Senior Associate, Auckland
Matthew Triggs

Contact
- Auckland office
- DDI +64 9 357 9399
- M +64 21 160 0071
Profile
Matthew has over twenty years experience in transactional finance law with a practice concentrating on syndicated and bilateral secured lending transactions with a particular focus on property development finance, hotel finance (development and acquisition) and ETS carbon forest finance transactions.
He advises domestic and international banks and corporate borrowers on bilateral and multi-lateral facilities (syndicated and club arrangements) including advice on structuring and implementing finance arrangements in relation to carbon forests and the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme.
He also has significant experience in NZ insolvency, debt restructuring and security enforcement transactions and advises receivers, administrators, liquidators and lenders on insolvency and security realisation transactions.
Experience
Work highlights
Advising RF Corval Group
on its acquisition and development of the Sherwood Hotel, Queenstown
Advising the respective lenders
in their funding of the Eastland Group and the Eastland Generation groups of companies
Advising Bank of New Zealand
in respect of multiple carbon forest ETS finance transactions with New Zealand Carbon Farming group
Advising Bank of New Zealand
in respect of a carbon forest ETS finance transaction with NZ Timber limited partnership
Advising Bank of New Zealand
in respect of a carbon forest ETS and agri finance transaction with NZ Pastures limited partnership
Advising syndicate lenders
in two parallel syndicated lending structures on refinance for Eastland Group – generation assets syndicate and residual assets syndicate