Brett is a strong believer in community involvement. He has worked on many pro bono projects, volunteers as an emergency services first responder for Marine Rescue NSW, and otherwise commits to supported charities.
Some of Brett’s projects are showcased below.
Eagle Corporate Advisers (ECA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with international development agency, Australian Business Volunteers (ABV) in connection with a project for the Cambodian government.
With ABV to assist with the development of Cambodia’s first-ever securities market, this MoU allowed ECA to contribute legal and market research support to the Cambodian government for the duration of the project.
“ABV possesses great talent and ability in managing what was a complex project,” said Brett R. Eagle, CEO of ECA. “It was critical to the project’s success and we were very pleased to partner with them towards that end. Our challenge at the end of the day was to advance the interests of the nation in both local and global markets, and that’s exciting.”
We reviewed and advised on such matters as the compliance requirements for securities trading and advisory businesses and/or market makers, minimum capital requirements for such parties, licensing and operating rules for those wanting to operate a stock exchange, policies around dual listing approvals, anti-money laundering rules and other matters.
It was a rare opportunity to look behind the rules and regulations that govern a capital market (rather than trying to guide in interpreting them) and ask, ‘Why?’ ‘What’s the purpose of the regulations and how effective are they at providing a solution to the issue being addressed?’ ‘What do other countries do?’
Brett is a volunteer member of Marine Rescue NSW. He serves at the Middle Harbour, Sydney, base as skipper of one of the rescue vessels. This typically involves 1-2 days per month and otherwise on emergency call-out.
Marine Rescue NSW is the state’s official volunteer marine rescue service, committed to saving lives on the water. It has a network of 45 strategically-located units on the NSW coastline, Lord Howe Island and inland on the Alpine Lakes in the Snowy Mountains and the Murray River at Moama.
There are over 100 vessels including ocean-going vessels, vessels to serve shallower, inland waterways, as well as newly commissioned jet-ski vessels. There are over 3,000 volunteers.
Brett has volunteered with Marine Rescue NSW for over ten years.
For four years Brett skippered and campaigned the Wild Oats racing yacht. During such time he built a sports-focused community of more than 30 people who sailed regularly in the ocean and inshore races, and an extended community of over 70 people, that included spouses, children, moms and dads of the sailors, who were always keen for updates on the big, multi-day races. The end of year and birthday celebration gatherings were a hoot!
This community became a true life line support for many folk through the Covid19 pandemic lock-downs and associated stresses. It was a high priority to take care of everyone!
As Skipper/owner Brett has competed in many thousands of miles of offshore sailing races, including Sydney to Hobart races.
This yacht is the original Wild Oats that the Oatley family had custom built, and which started the ‘Bob Oatley’ legacy, that eventually led to the commissioning of the Wild Oats XI maxi yacht, nine-times line honours winner of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
Wild Oats (the original) has also won the Sydney to Hobart race – twice! Her photograph hangs in the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, in Hobart.
For some fun videos taken during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, and other pictures and information, please see the Wild Oats Yacht Racing Facebook page!
Brett continues to compete in the big ocean races, often as navigator, helm, 2iC.
We believe there is great value in understanding the client’s business and general industry (client’s help clearly needed). We are committed to engage, as needed, in our clients’ general commercial transactions.
We approach each transaction as a task in itself, but undertaken pursuant to an overall plan to build out standard templates for our clients’ internal structure. Our goal is to develop consistent culture and firm identity.
We create, over time and one transaction at a time, a customized library of template forms and strategies specific for each country where the client is most active.
This has included work for large, commercial shipping companies, government entities, and family office/individual owners of smaller, commercial or privately held vessels, negotiating commercial agreements with vendors, suppliers, insurers, brokers, shipyards and related consultants, negotiating contracts for acquisitions of new and existing maritime vessels, collaborating with key stakeholders within relevant organizations and related.
The client had approximately 42 vessels in its fleet (Suezmax, Handysize, Panamax and other vessels, mostly flagged in the Marshall Islands, each under a separate LLC entity) aggregating approximately 3.6 million dwt. With such client, he completed $’00s millions in capital raising transactions on the NYSE as well as privately, assisted with acquisitions of new and existing vessels with financing arrangements from banks in Germany and elsewhere, and many other matters.
The project involved representing Sinosure for a number of years – the Chinese government export credit and insurance corporation – and approximately 15 China-based bicycle manufacturers during the bankruptcy process of the United States’ based Huffy Corporation, and in particular, the title to goods while in transit and transfer of title pursuant to INCO terms, protection of payment obligations by way of letters of credit and other instruments, bills of lading, customs declarations and other matters facilitating the clearance of goods through the Port of Los Angeles, U.S.A.
As a ship’s captain in his own right, Brett holds certificates of competency with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (both Master of Vessel and Marine Engine Driver for commercial vessels), and holds a Yachtmaster (Offshore) rating with the United Kingdom-based Royal Yachting Association.
We specialize in complex, multi-jurisdictional projects from a solutions focus, not just as professional advisors. Our experience drives efficiency in coordinating and integrating local experts and specialist advisors to meet completion requirements.
Our work has included complex securities offerings as well as venture capital and smaller private equity financings, structuring closed-end and open ended funds, corporate acquisitions and global corporate structures.
Our clients have included publicly held multi-national corporations as well as smaller, privately held entities and investors in the USA, Hong Kong and China, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, the United Kingdom, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France and other countries around the world.
We work closely with local experts and specialist advisors. We match transaction requirements with the proper resources for effective execution.
