Stuart Thomas
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Work Department
Banking, private equity.
Position
Stuart co-heads Linklaters’ mainstream banking practice. He acts on a broad range of banking and finance transactions, representing both lenders and borrowers. His experience includes acquisition finance; syndicated and bilateral banking facilities; loans to funds, margin loans and other secured and structured financings. Recent transactions include $40bn facilities for Rio Tinto for its acquisition of Alcan; €1bn facilities for Swiss Life for its offer for AWD; $24bn facilities for Rosneft; €4bn facilities for Babcock & Brown for its acquisition of eircom plc; and acting for Vodafone on various bank financings.
Career
Associate Bristows Cooke & Carpmael, London 1989-92; associate Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne 1992-95; associate Linklaters, London 1995-2001; partner Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler, Frankfurt 2001-04; partner Linklaters, London 2004.
Education
University of Adelaide (1986 LLB Hons); University of South Australia (1986 Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice).
Practice Areas
Banking (non-contentious); Litigation - banking; Private equity
