Rory McGrath
Founder and Managing Director, Aurelius Private
Rory McGrath is the founder and Managing Director of Aurelius Private, the non-bank private lending brokerage arm of Aurelius Capital Group. He started his career in commercial finance in New Zealand before relocating to Australia, where he founded Aurelius Capital in 2024 and launched Aurelius Private shortly after.
His focus is the origination and arrangement of private lending, structuring and placing development, construction, bridging and cashflow finance across a very large panel of private lenders, family offices and high-net-worth investors. Deal sizes range from $100,000 to $100M+.
Rory writes regularly on the Australian private finance market: how the structural dynamics between bank and non-bank lending are shifting, what gets funded and what doesn’t, and the deal mechanics behind the numbers. His commentary is direct, opinion-led, and built on placed deal flow.
Aurelius Capital Group is a member of CAFBA and operates as Credit Representative 560687/562362 of Connective Credit Services Pty Ltd, ACL 389328. Aurelius Private operates outside the NCCP framework on commercial-purpose deals only.
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