Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Our approach to commercial transactions is to act with a thorough understanding of our clients' businesses, including their structures and the industries they operate in, and to deliver legally and commercially effective solutions which achieve operational and strategic imperatives.
The Addisons' Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions team comprises highly regarded lawyers with wide ranging expertise in all forms of corporate and commercial transactions and structures, gained both in Australia and overseas. Our partners include former partners of some of Australia's largest law firms as well as former in-house counsel of major companies. We bring not only skilled drafting and technical expertise to corporate transactions but also a focused and in-depth understanding of the practical and commercial requirements of such transactions.
We understand that corporate transactions necessarily involve a broad range of legal disciplines. We work together with members of other Addisons' practice groups as a cohesive, integrated team to deliver all of the legal advice and assistance needed to achieve the desired outcomes.
We believe that the best adviser to any client is one who understands and is interested in the client's business. For this reason, our approach is to develop long-term relationships with our clients which go beyond the completion of individual transactions.
Services include:
- mergers and acquisitions
- takeovers, by offer or scheme of arrangement
- initial public offerings
- public and private capital raisings
- acting for investors and investee companies in the private equity area
- management and leverage buyouts
- corporate reconstruction and schemes of arrangement
- joint ventures
- general commercial and contractual arrangements
- corporate governance
- compliance with ASX and Corporations Act
For further information please contact:
David Blackburn, Partner
Jeff Mansfield, Partner
Michael Ryan, Partner
David Selig, Partner
Renee Clugston, Senior Associate
Jennifer Delforce, Senior Associate