{"id":312234,"date":"2025-11-27T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312234\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:21:55","slug":"baker-mckenzie-installs-new-project-finance-head-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312234\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker McKenzie installs new project finance head in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Baker-McKenzie-installs-new-project-finance-head-in-Australia.jpg\" data-caption=\"Miles Wadley, Baker McKenzie\u2019s partner in Melbourne and head of project finance practice in Australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Baker-McKenzie-installs-new-project-finance-head-in-Australia-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"Baker McKenzie Miles Wadley Project Finance\" title=\"Baker-McKenzie-installs-new-project-finance-head-in-Australia\"\/><\/a>Miles Wadley, Baker McKenzie\u2019s partner in Melbourne and head of project finance practice in Australia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baker McKenzie has hired Miles Wadley as a partner in Melbourne and head of its project finance practice in Australia to expand and strengthen the firm\u2019s national energy, banking and finance capabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wadley joined the firm from Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), where he was a partner for more than eight years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFrom renewable power plants, transmission assets, social and transport public-private partnerships, infrastructure privatisations and secondary market acquisitions, Miles [Wadley] regularly acts for sponsors, arrangers and financiers,\u201d Anne-Marie Allgrove, the national managing partner of Baker McKenzie\u2019s Australian offices, told Asia Business Law Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also said Wadley would provide a particular focus and expertise in infrastructure and power projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his previous role at HSF, Wadley led a team that acted for portfolio debt financiers in the retirement of a five-year, USD400 million debt facility between Tilt Renewables, an Australian electricity generation company, and Palisade, a global infrastructure and real assets manager. He also headed the team representing another syndicate in the financing of Tilt Renewables\u2019 new wind farm in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wadley\u2019s appointment follows a series of hires, including the addition of banking partners in Melbourne in July and Sydney in February, as well as an energy partner in Melbourne last October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miles Wadley, Baker McKenzie\u2019s partner in Melbourne and head of project finance practice in Australia Baker McKenzie has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[176863,64,63,176864,56691,41939,2572,176865,176866,4217,647,176867,1736,44,176868,176869,67634,63123,127487],"class_list":["post-312234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-anne-marie-allgrove","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baker-mckenzie","tag-banking-and-finance","tag-corporate-finance","tag-energy","tag-herbert-smith-freehills","tag-hsf","tag-infrastructure","tag-melbourne","tag-miles-wadley","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-palisade","tag-project-finance","tag-public-private-partnerships","tag-renewable-power","tag-tilt-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}