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With emphasis on quality, innovation and timeliness, we deliver highly successful outcomes in mergers and acquisitions for leading companies in Australia and around the world. We also have significant Private Equity expertise.

Independent surveys have consistently recognised our lawyers as the best M&A advisers in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Our M&A team were named Australian Deal Team of the Year at the 2007 ALB Australasian Law Awards. We are ranked in the top tier for Corporate/M&A in Chambers Global 2008 (the most recent rankings) and Asia Pacific Legal 500 2006-2007.

AAR is also ranked number one for announced deals in Asia -Pacific (ex-Japan) and Australia/New Zealand in the 2007 Thomson Legal Advisors Mergers & Acquisitions Review, and recognised as the leading adviser for 2007 in the Connect4 M&A survey. This is due to our M&A team having played a crucial role in some of the largest and most complex deals in Australia's corporate history, including:

• Wesfarmers on its A$20 billion acquisition of Coles;
• CitySpring Infrastructure Trust's winning A$1.17 billion bid for the Basslink undersea electricity transmission cable;
• News Corporation's reincorporation in the United States;
• General Property Trust Management Limited's defence of separate merger and takeover proposals from Lend Lease and Stockland Property Group, and the ultimately successful internalisation of management;
• Cemex's successful takeover of Rinker;
• the proposed A$11.1 billion takeover of Qantas by a private equity consortium;
• the takeover battles for Patrick Corp, Sun Retail, WMC Resources, Virgin Blue and Southcorp;
• the acquisition of Epic Energy's Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline;
• the landmark A$1.4 billion sale of the Myer department store business; and
• the groundbreaking DLCs – Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Brambles/GKN and the unique unification of Brambles.

We work alongside business leaders to get the deals done, providing clear commercial solutions to complex legal problems. Specialist expertise within our firm allows us to fully service deals when negotiating related matters of taxation, financing and competition law.

Experience you can count on

Our experience spans a broad range of industries including mining, financial services, health, media and retail sectors.

Our strong and enduring relationships with leading financial advisers and regulators, including the Australian Securities & Investments Commission, the ACCC, the Takeovers Panel and the Australian Stock Exchange, enable us to play an effective part in any advisory team.

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