Mergers & Acquisitions – Recent experience
Our mergers and acquisition experience includes:
Rio Tinto
Advising Rio Tinto on its response to BHP's US$192 billion takeover approach,
and on the Australian aspects of its $44 billion acquisition of Alcan.
St.George
Advising St.George Bank on the A$67 billion merger proposal from Westpac.
Wesfarmers / Coles
Advised Wesfarmers on its A$20 billion acquisition of Coles.
CEMEX
Advised CEMEX on its US$15.3 billion successful acquisition of Rinker.
Zinifex
Advising Zinifex on its A$12 billion merger with Oxiana.
Conoco Phillips
Advised Conoco Phillips on its joint venture with Origin Energy.
Qantas
Advised Qantas on the proposed A$11.1 billion takeover by the Airline Partners consortium.
CSL
Advised CSL on its US$3.1 billion acquisition of US blood plasma group Talecris Biotherapeutics,
the largest healthcare acquisition ever by an Australian company.
Dyno Nobel
Advising Dyno Nobel on its A$3.3 billion merger with Incitec Pivot.
MBF
Advised MBF on its demutualisation and A$2.4 billion merger with BUPA Australia.
OneSteel
Advised OneSteel on its $A2.3 billion scheme of arrangement with Smorgon Steel.
Macquarie
Advised Macquarie Advanced Investments Group in relation to the A$836 million take
private proposal for the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group. This deal represents
the first Australian use of ‘stub equity’.
Healthscope /Symbion
Advising Healthscope on its A$2.8 billion merger with Symbion.
Dairy Farmers
Advising on sale of Dairy Farmers to National Foods for A$910 million.
Bendigo Bank
Advised Bendigo Bank on its A$1.9 billion merger with Adelaide Bank. Also
advised on its proposed A$2.4 billion merger with the Bank of Queensland.
AGL
Advising AGL on the sale of its assets in Papua New Guinea for A$1.1 billion.
Basslink
Advised CitySpring Infrastructure Trust on its A$1.17 billion winning bid for
the Basslink undersea electricity transmission cable.
Brambles
Advised Brambles on a range of divestments and the unique arrangement which
unified Brambles Industries Limited and Brambles Industries plc to become the
single holding company Brambles Limited. The financial value of the deal was
approximately A$25.8 billion which included the US$1.35 billion sale of
Cleanaway Australia and New Zealand to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Coates Hire
Advised Coates Hire on the proposed A$1.65 billion takeover by the National Hire
Group and the Carlyle Group.
Queensland Government
Advised the Queensland Government on the A$2.7 billion sale of Sun Retail, Sun
Gas, Allgas and Powerdirect.
ANZ
Advised ANZ on its A$1 billion acquisition of a stake in Malaysian bank, AMMB
Holdings Berhad.
MIIF/Taiwan Broadband Communications
Advising Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) on the
US$178 million acquisition of a 20 per cent stake in Taiwan Broadband
Communications from Och-Ziff Capital Management Group.
News Corporation re-incorporation in United States
Advised News Corporation on its re-incorporation into the United States.
