They strengthen the firm's finance and restructuring and corporate/M&A practices
Mayne Wetherell has promoted Jane Innes-Jones and Cameron Reeves to partner.
They took up their new roles on 1 May. Jones practises with the finance and restructuring team while Reeves co-heads the firm’s technology and innovation team.
Jones is an expert in restructuring and insolvency matters. She has acted for domestic and international lenders and borrowers.
Recently, she helped to structure the secured super-senior and senior financing arrangements to support the management buy-out of NPD. She also advised the senior lenders to solarZero’s securitisation trusts following the liquidation of solarZero.
Jones brings in-house experience from stints as an in-house counsel and in a loan execution position at a New Zealand trading bank, which she held before making the move to Mayne Wetherell. She spearheaded the major bank’s syndications and agency business; she also arranged and structuried loans across the bank's institutional and corporate loan book, including sustainability-linked loans.
“Jane’s expertise in finance and restructuring law coupled with her front-line experience as a lender and agent make her an invaluable asset for the firm and our clients”, Mayne Wetherell partner Will Tipping said.
Reeves has worked with domestic and international corporates, private equity and other financial sponsors. He is an expert on structured equity, debt and special situations transactions advising on preferred and other equity-linked instruments across the capital structure.
He spent four years in Sydney with Gilbert + Tobin and Clifford Chance, where he gleaned experience with Australasian transactions and market trends. He returned to Mayne Wetherell in 2022, where he has tackled domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions such as take-private of NZX-listed MHM Automation by a KKR portfolio company.
Reeves has assisted listed clients on all aspects of corporate governance and reporting with a particular focus on climate reporting processes, according to Mayne Wetherell.
“Cameron brings a wealth of experience and energy to the firm and our corporate/M&A team. We are thrilled to welcome him to the partnership and look forward to continuing to work together to deliver outstanding client service and results”, partner Matthew Olsen said.
