex (with an enterprise value of $33b) following the original 51% acquisition
- Iberdrola Australia (previously Infigen Energy) on its financing arrangements
- EMR Capital and Golden Energy and Resources Limited consortium on the financing aspects of the acquisition of the Ravenswood Gold Mine in Queensland, and advising Ravenswood on its ongoing financing arrangements
- Taurus Mining Finance Fund on matters like the project financing of the Abra Base Metals Project and the senior financing of Bowen Coking Coal, and advising the Taurus Royalty Fund on royalties across a variety of commodities
