Mergers and Acquisitions

Recent experience includes advising:

• ANZ Bank New Zealand on the sale of UDC Finance to HNA Group.
• 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.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its acquisition of Academic Colleges Group, SCA Hygiene and Manuka Health New Zealand.
• 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$101m divestment of the Waihi Gold Mine to OceanaGold.
• Pacific Equity Partners on its $700m divestment of Griffin’s Foods to Universal Robina Corporation and Pacific Equity Partners on its sale of Tegel to Affinity Equity Partners.
• A bidder for Vector's gas assets.
• Fonterra on its $342m 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 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.
• ANZ Bank New Zealand on the sale of UDC Finance to HNA Group.
• CKI on its acquisition of EnviroWaste from Ironbridge.