Profile
Rachel Paris
Rachel is a specialist financial services lawyer with experience across a broad range of capital markets and structured lending transactions.
She has particular experience in project finance, restructuring and entertainment production financing. She also provides regulatory advice.
Rachel advises some of our leading corporate clients on their funding requirements including the Rank Group of companies and Tainui Group Holdings, as well as acting for a number of leading financial institutions such as ANZ National Bank Limited, Bank of New Zealand and Goldman Sachs JB Were, and corporate trustee, The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited.
Rachel completed the Masters in Law programme at Harvard Law School where she was selected for the school's prestigious International Finance LLM programme. After Harvard, Rachel advised blue-chip clients on the financing and structuring of major infrastructure and acquisition projects while at Allen & Overy's Projects Group in London. She went on to work at Olswang, the UK's leading technology, communications and media law firm, where she advised household names on film production financing.
Rachel is named as a leading lawyer in banking and finance by IFLR1000 2012 and is quoted as "an up and coming future superstar".
Qualifications
LLB (Hons), BA (Economics and Spanish), University of Auckland
LLM (International Finance), Harvard Law School
Admitted
2000 New Zealand
International Career
- Allen & Overy, London
2003-2005 - Olswang, London
2005-2006
