Recent Matters
- APA: on its response to the CKI consortium’s $13 billion takeover proposal and its $500 million entitlement offer
- Accenture and Avanade: advising on various Australian M&A mandates including Accenture’s acquisition of Reactive Media (2015), Second Road (2016) and The Monkeys (2017), and Avanade’s acquisition of Loud & Clear (2018)
- By-Health: advising Shenzhen-listed By-Health Co., Ltd. on its acquisition of Life-Space Group, for $690 million
- Transurban: raising approximately $6 billion in equity capital via entitlement offers and placements to fund the acquisitions of Queensland Motorways, AirportlinkM7 and the West Gate Tunnel Project
- ENGIE and Mitsui: on the sale of Loy Yang B for $1.1 billion
- NAB: on its demerger of CYBG Plc and concurrent listings on LSE and ASX and its $5.5 billion entitlement offer, the largest secondary capital raising in Australia
- AusNet Services: on its delisting from SGX-ST and its $5 billion corporate restructure by way of schemes of arrangement
- Incitec Pivot Limited: on various matters including its $3.3 billion acquisition of Dyno Nobel Limited by way of schemes of arrangement and its $1.1 billion capital raising
- Various Fortune 500 companies on Australian strategic investments including Caterpillar on its investment in Fastbrick, Mead Johnson on its acquisition of Bega’s infant formula assets and Celgene Corporation on its investment in Mesoblast
Professional Memberships
- University of Melbourne: Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, teaching corporate law
- Monash University: external lecturer in undergraduate corporate governance course
- Japan Australia Business Co-Operation Committee
- Australia China Business Council
Will has authored a number of articles on corporate law and directors’ duties. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he completed two masters’ degrees in law, as a Menzies Memorial Scholar.