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Johnson Winter Slattery

Private Equity

Asia-Pacific Guide 2026 : Australia


Johnson Winter Slattery

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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.

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Private Equity - Australia

Band 3

Band 3


What the Team is Known For

Johnson Winter Slattery presents a versatile, independent offering, sought out both by leading Australian corporates and by foreign-based multinationals engaged in Australian transactions. It is notably active on public M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and is especially prized for its commitment to hands-on partner involvement, high standards of service and long-term client relationships. The firm is highly active in the energy and resources, financial services, healthcare and infrastructure spheres, and is also a regular recipient of inbound referrals.

Work Highlights

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  • Johnson Winter Slattery advised BCI Minerals and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Iron Valley, on all aspects of the sale of its Iron Valley iron ore assets to Polaris Metal.

  • Johnson Winter Slattery advised Archer Capital and the other shareholders of Credit Data Solutions in relation to the sale of the illion Group to Experian Australian Credit Services.

Strengths

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  • They were excellent. The team was very calm, collected and identified issues. They were very practical and very good.

    Private Equity respondentAsia-Pacific
  • The Johnson Winter Slattery team works really well together. The lawyers were across everything, so there was no need for us to go around picking up missed points.

    Private Equity respondentAsia-Pacific
  • In addition to having a high degree of technical skill in corporate/M&A, JWS’s service exhibits a client-first service-oriented approach.

    Private Equity respondentAsia-Pacific

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 2James Rozsa
    Band 2James Rozsa

    James Rozsa

    James Rozsa is based in the Sydney office and assists both private equity sponsors and major corporate clients with domestic and cross-border M&A deals, investments and equity markets transactions.
  • Band 5Damian Reichel
    Band 5Damian Reichel

    Damian Reichel

    Damian Reichel offers over 20 years' experience in the space and is particularly practised in the handling of public company transactions and of restructuring and corporate governance issues. He is based in Sydney.

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