Our mergers and acquisition experience includes:
iSelect Advised leading domestic insurance intermediary iSelect Ltd on its first acquisition in the Australian market, acquiring fellow market-leading finance comparison site InfoChoice Limited.
Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited
Advised Australia's largest listed investment company, AFIC, on a capital
raising to the value of $200 million (with the ability to raise more or less).
MAp Airports Limited
Advised MAp on its asset swap with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP).
OneSteel
Advised OneSteel Limited on its acquisition of WPG Resources Limited's iron ore assets for about $350 million.
Leighton Holdings Limited
Advised Leighton Holdings Limited, and its wholly‑owned subsidiary, Leighton Contractors (together, Leighton), on the sale of its HWE Iron Ore entities and assets, which provide iron ore contract mining services to BHP Billiton in Western Australia.
Foster's Group Limited
Advised iconic brewing company Foster's Group Limited on its proposed takeover
by Anglo South African brewer SABMiller for A$12.3 billion, via a scheme of
arrangement.
Endeavour Mining Corporation
Advised Toronto Stock Exchange-listed gold miner, Endeavour Mining Corporation, on its Merger Implementation Agreement with Australian Securities Exchange-listed Adamus Resources Limited.
Archer Capital
Advised Archer Capital on the establishment of Australian Hospital Partners Pty Limited and its acquisition of 100 per cent of Healthe Care Australia Pty Limited from CHAMP Ventures, Healthe Holdings, ING Investment Management and BOS International (Australia) Limited.
HBF
Advised Western Australia-based not-for-profit health fund HBF on the sale of
its general insurance business to CGU.
Newcrest Mining Limited
Advised Newcrest Mining Limited on the sale of its interests in the Cracow and
Mt Rawdon gold mines in Queensland to a new company formed by the merger of ASX-listed
gold companies Catalpa Resources Ltd and Conquest Mining Ltd
Queensland Government
Advised the Queensland Government on the A$1.829 billion divestment of the X50 Abbot Point Coal Terminal to Mundra Port Pty Ltd, involving a 99-year lease.
Lend Lease
Advised Lend Lease Group, one of the world's leading fully integrated property
solutions providers, on its A$192 million acquisition of Lend Lease Primelife
Group.
Felix Resources
Acted for Felix Resources on its A$3.5 billion acquisition by leading Chinese
resource company Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited.
Macquarie Airports (MAp)
Acted on MAp's agreement with Macquarie Capital to internalise its management.
The transaction was negotiated by Independent Board Committees of Macquarie
Airports Management and Macquarie Airports on behalf of MAp security holders.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Acted on Canada Pension Plan Investment Board acquisition of stapled securities
in Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group, for total consideration of
A$2.2 billion.
Challenger Life Company Limited
Acted for Challenger Life Company Limited on the proposed acquisition of 100
per cent of the units in Challenger Kenedix Japan Trust – valued at
approximately A$157 million.
Yahoo!7
Acted for Yahoo!7, the joint venture between the Seven Media Group and Yahoo!,
in its acquisition of totaltravel.com, the online travel information
marketplace.
CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V
Acted for the global building materials company on the sale of its Australian
operations for A$2.02 billion to Holcim Group, the world's second largest cement
maker.
Aviva
Advised Aviva on its A$825 million sale of wealth management business to NAB.
Goodman Group
Acted in the formation of a partnership with China Investment Corporation.
St.George
Advised St.George on the successful merger with Westpac and obtaining ACCC
approval of the merger. This was the first significant bank merger that the ACCC
considered in eight years. The deal was also named 'M&A deal of the year' and
'Australasian Deal of the Year' at the 2009 ALB Australasian Law Awards.
Hutchison Telecommunications
Advised Hutchison on the corporate aspects of the merger of its
telecommunication business in Australia with Vodafone Australia. The joint
venture, which delivers equal ownership of 50 per cent, was renamed VHA Pty
Limited.
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Advised Aberdeen on the acquisition of parts of Credit Suisse's Global
Investors business in Australia.
AGL
Advised AGL on the sale of its assets in Papua New Guinea for A$1.1 billion.
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto on its response to BHP's US$192 billion pre-conditional offer, and the
proposed US$19.5 billion strategic partnership between Rio Tinto and Chinalco.
We are also advising on its proposed iron ore joint venture with BHP, and
advised on the Australian aspects of the US$38 billion acquisition of Alcan.
Dairy Farmers
Advised on sale of Dairy Farmers to National Foods for A$910 million.
ConocoPhillips
Advised ConocoPhillips on its A$9 billion joint venture with Origin Energy.
Macquarie
Advised Macquarie Advanced Investments Group in relation to the A$836 million
take private proposal for the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group. This deal
represents the first Australian use of 'stub equity'.
CSL
Advised CSL on its US$3.1 billion acquisition of US blood plasma group Talecris
Biotherapeutics, the largest healthcare acquisition ever by an Australian
company.
MBF
Advised MBF on its demutualisation and A$2.4 billion merger with BUPA Australia.
Wesfarmers / Coles
Advised Wesfarmers on its A$20 billion acquisition of Coles.
CEMEX
Advised CEMEX on its US$15.3 billion successful acquisition of Rinker.
Zinifex
Advised Zinifex on its A$6.2 billion merger with Oxiana.
Qantas
Advised Qantas on the proposed A$11.1 billion takeover by the Airline Partners
consortium.
OneSteel
Advised OneSteel on its $A2.3 billion scheme of arrangement with Smorgon Steel.
Coates Hire
Advised Coates Hire on the A$2.2 billion takeover by the National Hire Group and
the Carlyle Group.
Dyno Nobel
Advised Dyno Nobel on its A$3.3 billion merger with Incitec Pivot.
Healthscope/Symbion
Advised Healthscope on its proposed A$2.8 billion merger with Symbion.
Basslink
Advised CitySpring Infrastructure Trust on its A$1.17 billion winning bid for
the Basslink undersea electricity transmission cable.
Bendigo Bank
Advised Bendigo Bank on its A$1.9 billion merger with Adelaide Bank. Also
advised on its proposed A$2.4 billion merger with the Bank of Queensland.
Queensland Government
Advised the Queensland Government on the A$2.7 billion sale of Sun Retail, Sun
Gas, Allgas and Powerdirect.
ANZ
Advised ANZ on its A$1 billion acquisition of a stake in Malaysian bank, AMMB
Holdings Berhad.
MIIF / Taiwan Broadband Communications
Advised Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) on the US$178 million
acquisition of a 20 per cent stake in Taiwan Broadband Communications from Och-Ziff
Capital Management Group.
Boart Longyear and Dyno Nobel
Advised the Macquarie Bank-led consortiums that acquired and reorganised the
global Dyno Nobel business and that acquired a majority interest in Boart
Longyear. We then acted on the subsequent IPOs of Dyno Nobel and Boart Longyear.
Brambles
Advised Brambles on a range of divestments and the unique arrangement which
unified Brambles Industries Limited and Brambles Industries plc to become the
single holding company Brambles Limited. The financial value of the deal was
approximately A$25.8 billion which included the US$1.35 billion sale of
Cleanaway Australia and New Zealand to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
News Corporation re-incorporation in United States
Advised News Corporation on its re-incorporation into the United States.
