6 July 2009
Mallesons has topped both the Mergermarket and Bloomberg mid-year M&A league tables by value, marking another successful quarter for the firm this year.
Bloomberg ranked Mallesons first by value for Australia and New Zealand, announcing 18 deals valued at US$8.8bn in the period Jan-June 2009. This top ranking represents a 34.2% market share, which is up 23.3% from the same time last year and has put Mallesons nearly 2% ahead of the firm’s nearest competitor.
Mallesons ranked first in Mergermarket’s Australiasian tables by value, announcing 20 deals worth US$17.8bn. Mallesons also came first in the Asia Pacific (ex. Japan) mid-market tables by volume.
These results follow Mallesons’ strong performance in Thomson Reuters’ Q1 league tables where the firm was ranked first for announced deals in both the Asia Pacific (ex. Japan) and Australia or NZ tables. In the same period, Mallesons was placed second in Asia for announced deals, positioning the firm well ahead of its Australian rivals and reaffirming its footprint in the Asia market.
Some of Mallesons’ recent key transactions include:
- Advisor to Australian beer and wine producer Lion Nathan on its $8.2bn acquisition by Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings.
- Advisor to Hunan Valin Iron on its A$1.2bn acquisition of a stake in Fortescue Metals.
- Advisor to Chinalco on its proposed investment in the Rio Tinto Group, the largest ever proposed outbound investment by a Chinese State Owned Enterprise.
- Advisor to Xstrata on it’s A$83bn bid for Anglo American.
- Advisor to CSR on the demerger of its sugar and renewable energy businesses.
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