Andrew Shearer-Smith

Partner

Telephone:
07 3239 2915
Email:
andrew.shearer-smith@mcmahonclarke.com

Experience: Andrew is a partner of McMahon Clarke Legal, and specialises in establishing and raising debt and equity finance for property funds, property securities funds, property development funds and mezzanine debt syndicates. Andrew provides a full range of services to fund managers acquiring or lending against property assets, including:

• Advice on the structuring of all forms of property funds whether they be registered or unregistered, fixed term or open ended, listed or unlisted, and the licensing implications for property fund promoters.
   
• The preparation of product disclosure statements and information memoranda used to raise equity from both wholesale and retail investors.
   
• Listing property funds on the Australian Securities Exchange and providing associated advice in relation to the ASX Listing Rules.
   
• Acting for fund managers, as borrowers, in relation to negotiating and coordinating the senior and mezzanine debt facilities used with subscribed equity to fund the acquisition of property investments.
   
• Acting for fund managers, as lenders of mezzanine debt, by drafting and negotiating the finance documents used for the provision of mezzanine debt to property developers.

Expertise:  Click here for examples of the funds management team's recent work.

Professional Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma Applied Finance and Investment.