Special Counsel, Auckland
Myles O'Brien
Contact
- Auckland office
- DDI +64 9 357 9855
- M +64 21 224 9855
Profile
Myles specialises in transactional banking and restructuring. He has extensive experience on corporate transactional banking and property finance and also advises financiers and insolvency practitioners on distressed debt solutions, workouts and enforcement of security and formal insolvencies.
Myles also assists BNZ, Kiwibank, ICBC and Bank of China with security enforcements in respect of land and personal property, workouts and recoveries from guarantors.
Myles has also assisted banks with major projects such Bank of New Zealand's response to the Christchurch earthquakes and, more recently, assisting the banking industry to develop funding solutions for customers in unit title developments facing building remediation issues.
Myles spent over five years on various secondments at BNZ working closely with a range of departments within BNZ. These secondments provided Myles with long-term first-hand experience of the issues that affect financial institutions, of how financial institutions function, and the interaction of various stakeholders within a financial institution.
- Member of RITANZ
Experience
Sector / Expertise
Work highlights
Acting for Bank of New Zealand
as secured creditor in relation to the development of Tauriko Business Estate in Tauranga
Acting for Bank of New Zealand
as secured creditor of 'The International' in voluntary administration and liquidation
Acting for Bank of New Zealand
as financier to the Sudima hotel management group
Acting for Bank of New Zealand
as secured creditor of Greys Avenue Investments and sale of 48 Greys Avenue, Auckland
Acting for Bank of New Zealand
as financier to the Classic Builders group
Acting as independent escrow agent for Body Corporates, unit owners and multiple banks
on debt funding for remediation of multi-unit title apartment properties with structural and other building failure issues