Practical Law Practice Areas

Banking and Finance

Practical Law is here to help with practice notes, checklists, standard documents and clauses that mirror legal problems faced by banking and finance lawyers.

Why Practical Law Banking and Finance?

Breakdown complex legal issues 

Whether you're seeking expert guidance on the Personal Property Securities Act, loan documentation or the rules governing set-off, rely on our practice notes to provide practical navigation through legal problems.

Reap the cost efficiencies

Spend less time researching and incorporating detailed legal developments with our comprehensive suite of up-to-date standard and ancillary documents and clauses, accompanied by detailed drafting notes.

Get the detail right 

Comply with complex legal and statutory requirements and keep abreast of market practice knowing that your resources have been created and maintained by specialists with extensive prior legal experience.

Empower your team 

Provide your legal staff with solutions-based practice notes to guide them through unfamiliar banking and finance issues, and free senior lawyers to focus on high-value legal work and business development.

Meet our Banking and Finance experts

Alex Chernishev

Alex Chernishev

Head of Banking and Finance

Alex has more than 12 years' banking and finance experience at leading international and domestic firms in Australia and the United Kingdom, including Clayton Utz and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Alex has extensive experience in a wide range of banking and finance transactions including corporate finance, project finance, debt capital markets, securitisation and derivatives.

Philip Gledson

Philip Gledson

Senior Lawyer Writer

Philip has almost 20 years of legal experience, having spent the first decade of his career at leading international law firms in England and Australia working on high value complex banking transactions, typically with a cross -border element. While his private practice career primarily covered acquisition finance, Phil also has extensive experience in general corporate lending, structured finance, Islamic finance, property finance, and restructurings, acting for both financiers and borrowers. Since 2015 Phil has been a practicing barrister at the New South Wales Bar where he maintains a varied practice providing advice and advocacy on a range of contractual and other disputes, including disputes arising out of lending and security transactions.

Our Banking and Finance team has you covered

Lending and security

  • Guarantees and indemnities 
  • Legal opinions 
  • Lending: bilateral and general 
  • Lending: syndicated 
  • Letters of credit and performance bonds 
  • Security Set-off and netting 
  • Subordination, priority and intercreditor

Specialist transactions

  • Acquisition finance 
  • Aged care finance 
  • Commercial real estate finance 
  • Debt capital markets 
  • Derivatives 
  • ESG and sustainable finance 
  • Retirement village finance 
  • Securitisation and structured finance 

Contracts

  • Execution formalities 
  • General contracts and boilerplate 
  • Contract law 

Global practice areas

  • Finance & Financial Regulation

Global guides

  • Banking Regulation 
  • Capital Markets: Debt 
  • Finance 
  • Restructuring and Insolvency