Will Heath is a corporate lawyer focusing on public and private M&A, capital raisings and corporate advisory work. He has over two decades of experience advising global organisations and leading ASX-listed companies on complex transactions.
Will works with clients in a wide range of sectors including infrastructure, resources, technology and financial services. He has substantial cross-border M&A experience and lived and worked in Tokyo for four years.
Will also advises companies and their Boards on governance issues including directors' duties, shareholder activism and continuous disclosure. Will teaches two corporate law programs at the Melbourne Law School (where he was a Senior Fellow) and the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He also holds two postgraduate law degrees from the University of Oxford, where he was a Menzies Memorial Scholar in Law.
Will’s work has been recognised by clients in Chambers, Legal500, IFLR1000, Best Lawyers and Doyle’s Leading M&A Lawyers. In 2023, Best Lawyers awarded Will "Lawyer of the Year" in Mergers & Acquisitions, Melbourne.
Recent matters include advising:
- Dyno Nobel on the separation of its Fertilisers business
- REA Group in relation to its cross-border proposal for LSE-listed Rightmove Plc
- Alumina on its USD$3 billion acquisition by Alcoa Corporation by scheme of arrangement
- Newmont on its successful AUD$26 billion acquisition of Newcrest by scheme of arrangement and secondary listing on ASX
- Altium on its response to a $5 billion proposal by Autodesk and its $9 billion acquisition by Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Costa on its USD$2.5 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Paine Schwartz Partners
- AMP on its response to an approach by Ares Management and the subsequent portfolio review
- NAB on its sale of the MLC wealth business and its cross-border demerger and IPO of CYBG Plc
- APA on its response to CKI’s takeover offer
- Various clients on equity capital markets transactions in excess of AUD$20 billion
