Mergers and Acquisitions

Clients applauded the Mergers and Acquisitions team’s flexible and appropriate style: “Its advice is thorough and detailed when needed, and quick and concise when necessary, but always accurate.” They also appreciated the lawyers’ “round the clock availability.” Chambers Global 2008 Australian Chapter

Our top-tier M&A team draws upon many years of experience acting on high profile, complex and strategic public company transactions. Over this time, we have worked alongside major domestic (ASX200) and international companies and funds, leading investment banks and other advisers.

We assist clients to achieve their strategic objectives by understanding their business and transaction drivers and by applying our technical excellence to enable commercial outcomes.

We have an exceptional mergers and acquisitions team delivering:

• market leading execution skills, from acting on many of Australia's largest and most complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions
• outstanding lawyers who combine first-rate technical skills with sound strategic and commercial judgment
• creativity in deal design and structuring to meet your commercial objectives
• a seamless team delivering coherent and efficient solutions to the M&A and regulatory issues
• teams that work effectively and efficiently with your other advisers
• constructive commercial advice to help you cut through the complexities and focus on the key transactional drivers
• a commitment to understanding your business objectives and needs in order to deliver results
• dependability and responsiveness under pressure
• efficient project management of matters, no matter the size or complexity
• good working relationships with key regulators and industry bodies
• a real hunger and passion for what we do.

Recognition

• CFO DealBook Awards - Legal Adviser to M&A Deal of the Year: AMP/AXA SA A$14.6 billion acquisition of AXA Asia Pacific
• Thomson Reuters Legal Advisor M&A League Tables Full Year 2010 - No. 1 ranking in Any Australia or New Zealand Involvement Announced Deals (by rank value)
• Thomson Reuters Legal Advisor M&A League Tables Full Year 2010 - No. 1 ranking in Any Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Involvement Announced Deals (by rank value)