Brian Murphy is a Partner in the Sydney office of King & Wood Mallesons. With over 33 years’ experience, Brian is a trusted adviser and M&A market leader in the listed and wholesale property and natural resources industries and highly experienced in infrastructure and financial sector M&A.
Brian specialises in investment fund and company mergers, acquisitions and fund raisings. Brian also advises numerous listed and unlisted companies and investment funds on governance matters.
Coupled with his solutions-focused client service, Brian has an agile and innovative approach, including having advised on a number of “firsts” throughout his career.
Brian's work highlights include:
- Investment funds: Establishment of Stockland’s first capital partnership investment fund; Establishment of Scentre’s first co-managed investment funds; Establishment of LOGOS investment fund to acquire properties in Qenos; Establishment of $4 billion AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund; Numerous fund investments for PSPIB including funds managed by Macquarie and Charter Hall
- Private M&A: Numerous agricultural acquisitions for Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada (PSPIB) through investment funds, creating a diverse multi-billion dollar agriculture investment platform; Infrastructure and property consortium bids, acquisitions and investments for PSPIB; Stockland acquisition of Halcyon Land lease platform; Acquisition of Gunns Tasmanian Forestry assets by New Forests investment fund
- Takeovers: Consortium bid for Spark Infrastructure, PSPIB acquisition of Webster Ltd, Frasers bid for Australand, 360 Capital bid for Australian Industrial REIT, Peet bid for CIC Australia, Charter Hall consortium acquisition of Charter Hall Office REIT, Goodman acquisition of ING Industrial Fund, Stockland bid for GPT, Multiplex bid for Ronin
- IPOs and stapling transactions: Charter Hall Long WALE REIT, Australian Industrial REIT, Stapling of AWPF6 in Industria REIT IPO, Westfield Retail Trust, Westfield stapling, Australand stapling, Macquarie Atlas Road, Goodman stapling, Multiplex Group, Record Realty, Mirvac stapling, Gresham Technology Investment Fund, BT Sydney Development Trust, Hills Motorway, Macquarie Bank
- Other M&A: AMP’s proposals for its AMP Capital property and infrastructure business including management rights transactions; Macquarie Bank Non-Operating Holding Company restructure into Macquarie Group, DUET internalisation of Macquarie/ AMP management rights, Westfield and Westfield Retail Trust merger and demerger of Scentre Group and Westfield Corporation, Westfield Retail Trust demerger by Westfield, ING Office Fund management internalisation, Macquarie Atlas Roads demerger by Macquarie Infrastructure Group, Merger of Wesfarmers and Franked Income Fund
- Capital raisings: Placements, rights issues and hybrid equity issues by Goodman, Westfield, Stockland, Australand, Peet, Charter Hall Long WALE REIT and Charter Hall Retail REIT and Macquarie Group
- “Firsts”: First stapled group IPO (Hills Motorway 1994), first stapling by scheme of arrangement (Mirvac 1999), first stapled group simplification (Mirvac 2001), first ASX listed CDO (Nexus Bonds 2002), first ASX listed trust buy-back (Gresham Technology Investment Fund 2004), first “low doc” rights issue (Australand 2008), the first stapled group capital rebalancing (Australand 2011) and first contingent value right used in public M&A (Charter Hall Office REIT 2012)
