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  • Tim Bednall

    Chairman, Australia
    Sydney
    T: +61 2 9296 2922
    M: +61 414 504 922
 

 Professional Biography

 

  • Tim Bednall is the Chairman of the firm's Board. He is also a Partner in our Sydney office where he practices in mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and competition law. Tim has advised a number of leading companies in major M&A transactions (including Alinta Energy, Challenger, ING Real Estate, BG Group, Xstrata, ASX, Stockland and Westpac) and a range of government, public and foreign clients in competition law and policy.

    Tim is recommended as a Leading Individual, Band 1, in the area of Corporate/M&A by Chambers Global Guide 2011 and as a "leading individual" by Asia Pacific Legal 500 2010/2011.

    Chambers Global Guide 2011 describes Tim as "unshakable under pressure, sought out for his counsel on complicated and time-sensitive transactions".
 

 Experience

 
  • 1984: Bachelor of Laws, (First class honours) University of Adelaide
  • 1983 - 1988: Solicitor at Finlaysons, Adelaide
  • 1988 - 1992: Partner, Finlaysons.
  • 1993 - 2004: Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson (Head of M&A 2002 - 2004)
  • 1997 - present: Adjunct Faculty Member, Law Faculty, University of Sydney
  • 2000 - 2001: Executive General Counsel, Southcorp Limited
  • 2004 - present: Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
  • 2010 - present: Chairman, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • Advised Alinta Energy Limited on its debt and equity restructuring 2010-2011
  • Advised ING Real Estate on the strategic review that resulted in the acquisition of ING Industrial Fund by Goodman Group and the sale of the management rights for ING Office Fund to Investa , 2010-2011
  • Advised Stockland on its successful takeover bid for Aevum, 2010
  • Advised Challenger on the sale of its mortgage business to NAB, 2009
  • Advised BG Group plc on its successful $5.6bn on-market bid for Queensland Gas Company, 2008
  • Advised BG Group plc on its bid for Origin Energy, 2008
  • Advised BG Group plc on the acquisition of interests in QGC and its coal seam gas tenements, 2008
  • Advised Xstrata on its bids for Jubilee Mines and Resource Pacific, 2008
  • Advised incoming CEO's of Westpac and St George on their CEO contracts, 2007
  • Advising Murrumbidgee Irrigation on its River Reach environmental water exchange project, 2007-2008
  • Advised Time Inc on the sale of WHO magazine and other Australian titles, 2007
  • Advised Stockland on its acquisition of Halladale plc, a UK listed company, 2007
  • Advised ASX on its merger with Sydney Futures Exchange by scheme of arrangement, 2006
  • Advised Stockland in relation to its bid for GPT 2004/05
  • Advised Xstrata in relation to its bid for WMC Resources, 2004/05
  • Advised Goodman Fielder in the contested Burns Philp takeover bid, 2003
  • Advised MIM on the 2003 scheme of arrangement with Xstrata
  • Advised Southcorp Limited in relation to all acquisitions and disposals from 1986 to 2003.
  • Advised the South Australian Government in relation to the privatisation of the South Australian Electricity Supply Industry 1998 - 2000
 

 Professional Memberships

 
  • Member of the Legal Committee of the Companies & Securities Advisory Committee from 1991 - 1994
  • Member of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia