Chambers Review
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Private Equity - Australia
What the Team is Known For
Maddocks stands out for its mid-market focus, ready access to partners and close attention to client service, and adept handling of technically complex matters. Its comprehensive sector coverage includes prominent activity in the agriculture, healthcare and retail sectors and is backed by the ability to advise on related commercial and taxation issues. The team offers niche expertise in the representation of the founders of companies looking to sell off all or a majority stake to private equity sponsors. It is active advising listed companies on multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and also represents notable private equity outfits in acquisitions and disposals.
Strengths
I found all team members to be professional and knowledgeable in all the tasks they were given. I could not fault their balanced and measured advice and they fully explained the risks at every step.
The Maddocks team is pragmatic, down-to-earth and easy to deal with.
Maddocks shares information within the team really well. The whole team has the context and background, and it doesn't have to be explained again.
Work Highlights
Maddocks advised Capitol Health on its merger with Integral Diagnostics to create an AUD1 billion medical diagnostic imaging company.
Maddocks acted as due diligence and transaction document advisers to SilverTree Equity Partners on the Australian aspects of a growth equity investment by FTV Capital into SilverTree’s portfolio company, Orbus Software.
Notable practitioners
Andrew McNee heads Maddock's private equity and venture capital team. He specialises in advising private equity firms on sales, acquisitions and investments across a range of industry sectors. He also assists clients with all aspects of their growth journey.
Andrew is a trusted adviser across a wide range of issues and transactions. In particular, he's highly skilled as a translator between non-legal PE clients and specialist teams.
He provided a great service, produced high quality advice and outputs and was highly responsive.