Jane Innes-Jones
Chris Harker
Brendan Brown
Simon Horner
Laurie Mayne
Daniel Meikle
Mei Nah
Matthew Olsen
Cameron Peachey
Michael Pritchard
Will Tipping
Dave Wetherell

Jane Innes-Jones

Counsel since 2023

Areas of expertise.

  • Banking & Finance
  • Special Situations & Restructuring

Qualifications.

LLB (Hons), BCom, University of Auckland

International experience.
Olswang LLP (London) 2011 – 2012

Contact.

ddi: +64 9 921 6012
mob: +64 21 0835 0365

Overview.

Jane has extensive experience acting for domestic and foreign lenders and borrowers across a range of banking and finance transactions.  She has specialist knowledge of syndicated and club lending structures and is recognised for her experience in restructuring and insolvency matters.

Recent Experience.

  • Jane has a unique understanding of lender credit requirements having spent time first in a loan execution role for a major New Zealand trading bank, responsible for arranging and structuring loans across its institutional and corporate loan book (including Sustainability-Linked Loans), and most recently as head of its Syndications and Agency business.
  • Acting for the senior lenders on the restructuring of state-owned enterprise Solid Energy.
  • Acting for the voluntary administrators of New Zealand’s first major voluntary administration (owed creditors c. NZ$20million) and the first New Zealand voluntary administration to implement a going concern deed of company arrangement.
  • Acting for the receivers of Bridgecorp Finance (at the time the largest receivership of a financial institution in New Zealand for almost 20 years (c.$450m)).
  • Acting for various finance companies implementing moratoriums during the GFC.