About Adrian Amer
Adrian specialises in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and corporate advisory (listed and unlisted entities). He is a core member of Allens' equity capital markets, private capital and corporate advisory and governance working groups.
Adrian commenced his career in Australia and joined the Allens team in 2018 after a four-year stint in the United Kingdom, where he first studied at the University of Cambridge and then worked in London in the M&A and Capital Markets team of Slaughter and May. During that time, he also had the opportunity to work across Europe (including alongside Linklaters) as a consultant to Ørsted, Denmark's largest energy company and owner of the world's largest offshore wind farms.
M&A
Adrian’s relevant M&A experience includes advising:
- Anglicare: Acquisition of Infinite Care to create a national platform across 42 homes in NSW, QLD, VIC and SA with ~7,000 staff
- Lactalis: NZ$4.22bn proposed acquisition of Fonterra's consumer and associated businesses
- TPG Telecom: $5.25bn sale of its Enterprise, Government and Wholesale fixed business to Vocus
- Stockland: establishment of logistics capital partnerships with M&G Real Estate, with an initial gross asset value of $415m; and (ii) KKR with an initial gross asset value of $388m
- Symphony Infrastructure Partners: $488m energy transition infrastructure equity investment and financing by Blackstone
- AUB Group: acquisition of Whittles by MGA
- AUB Group: acquisition of Pacific Indemnity
- LOGOS: joint venture with Qube and National Intermodal Corporation in respect of the construction and operation of the interstate rail terminal at the $4.2bn Moorebank Logistics Park
- Malteries Soufflet: $1.5bn acquisition of United Malt Group by way of scheme of arrangement
- Stonepeak Partners and Skip Essential Infrastructure Fund: consortium arrangements, acquisition of 19.9% interest in Genex Power and $350m proposed acquisition of Genex Power by way of scheme of arrangement
- AUB Group: up to $1.05bn (comprising an $880m purchase price and up to $176m deferred consideration) acquisition of Tysers Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd's insurance broker
- Australian Clinical Labs: investment in Geneseq, a leading biosciences cancer diagnostics business
- Aliro Group: $403m proposal to acquire Australian Unity Office Fund by way of scheme of arrangement
- Global Infrastructure Partners: acquisition by GIP of a 49% stake in Pluto Train 2 from Woodside with a $7.6bn (US$5.6bn) capital expenditure
- AUB Group: acquisition of Strata Unit Underwriting Agency from IAG
- Aristocrat: $5bn recommended cash offer for Playtech plc
- AUB Group: acquisition of SRS Broking
- Class: $386m takeover by HUB24 implemented by way of scheme of arrangement
- AUB Group: acquisition of Vaughan & Monaghan
- LOGOS: $7.04bn (US$5.2bn) acquisition of ARA Asset Management by ESR, consolidating the largest logistics real estate platform in Asia Pacific, to create a platform with combined assets under management of US$129bn
- AUB Group: acquisition of iaAnyware
- Global Infrastructure Partners: $1bn (US$750m) investment into a newly established JV with TotalEnergies, in relation to its interest in the Gladstone LNG Project downstream infrastructure facilities
- LOGOS: the LOGOS consortium on the $1.67bn acquisition of the warehousing and property components of Qube's Moorebank Logistics Park
- Infratil: Powering Australia Renewables and Mercury NZ's NZ$2.7bn takeover offer for Tilt Renewables
- Global Infrastructure Partners: $3.3bn acquisition of a 26.25% interest in the Queensland Curtis LNG common facilities from Shell
- Stockland: establishment of a $1bn logistics, industrial capital partnership with JP Morgan Asset Management
- AUB Group: restructure of its underwriting agencies division and the acquisition of 360 Underwriting Solutions
- LOGOS: $418m sale of a portfolio of five east coast Australian industrial logistics properties to the Singaporean-listed ARA LOGOS REIT
- AUB Group: acquisition of Experien Insurance
- Aristocrat: various M&A matters, corporate governance and disclosure advice
- Zenith Energy: the $250m takeover by a consortium comprising Pacific Equity Partners, OPTrust and ICG implemented by way of scheme of arrangement
- LOGOS: sale of a majority stake to ARA Asset Management and sell-down by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Real Estate
- Qube: successful cash or scrip takeover bid of Chalmers Limited
- AUB Group: proposed acquisition of Coverforce
- Public Sector Pension Investment Boar: sale of a 25% stake in the $1.4bn DP World Australia business to DP World and Corsair Capital
- Sunsuper: various investment mandate and M&A matters
- NSW Treasury Corporation: sale of its 25% stake in International Parking Group
- China Communications Construction Company: foreign investment approval aspects of the acquisition by John Holland Group of assets of RCR Thomlinson Limited
- TPG Capital: acquisition of Safe Work Laboratories by Pathology Asia Holdings
- Ørsted: development of the Formosa I offshore wind farm
- Ørsted: acquisition by Green Investment Group of a 25% stake in Westermost Rough wind farm from Marubeni Corporation
- GoCompare Group plc: £460m unsolicited takeover approach from ZPG plc
- Arrow Global Group plc: acquisition of Mars Capital's Irish mortgage servicing business
- UGL: $1.215bn sale of its global property services business, DTZ.
