Deals

Macquarie Asset Management

Advised Macquarie Asset Management and Macquarie Korea on the provision of debt facilities to fund the acquisition of Linen Services Australia from Adamantem and Spotless Services.

Lenders to QBE Insurance Group

Advised a syndicate of lenders to QBE Insurance Group, an international insurance company, on various multi-billion-dollar corporate refinancings.

Adamantem Capital

Advised Adamantem Capital on its investments including Micro Grid Power, Servian (including its sale to Accenture) and HyGain and MitaVite, including its sale.

Five V Capital

Advised Five V Capital, a leading private equity and venture capital firm, on its A$366 million acquisition of Questas, Australia’s top hydraulics and fluid power provider.

Major Australian banks

Advised a leading Australian bank, Metrics Credit Partners, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Westpac (the original financiers) in respect of A$250 million debt facilities provided to Crescent Capital to fund its acquisition of a large engineering company Bremick and its subsidiaries.

Dealers and Joint Lead Managers to Mirvac

Advised the Dealers and Joint Lead Managers on Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF) Finance Company’s AMTN programme establishment and inaugural issuance.

MLAs to Bain Capital

Advised the Mandated Lead Arrangers on the debt facilities provided to Bain Capital to fund the take-private acquisition of Estia Health, an aged care operator and ASX-listed business. The transaction was structured as a scheme of arrangement with 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.