Mallesons Stephen Jaques
MEDIA RELEASE

Mallesons advises on new single bookbuild capital raisings

28 October 2009

Mallesons has acted for Macquarie Capital Advisers and RBS Equity Capital Markets as underwriters for an entitlement offer to raise A$294 million for Macquarie Media Group (MMG).

The firm also advised Macquarie Capital Group in relation to other initiatives announced today, being the internalisation and corporatisation of MMG, which are subject to future securityholder approval.

These roles have given Mallesons the opportunity to act on the second single bookbuild Accelerated Renounceable Entitlement Offer, the firm having acted for the CSR $375 million Simultaneous Accelerated Renounceable Entitlement Offer (SAREO) announced two days ago.

Lead partners on the MMG capital raising were David Friedlander and Shannon Finch, assisted by Senior Associate Joe Muraca and Solicitor Avi Naidu.

“The Mallesons team was delighted to have the opportunity to work with three major underwriter clients this week on the first two single bookbuild offers in the market,” Mr Friedlander said.

Jason Watts led the Mallesons team acting for CSR on its SAREO and demerger announced on Monday.

Partners Susan Hilliard and Greg Golding led the Mallesons team advising Macquarie Capital Group on the internalisation, assisted by Senior Associate Jennifer Cho and Solicitor Mark Bryant.

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Aleks Czerwinski, Communications Consultant - +612 9296 3703

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