Areas of Service | Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our M&A team has experience in mergers, restructures, joint ventures, acquisitions and sales, having advised Australian and foreign-based corporations on transactions including numerous on-market takeovers and cross-border transactions. Trans-Tasman deals, in particular, are a specialty.
Middletons provides strategic mergers and acquisitions advice to a broad spectrum of industry sectors including retail, logistics, financial services, telecommunications, energy, construction, mining and healthcare.
We have the capability, skill and depth of resources to handle the most significant and complex M&A transactions. At the same time, we have the efficiency and competitiveness to deliver real value on small to medium sized M&A transactions.
Our philosophy is simple: we do the hard work so that from our clients’ perspective mergers and acquisitions are made easy. We have a dedicated and experienced team with the right mix of legal and commercial skills.
We have developed a precedents database second to none. We have honed our technical ability to put together secure data rooms – physical or virtual – and we have done some serious thinking about the science of dealmaking.
Our focus includes:
- structure: asset and share sales, proprietary and public companies, incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures, partnerships and incorporated associations
- tax: consolidations, capital gains tax, GST including going concerns and stamp duty
- due diligence: vendor and purchaser due diligence, and establishment and operation of data rooms
- documentation: non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, MOUs and heads of agreement, sale agreements and shareholders/joint venture agreements
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regulatory approvals: Foreign Investment Review Board and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission dealings.
