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Nikki Smythe

Nikki Smythe

Clifford Chance, Australia

Work Department

Global Financial Markets

Position

Nikki is a finance and restructuring practitioner with extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border financing, debt restructuring and insolvency transactions. Nikki acts for private credit funds, private equity funds, alternative investment funds, corporates, investment banks and other financial institutions on a broad range of financing, restructuring & insolvency matters including special situations lending, structured finance, complex real estate financing transactions, securitisation, rescue finance and restructurings, and distressed loan portfolio sales.

Nikki is highly experienced across a broad range of financing products and across multiple sectors, including real estate, financial services, mining, mining services, aviation, logistics, tech and healthcare, and uses this experience to help clients find innovative and bespoke financing solutions that meet the needs of their specific situations.

Career

Admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2005

Herbert Smith Freehills, Partner (2018 – 2024)

Clifford Chance, Partner (2024 – present)

Memberships

Turnaround Management Association, 2024 Chair of the NSW Committee

Education

University of New South Wales, BA/LLB, 2004

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