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  • John Sullivan

    Partner
    Sydney
    T: +61 2 9296 2254
    M: +61 418 636 629
 

 Professional Biography

 

  • John Sullivan is an M&A partner with an Australian and Asian regional practice. John specialises in investment funds, capital raising and securities, and mergers and acquisitions.

    John is one of the leaders of our regional funds practice and our India and Singapore practices. John practises both English and Australian law, has worked in London and Australia and is a regular visitor to our Asian offices.

    John has particular experience with:

    • Australian and Asian funds including infrastructure, real estate and private equity funds;
    • offshore funds and cross-border transactions in Asia (eg, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, PRC and Japan);
    • foreign investment into Australia (including using MIT structures);
    • Australian and Singapore hybrid securities/convertible bond offerings;
    • REITs, listed funds, stapled securities and other innovative financial products; and
    • fund-related M&A including acquisitions, mergers, restructures and joint ventures.

    John is recognized as one of the leading funds lawyers in the Asian region, having been closely involved in market developments since the early 2000s. He has acted as fund counsel on some of the largest fund raisings in the Asian region, including ground breaking Indian funds, and numerous inbound Australian real estate / infrastructure acquisitions.

    John is ranked as a leading lawyer in the PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook 2010, the PLC Cross-border Investment Funds Handbook 2010 and the Chambers Australia 2012 guide. He is also listed as a key individual in the Chambers Asia 2012 and Chambers Global 2010 Guides. John was recently named as one of Australasian Legal Business' Hot 40 Lawyers for his cross border Asian funds work.
 

 Experience

 
  • 1989: Bachelor of Economics, Sydney University
  • 1992: Bachelor of Laws, Sydney University (Honours)
  • 1994 - 1997: Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
  • 1996: Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment (SIA).
  • 1997 - 1999: Linklaters (London)
  • 2000 - 2002: Senior Associate, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney
  • 2003 - Feb 2012: Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney.
  • March 2012 - Present: Partner, King & Wood Mallesons, Sydney
  • John is a member of the Regulatory Liaison Committee of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association.
  • John has written and presented widely on capital raising and funds to clients, industry conferences and regulators in Australia and Asia. Recent examples include the ALB Private Equity Masterclass, ALB M&A Masterclass, Asia Pacific Real Estate Forum, International Bar Association Conference, the Asian Capital Markets Forum and the Hybrids Forum.
  • John has had articles published in the International Financial Law Review, Insto magazine, various Butterworths publications and the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association Journal.
 

 Recent Matters

 
  • Foreign investment into Australia
  • Ascendas and Accor - acquisition of Mirvac hotels business
  • Goldman Sachs Asia - investment in consortium to acquire Redcape Property Fund
  • China Investment Corporation - investment in consortium to acquire Connect East toll road
  • LaSalle Investment Management - acquisition of Trinity Funds Management
  • Securus Fund - acquisitions of Gore Hill Data Centre and iseek Data Centre and Gore Hill Data Centre (Australia's first Shariah compliant fund investments)
  • Pramerica Real Estate Investors - fund acquisition of Melbourne office property
  • CLSA Capital Partners - Fudo Capital - fund acquisition of Sydney and Melbourne office properties
  • PSP - investment in consortium to acquire DP World's Australian ports
  • India funds/China funds
  • Macquarie/China Everbright China infrastructure funds
  • US$1.25 billion Macquarie/State Bank of India Infrastructure Funds (an Indian Business Law Journal Deal of the Year 2010)
  • US$100 million AMP Capital Asian Giants Infrastructure Fund - India and China
  • US$100 million Infrastructure Fund of India for AMP Capital
  • Lion Indian Real Estate Fund
  • Other Asian Regional Funds/M&A
  • Invista Real Estate US$85 million BOSS Partnership 1 LP (Singapore and Hong Kong properties)
  • Macquarie Bank $200 million disposal of interests in Hong Kong platform of Macquarie Goodman Asia, having acted for Macquarie on acquisition of portfolio
  • Australand Pan-Asian industrial and logistics joint venture with CapitaLand
  • Macquarie acquisitions and disposals of Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and China properties
  • Macquarie investment in HK$4.8 billion Macquarie Goodman Hong Kong Logistics Fund
  • Macquarie investment in S$900 million Singapore listed Prime REIT and management joint venture with Pacific Star
  • Convertible Bonds
  • FKP Property $100 million Singapore convertible bonds
  • Western Areas $125 million and $225 million Singapore convertible bonds
  • Commonwealth Property Office Fund $200 million Singapore convertible bonds
  • Macquarie Communications $625 million and US$200 million Singapore convertible bonds
  • CFS Retail Property $600 million Singapore convertible bonds
  • Exchangeable bonds for ING Industrial Fund ($450 million) and Centro Properties (US $500 million)
  • Hybrid securities
  • $700 million offer of funds management hybrid securities by CBA (for the investors)
  • $700 million offer of Westpac Trust Preferred Securities
  • $550 million offer by IAG of Reset Exchange Securities
  • $415 million and $155 million offers of POWERS
  • $1.15 billion offer of AMP Reset Preferred Securities
  • IPOs and equity capital raisings
  • Rights offers for Spark Infrastructure, Leighton, DUET and others
  • Establishment of Airline Partners Australia Fund, and $680 million rights offer by Allco Equity Partners, for proposed $11 billion Qantas Airways acquisition
  • $640 million IPO of Challenger Diversified Property Group
  • $1.6 billion IPO of Spark Infrastructure
  • $258 million IPO of DUET (Australasian Legal Business Equity Deal of the Year 2004)
  • M&A/Restructures/Internalisations
  • Spark Infrastructure restructure (Australia's first trust 'top hat' scheme) and internalisation
  • Macquarie Leisure Trust internalisation
  • DUET restructuring of United Energy, Multinet and AlintaGas (combined enterprise value $4 billion) (AsiaMoney and Australasian Legal Business Deal of the Year 2003)
  • $700 million acquisition of Darling Park Trust by AMP Office Trust/General Property Trust (trust merger)
  • Homemaker Property Trust internalisation
  • Westpac Property Trust/Investa internalisation
  • Joint Ventures
  • China joint ventures between Macquarie and China Everbright
  • India joint ventures between Macquarie Capital, State Bank of India and IFC
  • Asian joint ventures between Macquarie Bank and Goodman
  • Stockland joint venture for Moorebank defence site with Qube Logistics and QR
  • DUET management joint venture between AMP and Macquarie
 

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