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Global strengthens Sydney team

A global law firm has announced it has bolstered its Sydney presence with the appointment of a new partner to its finance team.

user iconEmma Musgrave 31 August 2017 Big Law
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K&L Gates has welcomed Richard Gray as partner in its Sydney office, who joins from HWL Ebsworth.

Mr Gray brings with him more than 30 years’ experience working as a finance lawyer in Australia, with a particular focus in various forms of secured and unsecured financings, including project and infrastructure finance, structured financings of property assets, securitisation, syndication, and tax-based and cross-border structures, according to a statement from K&L Gates.

Throughout his career, he has also advised on lending, swaps, major workouts, and European, US and domestic note issues and programs.

Over the years, Mr Gray has built up a significant client base, which includes lenders, borrowers and arrangers across a broad range of sectors, such as property, government, resources, infrastructure, energy, transport, innovation, funds management, hotels and finance.

“Richard’s addition, along with the recent appointment of special counsel Eric Boone, broadens and diversifies K&L Gates’ banking and finance capabilities in Australia and around the globe,” said Nick Nichola, K&L Gates’ managing partner, Australia.

“Their front-end finance experience and knowledge nicely complement our existing finance capabilities and will provide benefit to clients regardless of their business life cycle stage.

“We are excited to welcome Richard to the firm.”

Commenting on his new role, Mr Gray said: “One of my main attractions to K&L Gates was the firm’s fully integrated global platform, which will help me deliver new sources of financing to clients”.

“I’m excited by the opportunity to help my colleagues further build K&L Gates’ finance offering,” he said.

Emma Musgrave

Emma Musgrave

Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.

Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences. 

Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.

She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University. 

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