Freehills is recognised as a firm of choice in the most innovative, complex and strategic transactions and projects across the full spectrum of sectors including energy and resources, media, financial services, property, construction and health.
Some of our most recent deals include advising clients on the below transactions.
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- Rio Tinto’s US$15.2 billion rights issue.
- AXA SA’s $14 billion joint bid with National Australia Bank to acquire AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, and to then acquire AXA APH’s Asian operations for approximately $9.4 billion (prior to the AXA/NAB proposal, Freehills advised AXA SA on the AXA/AMP proposal).
- Santos’ $3 billion non-renounceable entitlement offer, with an innovative ‘blind date’ approach to the syndicate appointment.
- Woodside Petroleum’s $2.5 billion renounceable entitlement offer.
- Seven Network Limited’s merger by scheme of arrangement with WesTrac.
- Eldorado Gold Corporation’s $2.4 billion scrip acquisition of Sino Gold Mining Ltd.
- Myer Holding’s $2.4 billion IPO.
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s $2 billion recently announced issue of perpetual exchangeable resaleable listed securities (PERLS V).
- Prime Infrastructure’s (formerly Babcock & Brown Infrastructure) $1.8 billion recapitalisation.
- OZ Minerals’ $1.75 billion sale of key assets to China Minmetals.
- Pure Energy Resources’ takeover by BG Group for approximately $1.02 billion and the competing takeover bid by Arrow Energy.
- Viterra Inc’s, Canada’s largest grain handler, $1.6 billion acquisition of ABB Grain Ltd
- Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group’s $1.4 billion acquisition by CPPIB.
- Elders Limited’s combination of debt refinancing, equity raising and asset sale transactions to bring the company ‘back from the brink’.
- Woodside Energy’s $712.5 million sale of its interest in the Otway Gas Project in Victoria to Origin Energy Resources Ltd.
- Metcash’s acquisition of a 50.1% stake in the Mitre 10 Group by way of scheme of arrangement.
