Professional biography
Stephen Minns is a Partner in the Melbourne office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques and the co-head of the national Mergers and Acquisitions practice. He specialises in public company acquisitions and equity issues as well as general corporate work. He brings to his corporate and commercial practice experience in merchant banking in both Australia and overseas.
He advised Foodland on the demerger of its New Zealand business and acquisition under schemes of arrangement by Woolworths and Metcash, and he also advised BHP Billiton on the demerger of BHP Steel.
Stephen has a global reputation as a leading corporate, M&A and corporate governance lawyer. He was nominated (band 2) by Chambers Global Guide 2009 in corporate/M&A, as well as a leading individual in corporate/M&A by IFLR 1000 2009 and APL 500 2008/2009.
PLC Which Lawyer? 2009 also highly recommends Stephen and he has been listed in a range of other legal directories, including Best Lawyers Australia, Who's Who Legal, Euromoney Legal Media Group' 2009 edition to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers and Legal Guide to the World's Leading Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers.
Stephen recently co-authored an article published by the International Bar Association (IBA) corporate and M&A Law Committee 2009 - Australia: Squeeze-Out Guide.
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