About
Provided by Johnson Winter Slattery
The Johnson Winter Slattery M&A practice is experienced in handling complex and high-value transactions. They are leaders in structuring innovative deals across a broad spectrum of matters and their specialist foreign investment team guides foreign investors through Australia’s complex regulations.
Public M&A
JWS provides expert legal counsel for friendly and hostile takeovers, court-approved schemes of arrangement, take-private transactions and consortium bids. They have strong relationships with key regulators and government agencies (including ASIC, ASX, FIRB, the ACCC and the Takeovers Panel) enabling them to navigate approval processes, competition clearances and ongoing compliance post-completion.
Private M&A
JWS represents private companies and institutional investors in a variety of high-stakes transactions including competitive sale processes, cross-border buyouts, joint ventures and technology-driven acquisitions. Their expertise covers innovative financing structures such as vendor financing, equity-based consideration and complex earn-out arrangements.
Private Equity
JWS advises on all aspects of private equity, including buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and divestments. Their team has extensive experience assisting firms to achieve their investment goals, with expertise in cross-border and leveraged finance experience in the UK and US.
