- Gresham Advisory Partners
Michael Ashforth
Branch office
Advised WA Newspapers (with GoldmanSachsJBWere) on Seven Network's board takeover, post Seven's $450m investment
Advised Murchison on divestment of 50% of its Jack Hills & other mid west iron ore projects and establishment of infrastructure business with Mitsubishi Dev**
Advised RAC on acquisition of 50% interest in St Ives Group
Advised WA Newspapers on $135m disposal of 50% interest in Hoyts
Advisor to Murchison Metals over $1.3bn takeover offer for Midwest Corp, followed by proposed $1.5bn merger via scheme of arrangement
Advised (with Macquarie) Wesfarmers on $20.7bn Coles Group takeover*
Defence advisor to PCH on $250m hostile takeover by Cape
Advisor to Gem Diamonds on $300m takeover of Kimberley Diamond company
Advisor to Iluka on $55m sale of Narama coal interest to Xstrata
Advised Brandrill on acquisition of DT Hi-load
- Azure
Michael Minosora
Head office
Adviser to Gemco Rail on $34m trade sale to Coote Industrial
Adviser to Nova Energy in its defence against $275m Toro Energy takeover
Advising Macmahon (with UBS) on $476m bid for Ausdrill, and on
Leighton's 15% investment in Macmahon
Advising Abra Mining on the $76m proposed proportional takeover by Hunan NMC
Advised Home during $592m merger by scheme of arrangement with Bank of Queensland
Advised Gindalbie Metals in $2.4bn friendly merger with Sundance Resources - merger did not go ahead
Advised Golden West Resources on defence of $191m takeover by Fairstar Resources
- UBS
Richard Saywell
Branch office^^
Advising CopperCo on $530m merger with MinSec
Advised Mount Gibson on its successful Takeovers Panel application to prevent the proposed sale of 20% by Gazmetall to Shougang for $460m
Advising Macmahon (with Azure) on $476m takeover offer for Ausdrill
Advised Multiplex on $7.5bn takeover by Brookfield*
Advised Perilya on proposed $489m merger with CBH Resources##
Advised Palmary on contested $1.15bn takeover of Consolidated Minerals
Advised Macmahon on $100m purchase of 15% stake by Leighton
- Morgan Stanley
No Perth office
Advised Jubilee Mines on $3.1bn takeover by Xstrata
Advised Midwest in regard to $1.36bn takeover bid from Sinosteel, and on $1.3bn takeover offer by Murchison, followed by proposed $1.5bn merger scheme
- JP Morgan
No Perth office
Advised Consolidated Minerals during $1.15bn bidding war by Territory, Pallinghurst and Palmary
Advising Sinosteel in $1.36bn takeover bid for Midwest Corp
Advised Alinta on $8bn sale to Babcock/Singapore Power**
- Macquarie
Martin Alciaturi
Branch office
Advised Antam and Zhongjin (Tango) on $550m
joint bid for Herald Resources*
Advised Tap (value $250M-$300m) on defence from Poynton
consortium which never went to bid
Advised Xstrata on $3.1bn takeover of Jubilee Mines*
Jointly advising ARC Energy defence on $463m merger with AWE (with ABN)
Advised PEP on $135m acquisition of half share of Hoyts from WAN*
Advised Leighton on 15% ($100m) investment in Macmahon
Advised (with Gresham) Wesfarmers on $20.7bn Coles Group takeover*
Advised Straits Resources on demerger
Advised Great Southern on private equity approaches
Advised Mitsubishi on 50% puchase of Jack Hills from Murchison and establishment of infrastructure business**
- Euroz Securities
Karl Paganin
Head office
Advised Herald Resources on $550m takeover bids from
Antam and Zhingjin (Tango) and PT Bumi
Advised Equigold in relation to $1.12bn merger with Lihir
Advised iiNet in $81m acquisition of Westnet
Advised Sphere on $441m sale of 49.9% stake in iron ore JV to
Qatar Steel and Saudi Arabian Basic
- Argonaut Capital
Charles Fear
Head office
Advising (with Lazard Carnegie Wylie) Ausdrill on $476m
defence from Macmahon bid
Advised Kimberley Diamonds (with CIBC) in $300m takeover
by Gem Diamonds
Advised Territory Resources (with Lehman Bros) on $1bn bid for Consmins
Advised Omega Corp defence of Denison Mines $200m bid
Advised Elixir on $35m merger with Gawler
Advised Mantra on $107m merger with Mavuzi
- Ernst and Young
Michael Anghie
Branch office
Adviser to Tokyo Gas on their acquisition of a strategic interest
in and purchase of LNG from the Pluto LNG project
Adviser to Nexus Energy on $75m sale of a 15% interest in
the Crux Project located in the Browse Basin, offshore WA
Advisor to Burrup Holdings on $500m JV development of Burrup
ammonia nitrate project, with Yara ASA
Advised Gull Petroleum on acquisition of Peak
Advised on $80m sale of Ultra Trace to Amdel
Advised India NRE Minerals Ltd on $1bn takeover
Gujarat NRE Resources^
Advised Super Cheap Auto on their acquisition of Goldcross Cycles^
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
Angel Barrio
Branch office
Advised Finance and Systems Technology Pty Ltd (FAST), on the
$50m national mortgage aggregation business sale to Challenger Financial
Advised United Farmers Co-operative Company Ltd on its $20m
merger with New Zealand's Ravensdown
Advised Cape Plc on the $85m acquisition of TCC Group
Advised St Ives Group's sale of 49% interest to RAC
Advised Forge Group on its $26m acquisition of Abesque Engineering and Construction
Advised Perilya on proposed merger with CBH Resources##
- Merrill Lynch
Neville Gardiner
Branch office, Australian natural resources divisional HQ.
