He worked at the firm’s New York office from 2013 to 2016
White & Case has welcomed debt finance expert Will Stawell back as its newest partner in Sydney.
Stawell makes the jump from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), where he spent nearly a decade and was a partner. He has almost two decades of experience in his field, having handled acquisition finance, leverage finance, general corporate finance, private capital, syndicated TLBs, debt trades, PIKs, subordinated instruments, warrants and restructuring and insolvency.
He has worked with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, lenders like private debt, investment banks and banks, and corporate borrowers
Stawell was part of the KWM team that advised Australian mass transit systems operator Kinetic on a series of strategic financing arrangements through which the company raised over $3.5bn in 2024. He also represented Stonepeak on the the acquisition financing of its investment in iOR.
He acted for Goldman Sachs on its financing of Madison Dearborn’s acquisition of APM through scheme of arrangement. He also represented the lenders to Brookfield in its bid to purchase part of Origin Energy.
Stawell worked in White & Case’s New York office as an associate from 2013 to 2016. In his return, he joins the firm’s global debt finance practice and global financial institutions industry group.
“Our ongoing strategy is to build globally to ensure we're best placed to support clients on their key deals and the addition of Will, a leading lawyer in the Australia finance market, clearly aligns with that strategy”, vice chair Oliver Brettle said.
