Phone: +61 7 31528610
Mobile: 0439 711 719
Email: michael@hobsonlegal.com.au
Michael has over 20 years’ experience in banking and finance, corporate, commercial and property law.
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (admitted 2001)
- Recognised in Best Lawyers in Australia (2021) in the area of banking and finance law
- Listed as a recommended lawyer for banking and finance in the Asia Pacific Legal 500, described as a lawyer ‘who impresses with his knowledge and ability to focus’
- Member of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association
- Member of the Queensland Law Society and currently serves on the QLS Banking and Financial Services Committee
EXPERIENCE
Michael’s experience includes:
- Lending structures including combinations of senior debt, private equity and mezzanine debt
- Syndications, participations, club loans and other complex inter-creditor arrangements
- Industries including commercial property and property development , energy and resources, financial services and agribusiness
- Restructures, secured recoveries, receiverships and mortgagee sales
- Mortgagee’s and receiver’s duties under the Corporations Act and the Property Law Act
- Negotiating asset management agreements, sale agreements and joint venture development agreements
- Regulatory and compliance issues including:
- National Consumer Credit Protection Act
- Personal Property Securities Act
- Banking Code of Practice
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act
- Privacy Act
- Preparing NCCPA compliant documents and manuals as well other standard form documentation for use by short term lenders, receivables financiers and other boutique financiers.
