Zac Kedgley-Foot

Zac is a specialist banking and finance lawyer, experienced in advising on a broad range of banking, debt capital markets and derivatives transactions and financial services regulation.

Zac is a senior associate in Bell Gully's market-leading financial services team. He advises on domestic and international banking and capital markets transactions including structured, acquisition, infrastructure, project, corporate and leveraged financings and on the regulation of financial products, services and markets in New Zealand.​

Zac returned to Bell Gully in early 2021, following stints at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York and Allens Linklaters in Sydney (with a secondment to Linklaters London). ​During his time at Allens, he advised on a number of high profile infrastructure acquisitions including advising Global Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of a minority stake from Shell in the Queensland Curtis LNG Common Facilities for AU$3.3bn and First State Super (now Aware Super) on the financing for its AU$2.86bn acquisition of a concession to operate the Victorian Land Registry Service.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 recommend Zac for banking and finance in New Zealand. Clients say "Zac Kedgley-Foot has provided high quality support as he worked through structuring issues on the debt facilities, providing commercial & sound advice to achieve successful outcomes and ensuring things are turned around as efficiently as possible."

In 2016, Zac graduated from the New York University School of Law with a Master of Laws. He was a Dean's Graduate Award Scholar as well as an International Finance and Development Fellow.

During his previous time at Bell Gully, Zac advised a number of the firm's key clients including Contact Energy and the New Zealand Government on the IPO of Meridian Energy.​