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.
• UOB as mandated lead arranger and original lender in respect of the up to US$400 million senior secured facilities provided to a Vietnamese industrial warehouse provider owned by Warburg Pincus, to refinance the borrower's existing facilities.
• 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.