Corrs swoops on Blake Dawson and Freehills partners

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has appointed four new partners to its banking and finance team, adding significant industry weight to the practice group.

The new appointments include former Freehills partners Rommel Harding-Farrenberg and Shaun McGushin; former Blake Dawson partner Jeremy King and former Mallesons Stephen Jaques senior associate Henry Self. The hires are part of Corrs’ strategy to build and maintain market-leading practices in the areas of banking and finance, projects and energy and resources by 2015.

Harding-Farrenberg’s primary areas of expertise are project finance and major projects (particularly power generation assets, infrastructure and “hard rock” resource projects), corporate and structured finance, and debt capital markets and derivatives. Prior to Freehills, he worked at Slaughter and May in London for two and a half years.

McGushin also has extensive experience in all major forms of financing including corporate finance, project finance, structured and leveraged financing, onshore and offshore capital debt markets and related derivatives. He is also experienced in funding infrastructure projects, PPPs and utilities, particularly in the areas of power, resources, oil and gas, coal and transport.

King, who will remain in Melbourne, has experience in corporate and structured finance roles for bank clubs, syndicates and bilateral funding arrangements, project and PPP finance and restructuring and workouts. His experience includes two and a half years at Linklaters in London.

Self’s primary areas of expertise are property and development finance, property acquisitions, joint ventures and developments, corporate finance and project finance. During his career he spent four years with Denton Wilde Sapte, also in London.


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