Mergers and Acquisitions
Advising Australian clients in the national market
As an independent firm, we are consistently ranked as one of the most active M&A teams in Australia. Every lawyer on every transaction team has the experience, market knowledge and local understanding to cut through complexity, providing straightforward and actionable advice with unequivocal commercial recommendations.
Our private M&A services
- Acquisitions and disposals of companies, businesses and assets
- Auction processes and bilateral deals (acting for buyers or sellers)
- Competition law issues and ACCC merger authorisations
- Cross-border transactions, including foreign investment approvals
- Deal structuring and due diligence investigations and reporting
- Private equity, real asset and venture capital investments, bolt-on acquisitions and exits
- Shareholders Agreements, joint ventures and management equity plans
- W&I insurance
Private M&A delivered to advance your commercial objective
We advise national and international corporations, financial sponsors, management teams and founders across all aspects of acquisitions, growth and exit transactions. Setting a constructive tone of engagement in negotiations, we provide practical and actionable advice that advances your commercial objectives.
Our lawyers are routinely recognised by peers as some of the best in the Australian market, with accolades including Corporate Lawyer of the Year and M&A Lawyer of the Year. With extensive experience in mid-market M&A transactions of all sizes, we bring execution excellence and unrelenting commercial focus to every transaction.
Our Public M&A services
- Pre-bid strategy and bid preparation
- Bid defence and response, strategy and implementation
- Shareholder approved control transactions (including Item 7 of Section 611 transactions)
- Reverse takeovers
- Schemes of arrangement
- Takeovers
- De-listing and take private transactions
- Regulatory engagement (ASX, ASIC, Takeovers Panel)
Public M&A: execution excellence in complex, fast moving transactions
Our experienced Public M&A team brings a pragmatic, commercially-focused approach to every transaction. Combining deep diligence with execution excellence, we deliver clear commercial outcomes for clients while minimising business disruption.
We advise bidders on pre-bid strategy and stake-building through to structuring and implementing transactions. We also support targets preparing for takeovers from initial preparation through to responding to and negotiating bids, whether friendly or hostile. Our team is highly experienced in obtaining regulatory approvals from ASX, ASIC, FIRB and ACCC and advising Boards on their duties. Combining technical skills with a hands-on, solutions-focused approach, we effectively deliver our clients’ commercial objectives.
