David Weavers

David has years of experience advising financial institutions, private equity sponsors, corporates, non-bank lenders and sovereigns on a wide range of financing and restructuring transactions. David is a specialist in corporate and acquisition finance, project finance, property finance, debt capital markets, derivatives, venture capital and special situations investing. David has experience advising on all aspects of financial services regulation and providing strategic board-level advice.

Having been based in London and Hong Kong for an extended period with leading New York firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, David brings an international perspective to his practice and commitment to client service, together with a deep network and knowledge of market trends and developments.

David has successfully completed all three levels of examinations for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) programme.

David has worked on a number of landmark transactions including: for Greece on its €206bn debt restructuring, for CVC on the first European LBO and dividend-recapitalisation using US-style covenant-lite financing terms, and for HNA on the financing for its US$6.5bn acquisition of a stake in Hilton from Blackstone. David has advised Goldman Sachs (Special Situations Group), TPG Special Situations Partners (including TPG's direct-lending platform) and Hillhouse Capital (China's largest private equity sponsor) on a number of transactions across the capital structure.

He has spent extended periods on secondment to banks and funds in a variety of legal and non-legal roles.

David is the firm's representative on the New Zealand APLMA documentation committee and has experience presenting at industry-wide events.