Advised Nido Petroleum on the farm out of its major oil and
gas exploration projects in the Philippines.
Advised on the sell down of Gazmetall's $415m 20% stake in Mount Gibson
Advising Allegiance Mining on its defence to the $800m hostile bid from Zinifex#
Advised Beadell Resources on its $280m acquisition of the Cracow mine from Newcrest and LionSelect
Advising BHP Billiton on its $140bn bid for Rio Tinto*
- KPMG
Adrian Arundell
Branch office
Advised Westnet on $81m sale to iiNet
Advised EIW Holdings on $150m sale to Rexel SA
Advised Peak on sale to Gull
Advised Testing & Control Services on sale to SGS
Advised DJ MacCormick on $40m sale to Walter Diversified
Advised HE Parts on $25m acquisition of Birrana Engineering
#Also advised Cerebos on $400-500m potential acquisition of Symbion Consumer products, advised AMP Capital on proposed $1.1-1.2bn acquisition of Amity Aged Care and advised a shareholder of Contrelec on $33m sale to Sedgman/Intermet
- PCF
Liam Twigger
Head office
Adviser to Harmony Gold on $45m sale of South Kal to Dioro
and $65m sale of Mt Magnet to Monarch Gold
Adviser to Monarch Gold on the $11m sale of Minjar Gold to Aard Metals
- Deloitte
Andrew Annand
Branch office
Advised Courier Australia on sale to Toll Holdings
Advised SWG on $40m sale to Programmed Maintenance Services
Advised Sojitz on acquisition of 30% interest in Grange's Southdown magnetite project
Caliburn
No Perth office
Advised Cape on $250m bid for PCH
- BDO Kendalls
Sherif Andrawes
Branch office
Adviser to Kalassay's $26m sale to Inspicio plc
Adviser to RPS Plc's $33m acquisition of Metocean Engineers Pty Ltd
Adviser to Aspermont's $19m purchase of Mining Communications
Adviser to Jeminex acquisition of Worksense
- Pendulum Capital
Peter Fogarty
Head office
Adviser to McWilliams Wines purchase of Evans & Tate assets
Adviser to VDM on acquisitions of Malavoca ($60m), Bellero Constructions ($25m), Rocktec ($15m) and Como Engineers ($13m)
- Capital Investment Partners
Gavin Argyle
Head office
Advised Sundance Resources Ltd on $2.4bn friendly merger
with Gindalbie Metals. Merger did not take place.
- Deutsche
No Perth office
Advised Pallinghurst on contested $1.15bn bidding war for Consolidated Minerals
- RFC Corporate Finance
Stephen Allen
Branch office
Perth office played a role in advising Anzon on $600m bid from Roc, and prior offers from ARC and Nexus#
Mergers & Acquisitions
Ross Goldstein
Head office
Advised on Firemain/National Fire Solutions partial sale to
AMP Capital, total value approx $30m
- Transocean/Cardrona Capital
Alan Boys
Head office
Advised Esplanade Hotels Group on $28m acquisition of the Pagoda
Hotel assets from Westralia Property Management and other investors
- Cygnet Capital
Darian Jagger
Head office
Adviser to $14m merger of New Standard Energy and Hawk Resources
*Limited involvement of WA office.
** Deal completed 07-08.
^Non-WA transactions with lead WA input.
^^Several transactions conducted prior to Perth office opening.
#Non-WA transactions with significant WA input.
##Both worked on different aspects of the deal which did not go ahead.