Equity Capital Markets
Adrian’s relevant equity capital markets experience includes advising:
- Minerals 260: $50m equity subscription as part of a $220m strategic funding package from Franco-Nevada
- Lotus Resources: ~$76m placement and share purchase plan
- AUB Group: $400m placement to fund the acquisition of Prestige and $40m share purchase plan
- Macquarie Capital: as joint lead manager and underwriter on 29Metals' $150m entitlement offer
- Barclays, Wells Fargo and Cantor Fitzgerald: as underwriters to Anteris Technologies' US$230m offering of common stock
- Morgan Stanley and Canaccord Genuity: as joint lead managers and underwriters to Vulcan Energy's $1.1 billion institutional placement and entitlement offer
- Macquarie Capital: as lead manager to L1 Group's $300m institutional placement, share purchase plan and First Maven sell down
- Macquarie Capital: as lead manager and underwriter to ALS' $350m institutional placement
- Jefferies: as lead manager and underwriter to Generation Development Group's $287.9m placement and entitlement offer to fund the $320m acquisition of Evidentia
- TD Cowen, Barclays and Cantor: as joint book-running managers to the redomicile and Nasdaq IPO of Anteris Technologies
- Morgan Stanley and Canaccord Genuity: as joint lead managers and underwriters to Vulcan Energy's $184m placement and share purchase plan
- Macquarie Capital and Jarden: as joint lead managers and underwriters to 29Metals' 2024 $180m institutional placement and entitlement offer
- Macquarie Capital and Barrenjoey: as joint lead managers and underwriters to Pinnacle Investment Management Group's $400m placement and share purchase plan
- Macquarie Capital: as lead manager and underwriter to Elders' $246m entitlement offer to fund the proposed $475m acquisition of Delta Ag
- Anson Resources: 2024 share purchase plan and offer of unlisted options under prospectus
- Morgan Stanley and DBS Bank: as joint lead managers for Highfield Resources' institutional placement and share purchase plan in connection with its strategic transactions to transform into a globally diversified potash company
- Morgan Stanley: as underwriter to Domino's 2024 Pizza Enterprises' dividend reinvestment plan
- Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, Truist Securities and William Blair: as joint book-running managers for the proposed IPO of Telix Pharmaceuticals
- AUB Group: $200m placement to fund the acquisition of Pacific Indemnity and future M&A and $25m share purchase plan
- Jefferies: as lead manager and underwriter to Generation Development Group's $155m entitlement offer to fund the $197m acquisition of the remaining stake in Lonsec
- Macquarie Capital: as lead manager to Cyclopharm's 2024 placement
- Barrenjoey and Macquarie Capital: as joint lead managers and underwriters to Metcash's $300m placement and share purchase plan to fund the acquisitions of Superior Food, Bianco and Alpine Truss
- Morgans, National Australia Bank and E&P: as joint lead managers to Gryphon Capital Income Trust's $97.3m entitlement and shortfall offer
- Taylor Collinson, E&P, Morgans and Ord Minnett: as joint lead managers to Metrics Master Income Trust's $175m placement and unit purchase plan
- Macquarie Capital: as sole lead manager and underwriter to Karoon Energy's $480m entitlement offer
- Jefferies and Bell Potter: as joint lead managers and underwriters to Aeris Resources' $30m entitlement offer
- Macquarie Capital and Jarden: as joint lead managers and underwriters to 29Metals' 2023 $151m entitlement offer
- Morgan Stanley: as underwriter to Domino's 2023 Pizza Enterprises' dividend reinvestment plan
- AUB Group: $150m placement and $15m share purchase plan
- Aristocrat: $1.3bn entitlement offer
- AUB Group: $350m entitlement offer
- Qube: $500m entitlement offer
- Magellan Asset Management: $275m offering and ASX listing of Magellan High Conviction Trust
- esure Group: £302m demerger and premium listing of Gocompare.com Group plc on the London Stock Exchange
- Commonwealth Government of Australia: $5.9bn initial public offering and ASX listing of Medibank Private
- Morgan Stanley: as sole lead manager and underwriter to National Storage REIT's $59m placement and share purchase plan; as sole lead manager and underwriter to the $240m initial public offering and ASX listing
- Goldman Sachs, J.P Morgan, Morgan Stanley, UBS, ANZ Securities and Westpac Institutional: ANZ's $1bn offer of Capital Notes 2 and concurrent CPS1 reinvestment offer
- SG Fleet Group: $454m initial public offering and ASX listing
- Pact Group Limited: restructuring aspects of $650m initial public offering and ASX listing
- ASX Limited: $553m entitlement offer.