Charles McConnell

Charles' experience includes advising:

• The lenders on a holding-company level financing to Advance Intelligence Group Limited. Advance Intelligence Group Limited is one of Asia's leading AI-powered digital financial services company.
• The national oil company of Papua New Guinea, Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (as borrower) on an LNG and condensate prepayment financing with Chevron USA Inc.
• A global investment company as a key investor and one of the lenders in the senior and mezzanine term loan facilities granted to a leading suppliers of value-added food products in New Zealand and Australia.
• An Asian investment firm on a distressed refinancing for one of the largest private speciality health care group in Australia, focused on mental health, rehabilitation, specialty medical and community services.
• Granite Asia and INA as lenders in a financing to Everland ASEAN Hospitality Limited to repay its existing indebtedness in respect of a portfolio of hotels, including two hotels located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The financing was secured by a portfolio of hotels in Indonesia and Vietnam.
• PT Bank UOB Indonesia and PT Bank Maybank Indonesia Tbk. as arrangers in a green term loan facility to finance the acquisition by a Hillhouse portfolio entity of three Indonesian warehouse assets from a fund managed by ESR Group. The acquisition is the investment platform's maiden acquisition in Indonesia and a milestone in the platform's foray into Southeast Asia.
• United Overseas Bank on the US$400 million dual-tranche syndicated secured term loan financing to BW Industrial Development Joint Stock Company, an industrial warehouse provider majority owned by Warburg Pincus. The deal has been awarded Best Structured Finance by The Asset Triple A 2025.
• An Asian-based fund manager and privately-owned US investment firm in relation to the senior secured financing made available to a SPV sponsored by a global private equity firm to refinance its existing indebtedness in relation to an underlying Indonesian shopping mall group.
• A leading Philippine bank in respect of margin financing of shares in an Indonesian listed consumer group.
• An international investment bank on a Vietnamese debt for equity swap.
• A private equity sponsor on the restructuring and refinancing of educational assets in Singapore and the PRC.
• The mandated lead arranger and original lender on a US$125 million senior term loan facility with an additional US$125 million accordion facility and related exchangeable loans provided to an industrial and logistics real estate developer in Vietnam.
• Various international investment banks in a margin loan to a global private equity firm for investment in bonds issued by a Vietnamese company in the consumer sector.
• An international investment bank in respect of back leverage to a global private equity firm for investment in various bonds issued by a Vietnamese real estate group.
• An international investment bank in respect of financing to a global private equity firm for its acquisition of an interest in a Vietnamese schools business.
• A leading Philippine bank in a margin financing to a global private equity firm against shares of a clean and renewable power company in the Philippines.
• An international investment bank in a secured margin financing to the shareholder of an Indonesian copper and gold mining company.
• The arranger on back-leverage on a minority stake acquisition of Philippines medical assets by a private equity sponsor.
• Michelin on the restructuring of Indonesian's first green bond issuance.
• The lenders in a term facility and a revolving credit facility amounting up to US$790 million granted to IBC Capital Limited, Goodpack IBC (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and Goodpack Pte. Ltd., a KKR portfolio company.
• A global investment banking group in the PKPU (Indonesian insolvency process) of an Indonesian textile group and related security enforcement and the restructuring of a financing with an Indonesian individual.
• A global investment bank as lender to borrower, Near, a SaaS platform that offers a source of advertising intelligence and its subsequent restructuring and repayment.
• RRJ Capital on its recapitalization buy-out merger of Singapore-based Fullerton Healthcare Corporation Limited.
• UTICO FZC, UAE's leading private water and power utility provider, in the approximately US$3 billion restructuring of the Hyflux group, a Singapore water and power conglomerate listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
• The banks and credit funds on the refinancing of a sponsor backed acquisition financing of a Vietnamese integrated hotel and casino.