Olivia Christensen is a Special Counsel in HWLE’s Corporate team, specialising in capital raisings, securities law, mergers and acquisitions and control transactions (including via members’ schemes of arrangement, corporate advisory and transactional law.
Olivia assists clients across a range of industries (including health/med-tech, banking/financial sector companies, software/Saas, industrials, exploration and mining) and across both the private and listed sectors.
Olivia has had over 20 years’ experience in project managing complex transactions.
Best Lawyers™ Australia 2021 – Equity Capital Markets.
Expertise
Experience
- Vendors and ASX Issuers Acting on a number of backdoor listing /RTO transactions to achieve re-admission or re-quotation of a newly consolidated entity.
- Issuers Advising on IPOs and numerous secondary raisings involving various structures (including placements, a variety of rights issue structures and share purchase plans).
- Foreign Issuers Acting on secondary listings on the ASX.
- Bidders and Targets Advising in control transactions, including via court supervised members’ schemes of arrangement.
- ADIs Advising on their acquisition of other banking businesses or sale of their banking businesses.
- Lead Managers and Underwriters Acting in capital raising transactions.
- ASX listed entities Advising on a range of ASX compliance matters.
- Public companies Providing advice on Takeover Panel proceedings.
- Founders of Australian private tech company Advising on proposed exit (as part of a shareholder consortium) with anticipated transaction value of ~A$800 million.
- Private Advising buyers and sellers on a range of sale transactions of various structures.