Our expertise covers a broad range of wholesale, retail and multi-jurisdictional fund structures, including parallel unit trusts, parallel offshore funds, feeder funds, funds of funds, pooled development funds, innovation investment funds, pre-seed funds, directly managed funds and venture capital limited partnerships.
We have provided long-standing support to the private equity industry including dealing with the reforms to state limited partnership legislation to facilitate the use of venture capital limited partnerships, preparing the industry standard limited partnership deed for the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and by preparing the publication by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association on why and how to invest in private equity.
‘A string of first-rate partners’
Asia Pacific Legal 500, 2005Practical Law Company’s 2007 Which Lawyer Yearbook ranked Al Donald as one of the two leading private equity lawyers in Australia.
Kon Mellos alone has advised on the establishment and investment in over 100 private equity funds totalling more than $10 billion.
Experience
- advised ABN AMRO Capital Management on the formation of ABN AMRO Capital Australia Fund II—including the formation of offshore parallel funds for offshore investors (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised Advent Private Capital on the formation of Advent V (Kon Mellos, Partner)
- advised Allen & Buckeridge on the formation of Allen & Buckeridge Emerging Technologies Fund (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised ANZ Bank on the formation of ANZ Business Equity Fund (Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised Archer Capital on the formation of Archer Capital Private Equity Funds No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Al Donald, Partner and Damien Hazard, Partner)
- advised Catalyst on the formation of Catalyst Buy-Out Funds No. 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Damien Hazard, Partner)
- advised Centre for Energy and Greenhouse Technologies on the formation of CEGT Trusts (Kon Mellos, Partner)
- advised GBS Ventures on the formation of Genesis Fund (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised Goldman Sachs JB Were on the formation of its collateral mezzanine fund (Al Donald, Partner and Damien Hazard, Partner)
- advised Gresham Private Equity on the formation of Gresham Private Equity Fund 2 which included the Gresham Private Equity Co-Investment Fund (Al Donald, Partner and Damien Hazard, Partner)
- advised Sciventures on the formation of Sciventures Pre-Seed Fund (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised Starfish Ventures on the formation of Starfish Pre-Seed Fund and Starfish Technology Fund I, LP—the first ever incorporated limited partnership in Australia (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner)
- advised Starfish Ventures on the formation of Starfish Technology Fund II (Kon Mellos, Partner and Ben Davey, Partner).
Key contacts
Al Donald – Sydney
Mark Crean – Sydney
Ben Davey – Melbourne
Kon Mellos – Melbourne