Experience

Our significant recent experience includes acting for vendors and issuers on the following transactions:

Capital raising

Contact
Commonwealth Bank of Australia on its issue of Perpetual Exchangeable Resaleable Listed Securities (PERLS IV) $1.47 billion hybrid offer; which was Australia’s largest ever franked hybrid securit

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

Australian Government's sale of its remaining stake in Telstra Corporation Limited (T3), which included a $15.5 billion equity offering of instalment receipts. This has been awarded FinanceAsia's Best Secondary Offering 2006 and INSTO’s Equity Deal of the Year 2006 and Issuer of the Year 2006

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303
Tony Sparks
tony.sparks@freehills.com
+61 2 92255758

Coeur D’Alene Mines Corporation on its USD$1.1 billion CDI (CHESS Depositary Instruments) listing on the ASX

Rebecca Maslen-Stannage
rebecca.maslen-stannage@freehills.com
+61 2 225 5500

Babcock & Brown on its innovative $7.9 billion acquisition of Alinta, in a consortium with Singapore Power, and associated equity and hybrid issuance by a number of Babcock & Brown managed funds

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303
Tim McEwen
tim.mcewen@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1549

Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group on its $725 million exchangeable bond issue and subsequent US$200 million offer of exchangeable bonds

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303
Tim McEwen
tim.mcewen@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1549

ABC Learning Centres Limited on its $600 million issue of convertible notes
Michael Ziegelaar
michael.zieglaar@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1422
Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group on its $625 million placement of ordinary securities

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303
Tim McEwen
tim.mcewen@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1549

Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund’s $560 million IPO

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303
Tim McEwen
tim.mcewen@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1549

WorleyParsons on its $480 million accelerated renounceable rights offer

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

 

Orchard Industrial Property Fund on its $345 million IPO

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

ThinkSmart Ltd on its $204 million IPO

David Gray
david.gray@freehills.com
+61 8 9211 7597

Austock Group Limited on its $214 million IPO
Michael Ziegelaar
michael.zieglaar@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1422
Allco HIT Ltd on its $107 million IPO

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

 

 

Goodman Fielder’s $2.12 billion IPO. This was awarded FinanceAsia’s IPO of the Year 2005 and CFO IPO of the Year 2006
Rebecca Maslen-Stannage
rebecca.maslen-stannage@freehills.com
+61 2 225 5500
SP AusNet’s $1.41 billion IPO and listing on the Australian and Singapore Stock Exchange. This was awarded ALB Equity Markets Deal of the Year 2006

Robert Nicholson
robert.nicholson@freehlls.com
+61 3 9288 1749

Pacific Brands' $1.25 billion IPO. This was awarded CFO Magazine Awards IPO of the Year 2004 and Asian Venture Capital Awards Exit of the Year 2004

 

Michael Ziegelaar
michael.zieglaar@freehills.com
+61 3 9288 1422

 

 

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

Royal & Sun Alliance (the vendor) on Promina Ltd's innovative, award winning $1.9 billion IPO

Philippa Stone
philippa.stone@freehills.com
+61 2 9225 5303

We recently acted for the lead managers/underwriters and related parties on the following transactions: