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Feature: The new financing environment – mezzanine debt financing
Published on 01 Nov 08 by "TAXATION IN AUSTRALIA" JOURNAL ARTICLE
The global credit crisis has significantly changed the market for funding private equity firms. This has caused many investors to turn to mezzanine financing to enhance their equity returns and fill the funding gap while supplementing more traditional senior and subordinated debt. The returns on mezzanine financing provide an appealing alternative to a range of investors in the current financial conditions.
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Ian Scott CTA
Ian is the Ernst & Young Transaction Tax joint practice leader for Oceania. Ian has over 15 years experience in providing Australian and international corporate taxation advice, with a focus on large-scale due diligence and merger and acquisition activity. Ian advises several high-profile multi-national companies on multi-jurisdictional acquisitions, corporate actions and cross-border financing transactions. He also advises several privately-owned high net wealth enterprises and has been a key adviser on many tax due diligence and tax structuring team engagements for large Australian domestic and international enterprises - Current at 17 February 2011Bryan ZEKULICH
Transaction Advisory Partner, Ernst & YoungCurrent at November 2008