Miles Wadley
Miles specialises in infrastructure and energy financing, including for power and transmission projects, digital infrastructure, PPPs and social infrastructure.
Miles specialises in project finance but has had a broad-ranging career across a variety of infrastructure and related transactions. He has significant international experience, having worked in New York with Babcock & Brown and the Freehills NY office.
Through his experience on the client side (Babcock & Brown and secondments with AustralianSuper and Transurban), he has perspective on what clients want and how their lawyers can help. He is experienced in acting for project sponsors and financiers and uses this experience to drive the parties to a position that is commercially acceptable for both sides.
Miles is quick to understand complex issues and can produce creative solutions that are commercially workable for lenders and borrowers.
Miles has expertise in all aspect of project finance and corporate finance documentation, security law, financing structures, complex derivative structures and documentation as well as significant experience with project documents such as Project/Concession Agreements, EPC and O&M contracts and PPAs. He is an expert in greenfield transactions, acquisitions and refinancings.
Background
Miles holds both a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree and a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) degree from the University of Melbourne. Miles is admitted to practice in Australia and New York.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- HMC Capital on its financing for its acquisition of Neoen’s Victorian renewable assets
- Financiers on a portfolio financing for Community Housing Limited in relation to its Queensland Housing Investment Fund-backed projects
- BBGI in its refinancing of the Northern Territory Secure Facilities PPP Project in Darwin
- the financiers to the largest Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Australia, and the first PPP in the market to feature Alliance contracting principles; the A$11.1 billion North-East Link PPP in Victoria
- lenders to Waveconn, the OMERS-owned company in its acquisition of the TPG towers business, and bids for the Optus/ATN and Axicom towers businesses
- APG in its $2 billion acquisition and subsequent refinancing of a 16.8% stake in Ausgrid
- renewables project financings and refinancings such as Wattle Point Wind Farm, Bald Hills Wind Farm, Ararat Wind Farm, Oakey & Longreach Solar Farms, Metz Solar Farm, Mt Mercer Wind Farm, Mt Millar Wind Farm, Biala Wind Farm, Waipipi Wind Farm, and Dundonnell Wind Farm
