We represent corporates and corporate groups, UHNWs and HNW investors, founders of businesses and Directors and key Management on M&A, corporate, commercial and capital raising matters.

Our experience in the following sectors:

  • financial services - fund managers, private debt funds, wealth managers, insurers, litigation funders;

  • tech - martech, insuretech, telco-tech, medtech;

  • medical - radiology, hospitals, allied health care providers,

  • mining - mining services, exploration companies, JVs, carried interest arrangements, dual listed companies and commodities trading;

  • property - industrial, land banks, property development, REITs;

  • industrial - recycling facilities, warehouses, storage facilities;

  • retail - clothing, cosmetics; concession arrangements, franchises;

  • professional services firms - law, accounting and others on rollups, investments, founder exits and partnership issues;

  • UHNW family groups - succession planning at a group wide level, elder abuse and investee company issues;

  • energy - wind farms.

Our M&A deal lawyers have worked on deals with an aggregate value well in excess of A$100 billion, including on:

  • equity fund and debt fund set-up - we have acted for more than a dozen fund managers across their whole life cycle from start up phase, fund set-up, team recruitment and incentive structures, back office (administrative services / RE arrangements), trusts deeds, IMAs, group structuring & carry arrangements;

  • private capital raising

  • public company - both pre-takeover and takeover processes

  • board spills, governance issues and dealings between co-founders

  • equity and phantom equity incentive plans

  • trusts and corporatisation of trusts

  • representing joint venture parties in various industries in relation to joint venture formations, restructures and dissolutions.