Deals

Gold Road

Advised Gold Road in connection with the acquisition by Gold Fields Limited of 100% of the shares in Gold Road by way of a Court-approved scheme of arrangement.

EQT

Advised EQT and its portfolio companies on a number of recent transactions, including the acquisitions of Compass Education and PageUP People Development, the sale of EduCo and the acquisition of School Bytes by Compass as well as the take-private of SAI Global Limited and the divestment of SAI Global’s Standards and Assurance divisions.

L1 Capital

Advised L1 Capital and its shareholders on the merger with Platinum Asset Management via the sale of L1 Capital to Platinum pursuant to a merger implementation deed.

CoStar

Advising CoStar on its approximately A$3 billion proposed takeover of Domain by way of a scheme of arrangement, including its A$450 million pre-bid acquisition of a 16.9% stake in Domain.

ESR Group

Advised on the global offering and listing of its shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange, which raised US$1.6 billion and implied a market capitalisation for ESR of US$6.7 billion as well as the sale of its stakes in Centuria Capital Group and Cromwell Property Group via a block trade.

Realm Investment House and Equity Trustees Limited

Advised on the recent IPO of Dominion Income Trust 1, an innovative debt-focused ASX-listed investment trust.

ESR

Advised ESR Group Limited on the disposal of ESR’s 30.7% stake in ASX-listed Cromwell Property Group (Cromwell) in two tranches.

Paladin

Advised Paladin Energy Ltd (Paladin) on a fully underwritten equity raising of A$300 million to be used primarily to advance the development of the Patterson Lake South project (PLS).

Challenger

Advised Challenger Investment Management on a target $350 million initial public offering of Challenger IM LiFTS 1 Notes, an ASX-listed note offering.

Wambal Bila

Advised Wambal Bila Limited (Wambal Bila), on its groundbreaking deal to establish an equity partnership between renewable energy developer AMPYR Australia Pty Ltd (AMPYR) and the Wellington Aboriginal Community.

Port of Newcastle

Advised Port of Newcastle on the establishment of its A$1 billion Secured debt issuance programme and inaugural issuance of A$300 million Guaranteed Senior Secured Notes.

Brigalow Pipeline Project

Acted as Lead Tax Advisor to APA Group (APA) on the Brigalow Pipeline Project – a major new energy infrastructure development supporting the transformation of Queensland's energy market.

L1 Capital

Advised on the $950 million initial public offering of L1 Gold Fund Limited (ASX: LGF), a listed investment company with a long–short gold and other precious metals strategy.

MyState

Advised MyState on its domestic funding programmes including issuances of Additional Tier 1 Capital, Tier 2 Capital and mostly recently on its A$250,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes.