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What the Team is Known For

The standout Herbert Smith Freehills practice is renowned for its consistent involvement in many of the most prominent and challenging transactions. The team frequently acts on both major public M&A and private equity transactions and is able to apply debt and capital markets expertise when required. It is noted for its immense depth of resources and longstanding relationships with a variety of top-flight multinationals, and is especially valued for its ability to provide substantial, multi-jurisdictional support at both the regional and global levels. The firm is trusted to coordinate multibillion-dollar divestment and demerger deals for a varied roster of financial, mining, IT and healthcare services clients.

Work Highlights

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  • Herbert Smith Freehills advised CSR on all aspects of its proposed AUD4.3 billion acquisition by Compagnie de Saint-Gobain by way of a scheme of arrangement.

  • Herbert Smith Freehills advised Origin on its proposed AUD18.7 billion acquisition by MidOcean Energy and Brookfield Asset Management consortium by way of a scheme of arrangement.

Strengths

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They are highly experienced, very pragmatic and extremely thorough. The team has worked on many of the leading transactions in the industry and has a track record of effective advice and executions.

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They are very pragmatic and commercial, well-balanced in their escalation of legal issues and very timely in their responses.

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They are very impressive, easily able to riffle through a vast array of matters, ascertain what is important and articulate the issue. 

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Notable Practitioners

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Baden Furphy
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Baden Furphy handles public M&A and private equity mandates with equal readiness from the Melbourne office and is frequently engaged to assist clients on matters relating to demergers, buy-backs and hostile takeovers.
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Philippa Stone
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Philippa Stone commands the highest respect among both clients and other sources in this space, not only for handling public M&A deals as effectively as the equity capital markets transactions for which she is especially renowned, but also in the spheres of negotiated deals, privatisations and corporate reconstructions.

Philippa is a bit of a titan in the Australian legal market. She has a lot of experience, is very hardworking and very responsive.

She is extremely well-connected, one of the leading practitioners in the market in Australia and someone we look to for strategic advice on very large files.

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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage
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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage is the firm's chair and senior partner, and she offers an impressive track record in the representation of prominent domestic and multinational clients in some of Australia's highest-profile mergers and takeovers.

I don't know how she has the time, but she's always on the tools and across everything all the time. She's incredibly commercial, solutions-oriented to our risk appetite and gives pragmatic advice. 

She is one of the top in the market. She is knowledgeable and accessible; nothing is ever too much trouble. She is a really lovely person. 

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Rodd Levy
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Rodd Levy advises on substantial M&A transactions, takeover defence and corporate governance issues from the Herbert Smith Freehills Melbourne office.
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Andrew Rich
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Andrew Rich handles both public and private M&A mandates in, among other spheres, the consumer products, energy and TMT sectors, and offers noted experience of cross-border transactions. He is based in Herbert Smith Freehills' Sydney office.
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Kam Jamshidi
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Kam Jamshidi is skilled in private equity transactions and public M&A, including schemes of arrangement. He is based in Herbert Smith Freehills' Melbourne location.

He is consistently across the details, works extremely hard and is very user-friendly, always putting our needs first.

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Damien Roberts
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Damien Roberts is based in Sydney and has extensive experience of having worked in Japan for many years, most notably with regard to assisting clients on M&A matters in the infrastructure, energy and resources sectors.
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Corporate/M&A
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Baden Furphy
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Philippa Stone
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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage
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Rodd Levy
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Andrew Rich
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Kam Jamshidi
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Damien Roberts
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Foreign expert for Japan
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