Practice Experience
Jane Huston is an associate in our Banking, Capital Markets and Restructuring group in Asia. Jane has experience in advising clients on banking, structured finance and securities transactions throughout Asia.
Jane has previously worked for two leading US law firms in Singapore and two leading Australian law firms in Sydney.
Examples of Jane's experience include advising:
- China Development Bank Corporation (CDB) as arranger, original lender, facility agent and security trustee, in the US$56 million acquisition financing provided to an Australian subsidiary of a leading Chinese state-owned energy services provider to acquire an interest in an Australian unincorporated joint venture formed to develop a coal mine in New South Wales.
- Deutsche Bank AG as arranger of a US$85 million structured financing for a solar energy production project in China.
- Deutsche Bank AG as arranger of a US$60 million acquisition financing for the acquisition of an interest in a synthetic products producer in China.
- Farallon Capital Management in connection with a US$50 million hybrid bridge financing to an investment fund for investing in a leading Chinese IT education provider.
- PT Chandra Asri, an Indonesian petrochemical company, on their US$200 million facility agreement arranged by DBS Bank Limited, Standard Chartered Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. The transaction also involved the subordination of an existing shareholder facility agreement and a security sharing arrangement between the two facilities.
- Sampoerna Strategic on a US$100 million secured loan to be made to a Singapore investment vehicle of the company. The loan proceeds were used to acquire the shares in PT Selapan Jaya, a major palm oil producer in Sumatera.
- IndoCoal Exports (Cayman) Limited, a special purpose vehicle, PT Bumi Tbk. and three of its subsidiaries (KPC, Arutmin and IndoCoal Resources (Cayman) Limited) in the US$900 million fixed rate notes issued by IndoCoal under a modification of its structured export notes (SENs) program established in 2005. The SENs are backed by existing and future coal sale receivables of the Bumi Resources subsidiaries. The transaction is the largest Asian private placement to date and was awarded "SE Asia Structured Finance & Securitization Deal of the Year" for 2006 by Asian Legal Business.
- Indocoal Exports (Cayman) Limited (IndoCoal), PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) and PT Arutmin Indonesia (Arutmin) in the US$600 million future flows backed securitization involving the sale of receivables by KPC and Arutmin to IndoCoal and the issuance of Rule 144A/Regulation S structured export notes backed by such receivables. This transaction involved the sale of all export receivables generated from sales of coal. A number of novel issues of Indonesian law were addressed including issues relating to the Coal Contract of Work and Indonesian bankruptcy law. This transaction was the first cross-border securitization and first investment-grade bond deal out of Indonesia since 1997, the stand-out deal of the year in the ABS market and was recognized as "Securitization Deal of the Year" at the IFLR Asia Awards 2006.
- The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as trustee borrower in connection with the US$884 million Fujian Tranche financing of the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia.
Bars and Courts
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2010
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia, 2010
Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2001
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, 2000
Education
LLM, Honours, First Class, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2000 LLB, University of Canterbury, 1999 BCom, University of Canterbury, 1999
Professional Associations and Memberships
Law Society of New South Wales Law Society of England and Wales
Languages
English
Citizenship
New Zealand Australia
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