Tom has over 13 years of experience across public M&A, domestic and cross-border private M&A transactions and joint ventures, restructures and equity capital raisings. Tom has advised prominent listed and unlisted corporate groups and private equity investors based in Australia, Asia, USA and Europe across various sectors including financial services, digital infrastructure, renewable energy, technology, healthcare and industrials.
His working languages are English and Mandarin Chinese, and he worked in mainland China for 5 years on a range of cross-border M&A transactions.
Tom’s work highlights include:
- Australian M&A: Palisade-managed Intera Renewables on the acquisition of Summerfield BESS; Commonwealth Bank / x15 on strategic fintech investments; Novomatic AG on its scheme/takeover bids to acquire Ainsworth Game Technology; Symbio on its cash/scrip acquisition by Aussie Broadband by scheme of arrangement; Templeton Global Growth Fund on its scrip acquisition by WAM Global and concurrent buyback; Shanghai Pharma/Primavera on the acquisition of ASX-listed Vitaco by scheme of arrangement; VisionStone Investment and Zhonglu Advantage's strategic investment in Factor Bikes; various corporate and private capital clients on competitive sale processes, bilateral private M&A transactions and joint ventures (including large scale data centre and renewable energy transactions)
- Distressed M&A: Deloitte on its administrations of Clough Group (sale of Australian EPC business to Webuild) and Probuild (sale of Victorian construction business); ESR/LOGOS on its acquisition and controlled restructuring of Qenos Group
- Capital raisings: multiple Steadfast capital raisings to fund acquisitions; C2 Capital’s 15% strategic investment in Bubs Australia
- Cross border transactions: Commonwealth Bank of Australia on multiple strategic China divestment transactions (A$3.6bn+ total proceeds); Brambles on the merger of its Chinese pallets business with Loscam; UPS on its strategic cross-border package delivery JV with SF Express (China’s largest delivery group); various international clients on M&A and corporate matters involving foreign investment in China
