Andrew’s practice includes:

• acting for bidders and targets on public market transactions (takeovers and schemes)
• acting for both vendors and purchasers in significant business acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures, including structuring and documenting transactions
• acting on management buy-outs and private equity transactions
• advising on all aspects of legislative compliance, including ASX Listing Rules, Corporations Law, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act and other relevant legislation
• acting for issuers and brokers in initial public offerings, rights issues and other share issues
• acting for tenderers in government privatisations and infrastructure projects
• advising clients on all aspects of general corporate practice, including reviewing and drafting contracts and other general advice

Major projects and clients

Andrew has been involved in a large number of transactions which include:

• acting for Rinker Group Limited in relation to the $17 billion takeover offer from Cemex
• acting for TAB Limited (New South Wales) in relation to the takeover offer by Tabcorp Holdings Limited (Victoria) and the prior merger proposal with UNiTAB Limited (Queensland)
• acting for Aegis plc on its acquisition by Scheme of Arrangement of Mitchell Communications
• acting for DB Capital Partners on the public to private of Tempo Cleaning Services
• Oracle's acquisition by Scheme of Arrangement of Ruleburst Holdings
• acting for Macquarie Bank on its joint venture with Virgin Money
• acting in relation to numerous disposals and acquisitions of assets and businesses including:
• CSR’s recent sale of its Sucrogen business to Wilmar International
• Archer Capital on the disposal of Rebel Sport
• Navis on the purchase of Photon’s field marketing business
• the sale to Westpac of the BT Financial Group by Principal Financial Group
• the re-organisation of General Electric’s Australian lender’s mortgage insurance business as part of the initial public offering by Genworth Financial in the United States