Corporate/M&A
Global Guide 2024 : Australia
Band 1
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+61 2 9263 4000About
Provided by Gilbert + Tobin
Gilbert + Tobin’s Corporate Advisory Group provides innovative solutions and project management for large-scale corporate transactions and advises on a range of related corporate issues. The team is made up of highly respected lawyers with skills appropriate to a range of merger and acquisition, and capital markets transactions. We achieve commercial results through creative solutions and perseverance.
Our services
Our services include:
- Corporate mergers, acquisitions and disposals, and related due diligence, tax and structuring issues.
- Joint ventures, including devising ownership, management and operational structures to meet commercial and regulatory requirements.
- Complex private equity structuring and consequent investment and exit transactions; including management and leveraged buy-outs.
- Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rule compliance issues.
- Australian Financial Services Licence applications and compliance for licensees.
- Company secretarial assistance to companies, including the establishment of companies, preparing minutes and resolutions for board and shareholder meetings, and undertaking statutory filings.
- IPOs, placements and rights issues for companies and managed funds.
- Capital management strategies, including buy-backs and capital reductions.
- Capital markets activities, including the structuring of complex capital instruments such as debenture and hybrid offerings and warrants.
Chambers Review
Gilbert + Tobin provides a greatly respected national offering that is noted for combining a breadth of capability with lean, efficient staffing and the ready provision of expertise precisely suited to the matter in hand. The firm handles many of the most complex and significant M&A and takeover deals and is acclaimed for combining pragmatism with a flair for novel solutions and providing a consistent and dedicated service. It is also in high demand by some of the most prominent domestic and international private equity players across the full investment fund life-cycle. Key clients include Afterpay, Atlas Arteria and TPG Capital.
Work Highlights
- Gilbert + Tobin advised UniSuper on its participation in the AUD24 billion acquisition of Sydney Airport by Sydney Aviation Alliance.
Strengths
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"They are incredibly responsive to attend to our needs and deliverables and very committed to our objectives and goals."
"My impression is that they are excellent to work with and responsive, and offer deep bench strength, breadth and commerciality."
"Their advice is always practical, calm, thoughtful and based on a thorough grasp of the issues in play."
"They are incredibly responsive to attend to our needs and deliverables and very committed to our objectives and goals."
"My impression is that they are excellent to work with and responsive, and offer deep bench strength, breadth and commerciality."
"Their advice is always practical, calm, thoughtful and based on a thorough grasp of the issues in play."
Notable Practitioners
Costas Condoleon co-heads the Gilbert + Tobin corporate and M&A team and, much admired for his specialised expertise in M&A, also advises on securities law and corporate governance issues from the Sydney office.
"Costas is very impressive, very user-friendly, really good at navigating complex matters."
"He is a good lawyer, very easy to work with, very good at getting the transaction outcome you want. He is one of the top M&A lawyers in Sydney."
Peter Cook is a highly regarded adviser on the most sophisticated transactions in both the public M&A and private equity spheres. Interviewees regularly testify to his commercial vision and strategic insight. He is based in Sydney.
"A doyen of the sector, his judgement and experience are unparalleled. He is the one you want to navigate through hard decisions."
Craig Semple is based in Melbourne and advises across a wide range of corporate issues, including not only large-scale acquisitions, mergers and takeovers, but also securities law and governance issues.
"He is a very good practitioner, very good to deal with and very capable."
Rachael Bassil commands a high level of recognition for her busy, Sydney-based private equity practice. She counts leading private equity firms, banks and listed companies among her clientele.
"With a perfect level of service, she is one of best lawyers I've had experience with."
"She takes a very experienced, commercial and effective approach and is well liked by the counterparties, not just by us as the client."
Karen Evans-Cullen, based in Sydney, frequently advises on high-value acquisitions and takeovers across a range of sectors. She is praised by clients for her legal expertise, as well as team and stakeholder management skills.
"Karen can explain complex issues in a calm and considered way using plain English, drawing on relevant and applicable past experiences and sharing them as part of her overall advice."
Tim Gordon is a partner in the Gilbert + Tobin Sydney office whose clientele includes ASX-listed companies and offshore private equity fund managers. He is noted for handling transactions with an ESG element.
"He continues to provide first-class advice on challenging matters and has an ability to deliver consistent results."
"Tim is a class act – pragmatic, commercial and thoughtful."
Ranked Lawyers at
Gilbert + Tobin
Australia
Members
Provided by Gilbert + Tobin
Adam D'Andreti
Adam Laura
Alex Kauye
Ben Macdonald
Bill Spain
Charles Bogle
Christopher Flynn
David Clee
David Josselsohn
Deborah Johns
Elizabeth Hill
Hiroshi Narushima
John Williamson-Noble
Julie Athanasoff
Justin Mannolini
Marcello Cardaci
Nirangjan Nagarajah
Peter Reeves
Sarah Turner
Tim Gordon
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