Mergers and Acquisitions

Recent experience includes advising:

• Fonterra on its $633 million sale of a 50% share in DFE Pharma to CVC.  
• Trade Me on its takeover by UK private equity firm Apax Partners by way of scheme of arrangement for $2.6 billion.
• Carlyle Group on its US$717 million acquisition of Accolade Wines.
• Riverside on its acquisition of the Hiway Group.
• Samling Group on the sale of Hikurangi Forest Farms, which owns 35,000 ha of forestry in Gisborne.
• Pencarrow Private Equity on its minority investment in "The Collective" (Epicurean Dairy Holdings Limited).
• Advent International on its $1.05 billion acquisition of Nuplex Industries by way of a scheme of arrangement (M&A Deal of the Year and New Zealand Deal of the Year, 2017 New Zealand Law Awards).
• Nintex on its acquisition of process management software company Promapp.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its acquisition of Evolution Healthcare.
• intelliHUB on its acquisition of the Metrix metering business from Mercury Energy (intelliHUB is a Pacific Equity Partners portfolio entity).
• Pacific Equity Partners on its sale of Manuka Health New Zealand (and on its earlier acquisition of MHNZ).
• The founder on the sale of International Volunteer HQ to Mercury Capital.
• Fidelity Life, New Zealand’s largest NZ-owned life insurer, on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund's $100 million cornerstone investment.
• Inspired Education on its acquisition of the ACG schools business from Pacific Equity Partners.
• Spark on a number of minority and control investments, including acquisitions of NOW Consulting, Digital Island Limited and Ubiquity Software Limited; investments in Nyriad Technologies and Parkable; and divestments of Morepork and its stake in Feenix Communications.
• CPE Capital (formerly CHAMP Private Equity) on several key acquisitions and investments.
• PaySauce on its acquisition by Energy Mad Limited and subsequent reverse listing on the NZX.
• Bounty Fresh on its $430 million takeover of Tegel.
• The Riverside Company on its sale of Simcro.
• Emergent Cold on its acquisition of Polarcold.
• KKR on its acquisition of MYOB.
• Keppel Infrastructure Trust on its acquisition of Ixom.
• Inenco Group in acquiring the business and assets of HCD Flow Technology Limited.
• Manuka Health New Zealand Limited on its acquisition of Neuseelandhaus GmbH, a German based distributor.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its acquisition of the APAC business of Horizon Global.  
• Pacific Equity Partners on its acquisition of Academic Colleges Group.
• Primavera Capital and Shanghai Pharma on their consortium acquisition (via a scheme of arrangement) of Vitaco Holdings.
• CDH Fund V on its acquisition of an 80% interest in The Better Health Company (otherwise known as ‘Go Healthy’).
• Lion on its acquisitions of Havana Coffee, Panhead and Emerson's craft breweries.  
• Crescent Capital Partners Management and New Zealand Panels Group on the acquisition of the Bestwood and Kopine businesses from Carter Holt Harvey.
• CITIC on its investment in LanzaTech.
• Oaktree Capital on the restructuring of, and investment in, the Mediaworks Group.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its AU$670 million acquisition of 50% of SCA Hygiene Australasia.
• Crescent Capital Partners Management on its sale of Simply Squeezed to Frucor.
• Exponent Private Equity on its acquisition, through a portfolio entity, of Tui Garden Products.
• Advent International on its $1.05 billion acquisition of Nuplex Industries by way of scheme of arrangement.
• The shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in My Food Bag to Waterman Capital.
• Fairfax on its proposed merger with NZME.
• Dell on the New Zealand aspects of its acquisition of EMC.
• Meridian Energy and Genesis Energy on its participation in the Mixed Ownership Programme.
• The shareholders of Hally Labels in their divestment of the Hally Labels group to Hexagon.
• Newmont Mining Corporation on its US$101 million divestment of the Waihi Gold Mine to OceanaGold.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its $700 million divestment of Griffin’s Foods to Universal Robina Corporation.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its sale of Tegel to Affinity Equity Partners.
• A bidder for Vector's gas assets.
• Fonterra on its $342 million joint venture with Abbott Laboratories, to develop a hub of five large scale dairy farms in China.
• Complectus/Perpetual Guardian on its acquisitions of New Zealand Trustee Services, Corporate Trust, Covenant Trustee Services and Documents Plus.
• Wells Fargo on the New Zealand aspects of its acquisition of GE Capital’s commercial distribution finance, accounts receivable and factoring business.
• Telecom (now Spark) on the demerger of Telecom into two separate entities, and on Telecom and Chorus’ involvement in the Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative.
• Amphenol Corporation on its acquisition of Phitek by way of amalgamation.
• Turners & Growers Limited on the takeover by BayWa AG.
• CKI on its acquisition of EnviroWaste from Ironbridge.