Chambers Review
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Corporate/M&A - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Allens offers a richly resourced and versatile group, handling some of Australia's highest-value and most significant cross-border and global public M&A transactions for a blue-chip, international clientele. The firm also acts for prominent private equity houses across the full spectrum of transactional issues and is able to draw on talent in capital markets, banking, funds and tax departments to provide a comprehensive offering, covering the full private equity life-cycle. It is active across a diverse range of industry sectors, including large-scale infrastructure and telecommunications, and is especially prominent on major takeovers and privatisations. Through its collaboration with its global alliance partner Linklaters, the firm offers fully integrated services across Asia and Australasia to advise on highly sophisticated, multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Strengths
Allens is the premiere private capital legal advisory firm nationally. Allens has an exceptional DNA of thoroughness, tenacity and work ethic.
They are committed to providing the right outcomes and go about it the right way by seeking pragmatic solutions without overcooking the advice and work involved.
They have fantastic expertise and are very responsive. In particular, all the partners are very personable, clear subject matter experts and very consistently reliable.
Notable practitioners
He's one of the leading Australian lawyers with deep M&A capabilities.
Vijay Cugati maintains a versatile and varied corporate practice from the Sydney office, offering over two decades' experience in the management of a comprehensive range of deal types, including public takeovers, carve-out transactions, schemes of arrangement, private acquisitions and disposals.
Richard Kriedemann offers an impressive breadth of expertise in the M&A space, including public takeovers, joint ventures, share acquisitions and disposals, and is also notable for his experience assisting on matters relating to Papua New Guinea from his base in Sydney.
He is highly commercial, with great strategic thinking.