Frances Saggers

Frances Saggers | Senior Lawyer

• Business Law
• Banking and Finance Law

Email: fsaggers(at)ohallorandeal.com

Frances is a senior lawyer who has worked in private legal practice in Sydney, in the city of London, in Jakarta and in Singapore in a broad range of commercial, finance, derivatives, corporate finance and structured finance matters, including cross-border matters, acting for corporate clients, lending agencies and local and offshore banks. She worked in-house for over six years with a major Australian bank.

• advising banks in relation to and drafting facility agreements;
• acting for a real estate investment trust in relation to the secured financing of acquisition of commercial property;
• acting in relation to financing or restructuring in connection with a number of securitisations;
• acting in business sales and share purchases in connection with restructuring and divestment by multinational group;
• acting for private equity investors in relation to acquisition of shares;
• advising in relation to demand guarantees;
• drafting joint venture agreements;
• advising in relation to and drafting contract for sale of coal and related documentation;
• conducting legal due diligence in connection with proposed private equity investment and in relation to proposed purchase of business and real estate;
• advising financial institutions and real estate investment trust on ISDA documentation, advising in relation to credit default swap structures and mis-selling by financial institutions of a number of CDO (collateralised debt obligation) products.

She is admitted to practice as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and is registered in the High Court of Australia to practice as a solicitor in Federal Courts.

• Law Society of NSW
• Commercial Law Association of Australia

•  LLM, University of London
•  LLB, University of New South Wales