ANZ Specialised Finance

Structured Asset Finance involves the provision of structured funding solutions for the purchase of depreciable business assets. These solutions include:

• Finance leases.
• Operating leases.
• Secured loans.
• Lease receivable financings.
• Asset-backed loans.
• Off-balance sheet financings.

Structured Export Finance involves the provision of finance solutions that incorporate Export Credit Agency (ECA) including New Zealand Export Credit Office (ECO) support for customers that are exporting or importing capital equipment and associated services. It delivers the most value for customers and countries with a credit rating where the ECA credit enhancement may provide a benefit.

Structured Trade Finance (STF) is a specialised activity dedicated to the financing of domestic and international commodity flows and can be used to finance short-term working capital or long-term capital expenditure of up to 5 years.  These solutions include:

• Warehouse financing.
• Borrowing base financing.
• Tolling finance.
• Pre-export finance.
• Prepayment finance.

Project and Structured Finance is a specialised lending product which utilises a series of cash flows from an asset or group of assets to support a long-term debt structure. The project financing product can provide substantial tenor and gearing benefits and is applicable to sectors such as:

• Infrastructure.
• Energy.
• PPPs.

LAF provides specialists skills for structuring and executing ‘Event Driven’ transactions such as:

• Mergers and acquisitions.
• Management buyouts.
• Succession planning.
• Retirement of major shareholders.
• Business underperformance.
• Return of capital.

LAF is the centre of excellence for:

• Acquisition and complex debt structuring.
• Due diligence and risk assessment.
• Cashflow analysis, financial modelling and sensitivity analysis.
• Subordinated debt, Shareholder and Vendor Loan Intercreditor rights.
• Ongoing credit and portfolio management of event driven transactions for non-investment grade clients.

Our Loan Syndications team specialises in arranging, structuring, underwriting and distributing syndicated loans to banks and investors on behalf of borrowers seeking to raise capital. Our team has a global debt distribution capability which includes a total of twenty nine syndication specialists based in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Shanghai.

The Agency team is very experienced in managing multi banked facilities and have also lead a number of complex workouts. The team act as a conduit between the syndicate lenders and the customer; managing and co-ordinating the ongoing operation of the syndicated facilities.