David Naoum
David is a Partner in the firm’s corporate team. 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.
With over 20 years of experience, David acts for clients across various industries, including energy and resources, mining services, construction and infrastructure services, agriculture, retail and technology.
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 corporate governance matters, directors’ duties, board spills, shareholder activism, FIRB matters, employee incentive schemes, share buy-backs, shareholder agreements and contractual matters. David also regularly advises ASX-listed entities on their compliance with the ASX Listing Rules, including their continuous disclosure obligations, related party transactions and the JORC Code.
Experience
David’s recent experience includes:
- Wesfarmers in relation to various acquisitions and contractual matters;
- Woodside in relation to various acquisitions and contractual matters;
- South32 in relation to a range of governance and restructuring matters;
- Newmont in relation to various acquisitions and contractual matters;
- Westrac in relation to various acquisitions, disposals, group restructuring and contractual matters;
- Horizon Power in relation to the sale of various assets, commercial and contractual matters;
- St Barbara in relation to various capital raisings and acquisitions;
- Peet in relation to various capital raisings, group restructuring and contractual matters;
- Macmahon in relation to its takeover of Decmil;
- RAC in relation to various acquisitions;
- 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;
- Swick Mining Services in relation to its takeover by DDH1;
- 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; and
- Gondwana Resources, Viento Group, Mount Gibson and DRD Gold in relation to various Takeovers Panel proceedings.