About Aidan Shanley
Aidan specialises in M&A and equity capital markets transactions, as well as head office corporate advisory and listing rule compliance for ASX-listed clients.
He regularly advises clients on significant and complex private and public M&A transactions and has a particular expertise in capital markets transactions, including IPOs, secondary fundraisings, strategic investments and placements of equity and hybrid securities for listed entities.
Aidan has worked on secondment at Newcrest Mining and is a core member of the Allens equity capital markets working group.
He was also named in the Doyle's Guide list of Queensland Corporate & Commercial Law rising stars in 2022, 2024 and 2025.
Recent experience includes advising:
M&A
- News Corp: as majority shareholder on the sale of Foxtel to DAZN for $3.4bn
- Star Entertainment Group: on recapitalisation initiatives and on the proposed transaction with its joint venture partners in respect of the sale of the Queen's Wharf Brisbane Casino and Destination Gold Coast assets
- National Storage REIT: on the $1.9bn takeover proposal from Public Storage to acquire 100% of National Storage REIT's stapled securities, and competing takeover proposals from Warburg Pincus and Gaw Capital Partners
- QIC: on its acquisition of Sea Swift, Australia's largest privately owned shipping company, from CHAMP Ventures, Toll and management sellers
- Puma Energy: on the $425m sale of its Australian commercial and retail fuels business to Chevron
- Veolia: on Australian aspects of Veolia's €12.9bn acquisition of Suez, and the divestment of the Veolia / Suez Australian medical waste and C&I divestiture business to Remondis as part of the ACCC Undertaking given in connection with that acquisition
- NRMA: on its acquisition of Coral Expeditions from Kallang Capital and management sellers
- Tilt Renewables: which is jointly owned by AGL, QIC and the Future Fund, on its acquisition of a 50% interest in the 1.2GW Forest Wind Farm Project and joint venture arrangements with its development partner for that project
- QIC: on its proposed $494m take private of Superloop by way of scheme of arrangement
- Stanmore Coal: on its successful defence of the $249m hostile, off-market takeover offer by Golden Energy and Resources and response to the subsequent successful $256m on-market takeover bid
- Nutrien: on its $469m acquisition of Ruralco by way of scheme of arrangement
Equity Capital Markets
- UBS and Goldman Sachs: Joint Lead Managers to the $1.2bn GQG Partners IPO
- Credit Suisse, Jefferies and Bank of America: Joint Lead Managers to the $200m Latitude Financial IPO
- Insurance Australia Group (IAG): on its $775m capital raising (institutional placement and SPP)
- National Storage REIT:
- on multiple capital raisings totaling approximately $1.5bn raised, including ANREOs and SPPs
- on its $300m exchangeable note offering (listed on SGX)
- Glencore: on its investment via convertible notes and warrants in TSX-V and ASX-listed Macarthur Minerals Limited
- National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC): on its $200m convertible note investment in ASX-listed Arafura Rare Earths Limited as part of the funding towards the development of the Nolans project
- Morgans: Lead Manager and Underwriter to Gold Hydrogen IPO
- EROAD:
- on its ASX dual-listing and concurrent NZ$53m capital raising
- on its NZ$80.4m capital raising (institutional placement and SPP) to fund the NZ$$188.3m acquisition of Coretex Limited
- Novonix on:
- on its $205m private placement to Phillips 66 to acquire a 16% stake in Novonix
- on its $146m capital raising (institutional placement, strategic placement and SPP)
- on its US$30m convertible note issue to LG Energy Solutions
- on its US$100m convertible note facility with Yorkville Advisors
- G8 Education: on its $308m capital raising (institutional placement and ANREO)
- Aurelia Metals: on its $40m placement and ANREO, and issue of warrants to Trafigura, as part of a $140m debt and equity refinancing
- Corporate Travel Management: on its $100m capital raising (institutional placement and SPP) to fund the $175m acquisition of Helloworld's corporate travel business
- AIC Mines: on its $65m capital raising (institutional placement, conditional placement and SPP)
- Anson Resources: on its institutional placement, SPP and attaching options issue
- Electric Power Development Co. Ltd. (J-Power): on its strategic 19.99% equity investment in ASX-listed Genex Power Limited
- QIC on behalf of the Queensland Critical Minerals and Battery Technology Fund: equity investment in connection with financing for ASX-listed EQ Resources Limited.