Kylie de Oliveira

Clayton Utz
Partner Sydney
Overview

Corporate/M&A specialist with more than 20 years' experience advising sponsors, managers and investors in Australia and abroad on inbound investment and other transactions across a range of sectors including real estate, infrastructure, funds management and financial services. Trusted advisor to clients on structuring, acquisition and divestment transactions, joint ventures and co-investments, commercial and advisory matters.

Notable Work
  • Blackstone: advised on its $3.8bn sale of the 'Milestone' portfolio comprising 45 industrial and logistics facilities located across Australia to ESR/GIC, its $2bn acquisition of industrial and logistics assets portfolios from Goodman and others, its $3.1bn proposed acquisition by merger scheme of Investa Office Fund and its sale with Brookfield of 50% of the Southern Cross Towers office complex to Charter Hall;
  • China Investment Corporation: advised on its $2.5bn acquisition of the Investa Property Trust and sale of its interests in the Grosvenor Place office complex to Blackstone;
  • AW Holdings: advised on its sale of One Circular Quay, the site of the $3bn luxury residential and hotel complex under development by Lendlease;
  • Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing: advised on development joint ventures, fund throughs and co-investments in industrial, logistics and office assets with Lendlease, Mirvac, Centurion, Charter Hall among others; and
  • Invesco: advised on its investment in Brookfield's $800m Chevron HQ development, its development of the Royal Parade student accommodation facility and funding of the 90-storey Skytower residential development;
  • Hotel investors: advised on the $442m acquisition of the Sydney Hilton, the proposed acquisition of the Sydney Westin and the $150m sale of NEXT Brisbane;
  • Convera: advised on the Australian aspects of the US$910m acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions by The Baupost Group LLC and Goldfinch Partners LLC;
  • Macquarie Group: advised on the $8.2bn acquisition of the Esanda dealer finance portfolio from ANZ;
  • Lloyds Banking Group: advised on the $8.4bn sale of its Australian corporate loan portfolio and asset financing business to Westpac*at a previous firm; and
  • HBOS: advised on its $2.5bn sale of BankWest and the St Andrew's wealth and insurance business to Commonwealth Bank.
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