Sebastien is the founding Managing Director and Head of Gresham Debt Advisory.
Sebastien has more than 25 years of experience in banking and finance, joining Gresham in October 2016. Sebastien has advised leading Australian and international companies on an extensive number of engagements, across a wide range of industries which comprise: agriculture; general industrials; energy, mining and infrastructure; property; retail (discretionary and non-discretionary); and technology, and specialises in providing advice on capital structure, credit ratings, debt and equity raisings, and restructurings.
Sebastien has advised on and arranged financings with a cumulative value of more than $100 billion, in the Australian and International funding markets including: the bank market in Australia, Africa, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States; and capital markets including AMTN, EMTN, Reg.S, US144A (investment grade and high yield), Retail Note (senior and subordinated), Convertible Notes and Hybrids, and US Term Loan as well as structured funding markets including project and asset finance markets.
Sebastien’s recent major capital advisory transactions comprise:
- AGL on capital structure, credit ratings, and $4.5bn debt facilities in connection with the proposed structural separation and demerger
- Coles on capital structure, credit ratings, and inaugural $4bn debt facilities in connection with the demerger from Wesfarmers
- Computershare on capital structure, credit ratings, and multiple syndicated financings in the Australian and US bank market, including establishing inaugural capital markets programmes and multiple capital markets issuances in the AMTN, EMTN and USPP markets
- ElectraNet on capital structure, credit ratings, and ~$1.0bn financing in the Australian bank market
- Kelsian on capital structure and its fully underwritten $2.4bn acquisition debt facility to support its proposed acquisition of Go-Ahead Group PLC, as well as multiple financings in the Australian and US bank markets
- Lendlease on the $1.4bn refinancing in the Australian bank market for the Australian Prime Property Fund Retail
- Pacific Energy on capital structure, and its $1.6bn refinancing in the Australian bank market and inaugural syndication in the Asian term loan market
- Perenti on capital structure, credit ratings, and multiple refinancings in the Australian bank market, and capital markets issuances in the US 144A market
- Perth Airport on its capital structure and credit rating review and ~$1.5bn refinancing as well as other property financings
- Qube on its capital structure and ~$1.3bn refinancing, inaugural credit ratings, establishment of capital markets programmes and $600m issuance, in addition to multiple financings
- Tilt Renewables on its capital structure and funding strategy, including multiple financings in the Australian bank market, Asian Term Loans and project financings.
- Wesfarmers on capital structure, optimisation of funding platform and ~$3.5bn refinancing in the Australian bank market
- WiseTech on capital structure, and its ~US$3.0bn fully underwritten syndicated debt financing to support the acquisition of E2Open, as well as multiple other financings.
Sebastien holds a Bachelor of Commerce (majors Corporate Finance, Economics, and Econometrics) from The University of Sydney, a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, and is a Certified Practising Accountant (“CPA”).