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Ian Lockhart has industry-leading credentials and expertise in the highly specialised areas of corporate finance and regulatory and compliance law. Acting for Australian and foreign banks, credit unions, government and listed entities, Ian’s regulatory advisory practice spans consumer credit, privacy, anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing. As a specialised corporate finance expert, Ian is also a leading practitioner in corporate syndicated lending, acquisition and leveraged finance, debt reconstruction and loan renegotiation, with particular expertise in retirement village funding.
He is a long-standing advisor to both public and private sector clients, amongst them Australia’s ‘big four’ major banks and major corporate borrowers.Ian is a regular speaker, author and media commentator on wide-ranging regulatory, compliance and credit policy issues affecting financiers and borrowers as well as regulators.
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A leading advisor in specialist corporate finance, Ian’s expertise spans syndicated and club lending and acquisition, leveraged finance for senior lenders as well as debt reconstruction and loan renegotiation. Ian has particular skill in the financing and acquisition of retirement villages. His considerable industry insight also draws upon hands-on experience gained in secondments to a major Australian and leading foreign bank trading in Australia.
Focused on banking and finance law, Ian advises both public and private sector clients on specialist compliance issues principally in privacy and credit, consumer credit regulation, anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing. Ian’s diverse client base encompasses leading industry players. He provides ongoing guidance on debt restructuring for the CFLI group and, most recently, acted for Suncorp and BMW Finance on regulatory and compliance code matters. Ian's interest in consumer credit began with a secondment to Fiji at the time when Fiji introduced its consumer credit legislation which was based on Australia's Uniform Consumer Credit Code. Ian took a leading role in assisting one of Fiji's largest consumer lenders prepare for the commencement of that legislation.