Deals

M Resources and Golden Energy and Resources (GEAR)

Advised the consortium on its approximately A$2.5 billion acquisition of the Illawarra Metallurgical Coal business from South32.

Paladin Energy Limited

Advised ASX-listed Paladin Energy Limited on its C$1.1 billion acquisition of Fission Uranium Corporation.

Silver Lake Resources Limited

Advised ASX-listed Silver Lake Resources Limited on its $A2.3 billion ‘merger of equals’ with Red 5 Limited to create ASX’s fifth largest gold producer.

Cabot Properties

Advised a fund managed by US based Cabot Properties Inc in relation to financing for construction of an industrial park development in Campbellfield in outer Melbourne

Lenders on BTRTO project

Advised lenders on the Assemble Communities’ build-to-rent-to-own projects. The Assemble Futures model combines residential leases with a purchase option and is backed by some of Australia’s largest superannuation funds.

Lenders on West Side Place project

Advised the lenders on the A$2 billion Stage 1 and 2 of Far East Consortium’s West Side Place project in Melbourne’s CBD, including over 2,500 residential apartments, a Ritz Carlton Hotel and a Dorsett Hotel. The project involved complicated property titling issues, non-disturbance arrangements, and staged settlement of low and mid-rise residential components whilst construction of high-rise aspects of the projects was still to be completed.

KKR industrial and logistics portfolio

Acted for the lender on a syndicated facility to a JV between KKR and a domestic property developer, in relation to a portfolio of 25+ industrial and logistical sites across all eastern states of Australia. The financing involved a complex negotiation regarding sponsor support from KKR.

A leading Australian venture capital firm

Advising a leading Australian venture capital firm on its fund financing arrangements to support its investments in the tech sector. At the time, this was a first in market fund financing for a venture capital fund in Australia.

The lenders to a private equity fund

Advised the lenders to a leading Australian private equity fund on multiple separate fund financing transactions across a series of funds and strategies.

A major infrastructure investor

Advised a major infrastructure investor on all of its fund financing facilities, including its first capital call and NAV facilities and two separate GP financings.

A wholesale debt fund

Advised a wholesale debt fund providing high-volume business loans on a structured financing transaction involving fund finance and securitisation.

A wholesale debt fund

Advised a wholesale debt fund, acting as borrower, with respect to multiple multi-billion-dollar facilities from syndicates of domestic and offshore banks and funds, used to fund commercial loans to Australian borrowers.

McGrath Nicol and Qenos Holdings

Advised Qenos, the largest polyethylene manufacturer, in exploring either the sale of its business as a going concern, or a liquidation and shutdown of its operations and realisation of its land assets following remediation. Most recently advised Qenos (and its subsidiaries) with respect to the potential availability for the directors to seek the protection of the ‘safe harbour’ regime and maintain that protection through various developments to the restructuring plan.

KPMG and Tritium DCFC

Advising NASDAQ listed Tritium DCFC on its sale and recapitalisation process and the subsequent voluntary administration and liquidation of the insolvent estate.