Overview
No other law firm in Australia can match the depth and breadth of Freehills’ buy-out experience. We have advised on many of the landmark buy-out transactions over recent years. Our market leading experience ensures that we are familiar with the issues our clients are likely to face and are able to deal with them quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.
Our experience stretches back to advising the private equity syndicate that backed the public to private management buy-out of the Just Jeans Group (the first private equity backed listed company acquisition in Australia in over a decade). More recently we have been involved in bids involving a private equity firm partnering with a trade buyer to make the purchase (for example Tempo Services) and in proposals for private equity funds to joint venture with listed entities (for example Seven Network and KKR, Flight Centre and Pacific Equity Partners).
We pride ourselves on our strategic thinking and our technical ability to ensure optimal deal execution. We have developed market leading precedents and processes to integrate the four main streams of activity being: due diligence and acquisition, leveraged finance, consortium arrangements, and management equity participation.
