Richard Hayes is an international finance lawyer with a focus on acquisition and funds financings, and general corporate finance. For more than 25 years, he has advised clients in relation to acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings, recapitalisations and work-outs at leading firms in London, New York and Sydney. 

Richard is known for his work on cross-border acquisition financing transactions, having advised on one of the largest and most significant acquisitions of an Australian listed company in recent times. His clients include global investment banks, commercial banks, debt funds, and other lenders, as well as private equity and other investment firms and corporations. 

Richard is admitted in Australia, England, and New York and ranked as a leading banking and finance lawyer in the Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global and Legal 500 Asia Pacific directories.