Sydney, 8 August 2011: Clayton Utz congratulates Collins Foods in connection with its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange on 5 August.
Clayton Utz Private Equity partners Philip Kapp and David Stammers have acted as a trusted advisers to Collins Foods since the formerly privately owned company's acquisition by Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) in 2005.
The capital markets work for the IPO was led by Clayton Utz's National Equity Capital Markets practice head, Stuart Byrne. Financing work was performed by Banking partner Alexander Schlosser.
Collins Foods is Australia's largest KFC franchisee and Sizzler operator. Its IPO is Australia's largest IPO year to date.