Tom is a Senior Associate with over 10 years of experience across public M&A, domestic and cross-border private M&A transactions and joint ventures, restructures and equity capital raisings. Tom has advised prominent listed and unlisted corporate groups and private equity investors based in Australia, Asia, USA and Europe across various sectors including financial services, renewable energy, technology, digital infrastructure and industrials. He has worked in our Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing and Shenzhen offices, and his working languages are English and Mandarin Chinese.
Tom’s work highlights include:
- Australian M&A: Symbio on its cash/scrip acquisition by Aussie Broadband by scheme of arrangement; Templeton Global Growth Fund on its scrip acquisition by WAM Global and concurrent buyback; Shanghai Pharma/Primavera on the acquisition of ASX-listed Vitaco by scheme of arrangement; various corporate and private capital clients on competitive sale processes and bilateral private M&A transactions
- Distressed M&A: Deloitte on its administrations of Clough Group (sale of Australian EPC business to Webuild) and Probuild (sale of Victorian construction business); strategic buyer on its acquisition and controlled restructuring of Qenos Group
- Capital raisings: multiple Steadfast capital raisings to fund acquisitions; C2 Capital’s 15% strategic investment in Bubs Australia
- Cross border transactions: Commonwealth Bank of Australian on multiple strategic China divestment transactions; Brambles on the merger of its Chinese pallets business with Loscam; UPS on its strategic cross-border package delivery JV with SF Express (China’s largest delivery group); various international clients on M&A and corporate matters involving foreign investment in China
