David is a Partner in the firm’s corporate team. With over 20 years of experience, David advises on a wide range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions (both public and private) and equity capital market transactions, across various industries.
David’s capital raising expertise includes advising on initial public offerings, entitlement offers, placements, share purchase plans, backdoor listings and underwriting arrangements. His experience in mergers and acquisitions includes advising on public company takeovers, schemes of arrangements, negotiated sales and Takeovers Panel proceedings.
Beyond his transactional skillset, David advises on compliance with the ASX Listing Rules, corporate governance matters, directors’ duties, board spills, shareholder activism, FIRB matters, employee incentive schemes, share buy-backs, shareholder agreements, related party transactions, the JORC Code and various contractual matters.
Expertise
Experience
- Mergers and acquisitions Advising Wesfarmers, Woodside, Newmont, Westrac, Macmahon, Horizon Power, RAC and St Barbara in relation to various mergers and acquisitions.
- Initial public offerings Advising Pentanet, Catalano Seafoods, Orexplore Technologies, Osmond Resources, Black Mountain Energy, Kingsland Minerals, Aurumin, DY6 Metals, Merino & Co and ThinkSmart in relation to their initial public offerings and listings on the ASX.
- Secondary capital raisings Advising St Barbara, Paladin Energy, Pilbara Minerals, PYC Therapeutics, Sheffield Resources, Deep Yellow, Rubik Financial, Impact Minerals, Dotz Nano, Cullen Resources, Pentanet and Valmec in relation to various secondary capital raisings.
- Takeovers Panel proceedings Advising Gondwana Resources, Viento Group, Mount Gibson and DRD Gold in relation to various Takeovers Panel proceedings.
- Governance, restructuring and contractual matters Advising Wesfarmers, South32, Horizon Power, Westrac , Peet in relation to various governance, restructuring and contractual matters.
