Sebastien is a Managing Director and founded the Gresham Debt Advisory in 2016. He is currently Co-Head of Gresham Debt Advisory.
Sebastien has more than 20 years of banking and finance experience. He has led an extensive number of advisory engagements for a range of Australian and international companies across a wide range of industries including agriculture, general industrials, energy and infrastructure, property, resources, retail, and technology. These engagements have included advice on capital structure, credit ratings, debt and equity raisings, and restructurings.
Sebastien has advisory and arranging experience on transactions with a cumulative value of more than $100 billion, with experience in both domestic and international markets, advising on and arranging capital in: the bank market in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States; capital markets including the AMTN, EMTN, Reg.S, US144A (investment grade and high yield), Retail Note (senior and subordinated), Convertible Notes and Hybrids, and US Term Loan; and structured funding markets including project and asset financing.
Sebastien’s recent major capital advisory transactions include:
- Brickworks on its capital structure review and $1.2bn optimisation of its banking arrangements and borrowing platform
- Coles on its capital structure, credit ratings, and inaugural ~$4bn debt financing;
- Computershare on multiple financings in the bank and capital markets, domestically and internationally, in excess of US$5bn;
- ElectraNet on capital structure review and ~$1.0bn refinancing;
- Kelsian on its capital structure and multiple bank and acquisition financings, domestically and internationally, in excess of $4bn;
- Lendlease on the capital structure, credit ratings, and ~$1.4bn refinancing of the Australian Prime Property Fund Retail;
- Perenti on its capital structure, multiple financings in the bank and capital markets;
- Perth Airport on its capital structure and multiple financings in the bank and capital markets;
- QIC on multiple financings for its portfolio companies including bank financings, capital markets issuances, and ratings advisory, as well as bid financings for proposed asset acquisitions;
- Qube on its capital structure, including most recently its inaugural credit ratings and Australian MTN issuance, as well as multiple bank and capital markets financings;
- Wesfarmers on its ~$3.5bn bank refinancing.
Prior to Gresham, Sebastien was at Grant Samuel where he was a Director and key member of the Capital Advisory team based in Sydney, and prior was with Commonwealth Bank of Australia.