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Stargaze Commercial Finance

About Stargaze

When banks stop, we find a way forward.

Commercial Finance built around complex transactions, private credit, and the structuring that conventional bank lending does not reach.

At a glance

Experience
6+ years in Commercial Finance
Transactions
$200M+ written
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (Corporate Finance), University of Adelaide
Qualification
Diploma of Mortgage Broking
Memberships
Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia (MFAA)Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA)

Who you’ll deal with

Swapnil Vali

Founder & Director


Swapnil is a Commercial Finance specialist focused on complex transactions, private credit, and structuring solutions that help businesses and investors move forward.

With over six years’ experience in Commercial Finance, he has worked across transactions ranging from straightforward business funding through to complex, multi-million-dollar property-backed facilities — more than $200 million in total.

Before founding Stargaze, he built experience across commercial broking, major-bank lending, non-bank commercial lending, private credit and credit assessment. That has included one of Australia’s Big Four banks, a specialist non-bank commercial funder, and a leading Commercial Finance brokerage — giving him exposure to transactions from both the funder and the borrower side.

The practical consequence is that he understands not only how to originate a transaction, but how a funder’s credit team is likely to assess it. That shapes how Stargaze structures and presents a deal from the outset, rather than discovering the problem after a decline.

He specialises in transactions that don’t always fit neatly within traditional lending parameters — working through security positions, leverage, cash flow, timing and exit strategies to determine how a transaction can be structured.

Why Stargaze

“I started Stargaze because I wanted the freedom to approach Commercial Finance differently. The objective has never been simply to settle one transaction and move on.

I want to understand where a client is trying to go, structure finance that makes commercial sense, and build relationships that continue as their business grows.

Sometimes that means finding funding quickly. Other times it means telling a client that the structure needs to change, leverage needs to come down, or there is a better way to approach the transaction. The goal is always to find a solution that works beyond settlement.”

— Swapnil Vali, Founder & Director

Capability

What we structure.


Through relationships across private funders, non-bank financiers, credit funds and investors, Stargaze can explore structures outside conventional bank lending parameters.

  • First and second mortgage finance
  • Mezzanine and structured finance
  • Private and non-NCCP commercial lending
  • Bridging finance and property settlements
  • Construction and development finance
  • Land acquisition, land banking and subdivisions
  • Working capital and cash-flow facilities
  • Business acquisitions
  • Equipment and asset finance
  • Shop and commercial shell fit-outs
  • ATO and business debt refinancing
  • Commercial property finance

Sectors we know well

  • Property & Construction
  • NDIS & Care
  • Hospitality
  • Transport & Logistics
  • Commercial Property

Credentials

Who we are, on paper.


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Legal entity
Stargaze Pty Ltd
Trading name
Stargaze Commercial Finance
ABN
86 664 377 191
ACN
664 377 191
Registered office
315 Prospect Road, Blair Athol SA 5084
Scope
Business purpose finance only

We arrange finance for business purposes only — credit that is wholly or predominantly for business or investment purposes, and which therefore falls outside the National Consumer Credit Protection Act. That lending can be secured against residential as well as commercial property; what determines the treatment is the purpose of the funds, not the type of security. Because this work sits outside the NCCP Act, an Australian Credit Licence is not required for it. We do not provide credit assistance for personal, domestic or household purposes.

Start with a scenario, not an application.

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