Deals

MLAs to Bain Capital

Advised the Mandated Lead Arrangers on the debt facilities being provided to Bain Capital to fund the take private acquisition of aged care operator Estia Health, an ASX listed business. The transaction is being conducted via a scheme of arrangement for an enterprise value of A$959 million.

Anchorage Capital Partners

Advised Anchorage on its investments including HMA Group, AWCON, Entag & Rubicon8, David Jones, Affinity Childcare, Faculties First, Acrow, Brand Collective, South Pacific Laundries, Dick Smith Electronics, Solgen, Rail First and Total Eden. We have also advised on multiple exits of the foregoing businesses.

Five V

Advised Five V Capital on its investments including Questas, Custom Fluid Power, Dyflex, ATO Taxmate, Umwelt, 4Cabling, Attekus, Checkbox, EngageRM, and 1Breadcrumb.

Mercury Capital

Advised Mercury Capital on its investments including Achitectus, E&P, Paramount Liquor, Findex, ResourceCo, Re.Group (including the acquisition of Poly Trade), Message Media and Fifty Five Five (including its sale to Accenture).

Next Capital

Advised Next Capital on its investments including its sale of Funlab to TPG, Interhealthcare (including its sale to Healthia), Infin8 Aged Care (including its sale to MA Financial), Forest Coach Lines (including its sale to ComfortdelGro), Travvia, Compare Club, Scentia Education and Eptec (including its sale to Arlington Capital Partners).

Pemba Capital Partners

Advised Pemba Capital on its investments including Stannards, Sequana, HRL and Ektimo, ACIS (including its sale to Tasman Capital), ctrl:cyber, Smart Loyalty and its exits from Marque Group and ReadyTech (including the IPO of ReadyTech) and the sale of Vets Central to a TPG led continuation fund.

Quadrant Private Equity

Advised Quadrant Private Equity on its investments including LegalVision, Circuitwise, Southern Star Research, Grays Online, Seertech Global, End Game and Probe BPO.

Whiteoak

Advised on a number of investments including Amplify, Benchmark Estimating Solutions/MiEngineers, Electrotech/Insitec (Sovereign Capability Group), Arcadia and Zeus Street Greek.

Other sponsor clients

Advised a number of other private equity sponsors including Warburg Pincus, BGH Capital, Black Rock, Permira, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Pacific Equity Partners, Crescent Capital, Black Kite Partners, Allegro Funds, Roc Partners, Odyssey Private Equity, QIC, Brookfield, Point King Capital, Glow Capital, Arrowroot Capital, FTV Capital and Charlesbank, among others.

GeelongPort acquisition

Advised the financiers to US infrastructure investor Stonepeak and Australian superfund Spirit Super for their A$1 billion+ acquisition of GeelongPort.

EQT

Advised EQT on its investments including PropertyMe, PageUp People Development, Compass Education, School Bytes, Newbook, EduCo Global and SAI Global.

Coles

Advising Coles Group Limited on the sale of its fuel and convenience business to Viva Energy Group Limited. As part of the A$300 million transaction, Viva Energy will own and operate 710 Coles Express sites.

Anchorage Capital Partners

Advised Anchorage Capital Partners on the acquisition of department store David Jones from Woolworths Holdings Limited (South Africa).

Risland (formerly Country Garden Australia)

Advised Risland on planning issues associated with its acquisition at Wilton including advice on permissibility, rezoning, Special Infrastructure Contributions and developer contributions, biodiversity and mining-related issues.