Acquisition Finance

Our acquisition finance team advises lenders, borrowers, investment banks, and consultants across the full spectrum of corporate and acquisition financing transactions. This includes leveraged buy-outs and buy-ins, trade sales, recapitalisations, public takeovers, IPOs, and related corporate activities.

We deliver a comprehensive service, working closely with our corporate, competition, employment, real estate, restructuring, and tax teams.

Our approach is proactive and focused—managing risk effectively while ensuring cost and process certainty for our clients.

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Acquisition Finance

Our experience

  • A major Australian trading bankActed in connection with acquisition finance facilities provided to the purchasers of Focus on Furniture.
  • Ridley Corporation Advised in relation to a $350 million club facility with major Australian banks to refinance existing debt and provide new acquisition lines to fund the acquisition of the Incitec Pivot fertiliser distribution business from Dyno Nobel for $300 million.
  • Crane Industry Acted for a major player in the Australian crane industry in connection with its $100 million debt facilities to support the acquisition of a competitor business.
  • Owners of the Décor business Acted in relation to vendor finance provided in connection with the sale of Décor to a South African private firm (C2C Capital).
  • A major Australian trading bankActed in relation to syndicated facilities provided to the Dixon Hospitality Group to fund the acquisition of various portfolios and stand alone pubs, hotels and other hospitality businesses.
  • A major Australian trading bank Acted in connection with acquisition finance facilities provided to the purchasers of Smoke Alarm Solutions Australia.
  • A major Australian trading bank Acted in respect of acquisition facilities provided to Blue Sky Private Equity for the purchase of an integrated Citrus producer.
  • Public transport industryActing for the club financiers of one of Australia’s largest operators in the public transport industry, which featured a multi-layered security sharing structure with the borrower’s asset financiers.
  • Lead arrangers/underwriters Acting for the lead arrangers/underwriters in the club (and then restructured as syndicated) financing for Wesfarmers’ bid for Coles by way of scheme of arrangement.
  • Pact Group Limited Acted in relation to its syndicated debt facilities as part of its IPO.