Commercial

David Baker – Commercial Principal

David is a transactional intermediary, often dealing with complex multi-stakeholder problem solving. This encompasses complex financing arrangements (structured debt, project finance, syndicated lending, public debt markets), complex project delivery across resources, property development and specialist facilities, negotiating novel risk sharing models for public, private infrastructure delivery and long term contractual engagements such as take or pay off-take agreements, often involving bank finance.

David is able to draw on this experience in any commercial negotiation with a sophisticated ability to anticipate and understand the needs of all stakeholders. David has worked on all sides of the table: he has represented the government and the governmental suitor; the investor and the investee; the borrower and the lender. He has been the client and the service provider.

David began his career as a banking and finance lawyer with a major Australian legal firm in Sydney and Singapore, gaining transactional experience in structured debt, cross border financing and general commercial work.  After transitioning to investment banking, David held leadership positions in global (Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank) and boutique (Gryphon Partners) banking and advisory companies.  He has deep expertise in structured debt, utility financing, project finance, complex multi-stakeholder transactions (PPP’s, BOO/BOOT) and mergers and acquisitions, primarily in the resources and infrastructure sectors. This transactional experience includes a number of heavily negotiated, complex, watershed transactions that required strong intermediation expertise and exacting process management skills.