Specialist M&A Advice

Our team has extensive experience of advising on all types of M&A transaction. Together, this amounts to well in excess of 100 transactions with a combined value of more than A$500 billion. This includes:

• Bids for listed companies, including recommended transactions, unsolicited approaches and outright hostile bids

• Advising Boards of listed companies on preparing for and responding to take-over approaches, including defence against unsolicited or hostile bids where this is the appropriate course of action

• Domestic and cross-border transactions

• Private transactions, including mandated sales and acquisitions of privately held companies

• Leveraged buy-outs, acting for both financial sponsors as well as for counterparties on LBO transactions

• Demergers, spin-offs and other forms of corporate restructuring

• Joint ventures and partnerships

Our team’s experience includes many significant transactions, across 25 countries and all major industry sectors, as well as encompassing transactions completed in both strong and weak economic/market conditions. This experience gives us the perspective and confidence to identify and implement the optimum approach to each transaction, even where this may be unconventional, helping our clients to complete attractive transactions even in adverse circumstances.