Noble Group: lead adviser for SGX listed Noble Group on all its recent Australian transactions, including:
advising on the proposed A$8 billion merger between Gloucester Coal and Yancoal Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Company to create Australia's largest listed pure coal company. This will be the second largest Chinese acquisition in Australia and the third largest China outbound mining transaction on record;
successfully representing Noble in its hostile takeover bid for Gloucester Coal Limited, valued at A$584 million. This involved ground-breaking proceedings before the Takeovers Panel and was named as FinanceAsia's "Best Hong Kong Deal" in 2009;
advising on the mop up takeover bid valued at $250 million and alternate related party vend-in and takeovers law vote in respect of Middlemount assets to ASX listed Gloucester Coal. This transaction was valued at $750 million and also involved a $455 million capital raising;
advising on the related party vend-in of Donaldson and Monash assets to ASX listed Gloucester Coal, valued at $800 million, which also involved a $230 million capital raising;
advising on asset vend-in and takeover transactions that would have created Australia's largest independent coal miner in ASX listed Macarthur Coal with a market capitalisation of approximately $3.5 billion, including successful Takeovers Panel proceedings against Peabody; and
advising on significant equity investments in ASX listed Aston Resources, Xanadu Mining, Aspire Mining and others.
Alinta Energy syndicate banks: lead adviser to BNP Paribas, UniCredit and others on the equity side of their $2.1 billion debt for equity swap in ASX listed Alinta Energy, including equity capital markets and public company mergers and acquisitions aspects. Awarded ALB Magazine Insolvency/Restructuring Deal of the Year 2011.
Chinese SOE: advised a cornerstone off-taker on arrangements with Clive Palmer's China First 1.4 billion tonne thermal coal project.
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC): advised on its successful takeover bid for Energy Metals Limited, including ASX listing Rules compliance issues for CGNPC as the controlling shareholder of this company.
TCI Hedge Fund: lead adviser to TCI on its acquisition of approximately 30% stake in ASX listed Infigen Energy, including ASX Listing Rule and Corporations Act issues.
Suncorp: acted for Macquarie, UBS, Citi and JP Morgan as lead managers of the institutional book-build and public offer for Suncorp's 2008 convertible preference share offer, raising $735 million.
