Infrastructure
Shaun McGushin
Partner, Sydney
Phone +61 2 9225 5340
Fax +61 2 9322 4000
shaun.mcgushin@freehills.com
Partner, Sydney
Phone +61 2 9225 5340
Fax +61 2 9322 4000
shaun.mcgushin@freehills.com
Current practice
Shaun has had extensive experience in infrastructure projects, PPPs and project/structured financings and across a number of industries and areas. He has acted for sponsors, consortiums, government bodies, financial institutions, investment banks and equity.Industry experience
Infrastructure/PPP/Project finance experience
Recent and current transactions Shaun has worked on include:
- advising ABN AMRO and Leighton consortium on the acquisition of the Sydney CrossCity Tunnel
- advising United Goninan/Mitsubishi consortium for the NSW Rolling Stock PPP
- advising Macquarie Bank/Macquarie Korea Opportunities Fund on the acquisition of power and water assets in Korea
- advising the Macquarie Bank/John Laing consortium for the Singapore Sports Hub PPP
- advising the GEAC consortium and Loy Yang Power on the Loy Yang A restructuring and refinancing
- advising the AGL/Petronas consortium on the PNG Australia Pipeline project
- advising the lenders in the project financing of the Dampier to Bunbury National Gas Pipeline acquisition
- advising the AGL/CBA/TEPCO consortium in the acquisition of Loy Yang A power station
- advising the China Construction Bank in structuring and financing CKI’s interest in the Sydney CrossCity Tunnel
- advising the consortium for the Berwick Hospital PPP, ultimately unsuccessful
- advising the sponsor for the Defence HQ PPP, ultimately unsuccessful
- advising the Macquarie Bank-led consortium for proposed sewerage infrastructure projects throughout Australia
- advising ANZ and the other lenders in the project financing of Tarong North Power Station, and
- advising Toronto Dominion and the syndicate of lenders in the Smithfield Cogeneration Power Station project financing, including infrastructure borrowings and restructure.
Structured finance experience
Transactions Shaun has worked on include:- advising John Fairfax Group in structuring and financing the acquisition of INL newspapers in New Zealand
- advising Melbourne Transport Enterprises/CGEA Connex in relation to the Hillside Train franchise in Victoria
- advising Banque National de Paris in the $110 million Boral Australia-wide motor vehicle lease facility, and
- advising New South Wales Treasury Corporation/Prospect Electricity in relation to the cross border financing of electricity assets and their proposed restructuring.
