Bruce Costain

Experience

Bruce Costain has over 23 years of legal experience in a wide range of commercial, property, finance and insolvency transactions.  He regularly acts for:

• directors, shareholders and joint venture partners on corporate governance issues, including drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, constitutions, limited partnership agreements and other ancillary documents;
• companies and limited partnerships in acquisition and merger transactions;
• vendors and purchasers in business and share acquisitions and dispositions, including drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements and providing advice in relation to appropriate warranties and purchase price structuring;
• vendors and purchasers in commercial, industrial and residential property acquisitions and dispositions, including drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements;
• landlords and tenants of commercial, industrial and residential property, including drafting and negotiating leasing and licensing arrangements;
• lenders (including banks, finance companies and syndicates) and borrowers in financing transactions, including drafting and negotiating loan/facility, security, guarantee and priority documentation;
• lenders, receivers, liquidators and administrators advising on debt recovery, enforcement of securities, mortgagee sales, priority issues and settlement agreements.

Qualifications: BCom (Hons, First Class) / LLB