Mergers & Acquisitions
Experience
Freehills has recently advised clients on landmark transactions including:
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| Wesfarmers’ $20 billion acquisition of Coles Group. The deal was completed through a scheme of arrangement, which followed an extensive, worldwide sales process. |  |
Rodd Levy |
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CEMEX’s $17.5 billion acquisition of Rinker Group, the largest completed takeover bid ever in Australia |
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Andrew Pike +61 2 9225 5085 |
| Singapore Power / Babcock & Brown consortium’s $7.9 billion acquisition of Alinta, which was one of the most significant infrastructure M&A transactions in Australian history. |
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Philippa Stone
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| Promina on the $7.87 billion merger with Suncorp Metway; which was one of the largest ever financial sector mergers in Australian corporate history; This transaction recently won INSTO Awards 2008 M&A Deal of the Year. |
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Philippa Stone |
| Texas Pacific Group / Newbridge Capital – members of the Airline Partners of Australia (APA) consortium – on its unsuccessful $11.1 billion takeover of Qantas Airways Ltd. |  |
Baden Furphy +61 3 9288 1399 |
| Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (in conjunction with Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II) on its joint $4.8 billion acquisition of Airwave O2 Limited; each party owning 50 per cent of Airwave. |  |
Fiona Gardiner-Hill +61 2 9225 5327 |
| San Miguel Corporation on its $3 billion divestment of National Foods to Kirin and of Boags to Lion Nathan. |  |
Robert Nicholson +61 3 9288 1749 |
| National Hire Group Limited on its successful $2.9 billion scheme of arrangement with The Carlyle Group to acquire Coates Hire Limited, the largest leveraged buy out of a listed company in Australian history. |  |
Mark Crean +61 2 9225 5724 |
| Fairfax Media’s $2.7 billion merger with Rural Press, creating one of the largest media businesses in Australasia. |
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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage |
| Arqiva / Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group on Arqiva’s £2.5 billion purchase of National Grid Wireless. |
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Fiona Gardiner-Hill +61 2 9225 5327 |
| Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation’s USD$1.1 billion merger with Bolinisi Gold and Palmarejo Silver & Gold, to create the world’s largest silver company. |
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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage |
| Centennial Coal Company Limited on its effectively simultaneous $1.1 billion sale of its 85% majority stake in Austral Coal through Xstrata’s takeover and of its Anvill Hill project, with subsequent $600 million capital return. |
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Tony Damian +61 2 9225 5784 |
| BUPA on its $2.41 billion acquisition proposal for MBF and its acquisition of DCA’s aged care assets. |
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Bradley Russell +61 2 9225 5877 |
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DCA Group on its $2.7 billion acquisition by CVC Asia Pacific and CVC Capital Partners. |
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Leon Pasternak +61 2 9225 5252
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