Anthony Boogert

Anthony advises financial sponsors, corporates and investment banks on a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and secondary offerings, joint ventures, restructurings and other strategic initiatives. 

He has represented many of the leading financial sponsors in the Australian market, including Affinity Equity Partners, Ares, Brookfield, CPE Capital, CVC, EMR Capital, EQT, KKR and Quadrant Private Equity. He also regularly represents technology companies, from early-stage companies through to listed multi-nationals, on capital raisings, exits and other corporate transactions. 

Anthony is ranked by Chambers Global as a leading practitioner in both Private Equity and FinTech, and is recognised by clients for being “very, very commercial and knows the details” and “highly responsive…provides clear, articulate and sensible solutions to some difficult concepts”. He is also a member of International Bar Association’s Corporate and M&A Law Committee.

Relevant Experience 

Private Capital 

• Affinity Equity Partners: on the sale of TEG (Ticketek) to Silver Lake Partners and its acquisition of ScotPac 
• Aware Super: on the sale of ProTen to KKR
• Brookfield: on its acquisition of Healthscope 
• CPE Capital: on the acquisitions of Australian British Food, Rocla Industries, Civilmart and Adventure Online; the acquisition and ultimate sale of Gourmet Food Group to Mondelez, the sale of the Axieo 
• EQT: on its acquisition of Levande (Stockland Retirement Living) and the sale of Five Good Friends
• Findex: on the exit of KKR and significant minority investment by Mercury Capital
• Quadrant Private Equity: on the acquisitions of Carlyle Health, Junior Adventures Group, Fitzpatricks Private Wealth and the Fitness & Lifestyle Group; the acquisition and ultimate sale of Qscan Radiology to Infratil and Morrison

Mergers and Acquisitions 

• Block: on its acquisition of Afterpay 
• Brookfield: on its acquisition of Healthscope 
• Envato: on its sale to Shutterstock
• Task Group: on its sale to PAR Corp
• GTN: on the hostile takeover offer from Viburnum
• Fairfax Media: on its merger with Nine Entertainment 
• NAB: on the sale of MLC to Insignia
• Genea: on its takeover by Liverpool Partners
• Sprint Nextel: on its acquisition by SoftBank (named as the “Global M&A Deal of the Year: Grand Prize” by The American Lawyer) and its acquisition of Clearwire 

Equity Capital Markets 

• Carma: on its IPO and listing on ASX 
• 29Metals: on its IPO and listing on ASX 
• KKR: on the IPO and listing of Pepper Money on the ASX 
• Payright: on its IPO and listing on ASX 
• Weebit Nano: on various secondary capital raisings 
• Ramsay Holdings: on its sell-down of Ramsay Health Care 
• GTN: on its IPO and listing on ASX 
• Motorcycle Holdings: on its IPO and listing on ASX 
• Costa Group: on its IPO and listing on ASX 

Technology and Venture Capital 

• Block: on its acquisition of Afterpay 
• Indebted: on its Series C round led by AirTree Ventures
• Grow: on its Series B, Series C and Series D rounds 
• Data Zoo: on its Series A round led by Ellerston Capital
• Envato: on its sale to Shutterstock
• Task Group: on its sale to PAR Corp
• Silicon Quantum Computing: on its Series A round
• IAG Firemark Ventures: on various venture capital investments