Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket
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Mid-market deals<br />
Top 10 Australian Announced Mid Market Deals for YTD 2009<br />
($10m to $250m)<br />
Announced Status Target company Sector Target/seller<br />
financial<br />
adviser<br />
13-Feb-09 P HeartWare<br />
International Inc<br />
Pharma,<br />
Medical &<br />
Biotech<br />
2-Mar-09 P KAZ Group Limited TMT Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Credit<br />
Suisse”<br />
23-Mar-09 C Australian Discount<br />
Retail Pty Ltd<br />
16-Feb-09 P Dunkeld Pastoral Co<br />
(2 Northern Territory<br />
cattle stations)<br />
27-Feb-09 P Arana Therapeutics<br />
Limited<br />
16-Feb-09 P Australian Agricultural<br />
Company (19.9%<br />
stake)<br />
7-Jan-09 C Centric Wealth<br />
Advisers Ltd (75%<br />
stake)<br />
16-Jan-09 P Southern Star Group<br />
Limited<br />
5-Mar-09 C Hyatt Regency<br />
Adelaide<br />
23-Feb-09 P Australian Agricultural<br />
Company (14.99%<br />
stake)<br />
Target/seller<br />
legal adviser<br />
JPMorgan “Blake<br />
Dawson; Hogan<br />
& Hartson;<br />
Shearman &<br />
Sterling<br />
Advising seller:<br />
Proskauer Rose<br />
Advising<br />
JPMorgan:<br />
Cravath Swaine<br />
& Moore”<br />
“Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Freehills”<br />
Bidder company Bidder<br />
financial<br />
adviser<br />
Thoratec<br />
Corporation<br />
Fujitsu Limited<br />
Consumer Clayton Utz Retail<br />
Adventures Pty<br />
Ltd<br />
Agriculture Grant Samuel Norton Gledhill Australian<br />
Agricultural<br />
Company<br />
Pharma,<br />
Medical &<br />
Biotech<br />
Royal Bank<br />
of Scotland<br />
Group<br />
Agriculture Citigroup;<br />
Royal Bank<br />
of Scotland<br />
Group<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Caliburn<br />
Partnership<br />
Business<br />
Services<br />
Goldman<br />
Sachs<br />
TMT Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Deloitte”<br />
Bank of<br />
America<br />
Merrill<br />
Lynch<br />
Macquarie<br />
Group<br />
Middletons Cephalon Inc Deutsche<br />
Bank;<br />
Ferghana<br />
Partners<br />
Advising seller:<br />
Deacons<br />
Baker &<br />
McKenzie<br />
Advising seller:<br />
Freehills;<br />
Olswang<br />
Allen Myers Grant<br />
Samuel<br />
CHAMP Private<br />
Equity<br />
Endemol NV;<br />
Lachlan Murdoch<br />
(private investor)<br />
Leisure TCC Land<br />
International<br />
Co Ltd<br />
Agriculture Citigroup;<br />
Royal Bank<br />
of Scotland<br />
Group<br />
Advising<br />
seller:<br />
Caliburn<br />
Partnership<br />
Advising seller:<br />
Deacons;<br />
Mallesons<br />
Stephen<br />
Jaques;<br />
McCullough<br />
Robertson<br />
Bidder legal<br />
adviser<br />
Corrs<br />
Chambers<br />
Westgarth;<br />
Latham &<br />
Watkins<br />
Australia<br />
Seller<br />
company<br />
Apple Tree<br />
Partners<br />
DLA Piper Telstra<br />
Corporation<br />
Limited<br />
KPMG Lane Neave;<br />
Watson<br />
Mangioni<br />
McCullough<br />
Robertson<br />
Johnson<br />
Winter &<br />
Slattery<br />
Norton<br />
Gledhill<br />
Mallesons<br />
Stephen<br />
Jaques<br />
Internal Allens Arthur<br />
Robinson;<br />
Slaughter<br />
and May<br />
Baker &<br />
McKenzie<br />
Catalyst<br />
Investment<br />
Managers<br />
Pty Ltd; and<br />
CHAMP<br />
Private<br />
Equity<br />
Dunkeld<br />
Pastoral Co<br />
Pty Ltd<br />
Futuris<br />
Corporation<br />
Limited<br />
Fairfax<br />
Media<br />
Limited<br />
Grand Hotel<br />
Group<br />
IFFCO Group Futuris<br />
Corporation<br />
Limited<br />
C = Completed; P = Pending; L = Lapsed Source: mergermarket<br />
Deal<br />
value<br />
($m)<br />
248<br />
126<br />
71<br />
68<br />
58<br />
58<br />
57<br />
50<br />
48<br />
43<br />
<strong>Monthly</strong> M&A report – 85