Weir & Associates is a specialist boutique commercial law firm operated by its principal Stuart Weir in Melbourne. Stuart is supported by 2 senior consultants, Nyla Bacon and Richard Mann.The firm provides high quality commercial and banking and finance legal services to its clients and outsourced banking and finance capability to other commercial law firms.Weir & Associates operates on a highly flexible basis that offers depth of resources where needed and provides top-tier service, experience and expertise in a manner that provides pricing certainty and value for money. Stuart is a senior commercial lawyer with over 30 years of commercial legal experience including 13 years at partner level. This includes the past 20 years specialising in banking and finance and before that 5 years specialising in major projects and construction. Stuart has a strong track record of successfully completing complex financing transactions for corporates, developers, lenders, government departments and multi-lateral institutions in a wide range of industries. His experience includes working for top tier firms in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and through that experience he has developed a strong collaborative working style. He has expertise in: • Property development finance (residential, mixed-use and commercial projects), • Project and infrastructure finance (greenfields and PPPs), windfarms and mining projects, • Acquisition finance and leveraged buy-outs, • Workouts and restructurings, • Structured finance (including securitisations and receivables financings), • General corporate lending (secured, unsecured, syndicated, bi-lateral and club transactions),• Corporate governance,• M&A and joint ventures.Stuart's expertise has been recognised for banking and finance in 2015/16 in Legal 500 and Doyles Guide to the Australian Legal Profession and from 2016 to 2020 in Best Lawyers.