Deals

Kangaroo bonds

Advised on the establishment of a number of kangaroo bond programmes.

Alceon Private Equity

Advised Alceon Private Equity on the sale of efex to Advent Partners.

Sunshine Coast Airport

Advised Sunshine Coast Airport on a refinancing of bank debt facilities, a construction facility, and a working capital facility.

St Gobain

Advised Paris Stock Exchange-listed Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. on its A$4.5 billion acquisition of CSR Limited by way of a scheme of arrangement.

Realm Investment House

Advised on a $425 million initial public offering of Dominion Income Notes 1, an ASX-listed note offering, and admission as an ASX Debt Listing.

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.