Hamish McCormack is a lawyer based in Melbourne, specialising in complex financing transactions. Hamish has a particular focus on leveraged finance and structured asset financings, including shipping and aircraft finance, along with extensive experience working on capital raisings, liability management exercises, recapitalisations, restructurings and other special situation transactions. He has acted on a diverse range of deals involving mainstream and exotic assets, including as lead counsel on three 'Deals of the Year' and on several high profile liability management transactions with respect to public companies and their asset holdings.

Hamish has significant experience acting for leading clients on both the borrower and lender side on the most complex deals in the North American, European, and Asia-Pacific lending markets. Among other clients, Hamish has acted for every bulge bracket institutional bank, top tier private equity sponsors including Apollo, Bain, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR and The Carlyle Group, and for many specialist private credit funds operating in the acquisition and asset financing space. Prior to joining Norton Rose, Hamish spent 6 years practicing in the United States, where he was most recently a partner in an elite New York firm’s debt finance practice.