Sydney, 21 October 2011: Clayton Utz's national Capital Markets team continues to be at the forefront of significant market activity, having acted on four separate raisings that have launched this month.
The raisings on which Clayton Utz has had advisory roles include:
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Woolworths Limited's A$500 million offer of subordinated notes, announced to the market on 18 October (advising Woolworths as issuer; lead partner, national Equity Capital Markets practice head
Stuart Byrne, with partners
Louise McCoach and
Andrew Jinks and senior associates
Richard Knott,
Patricia Paton and
Alex Chernishev);
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Super Retail Group's A$334 million PAITREO entitlement offer announced on 17 October (acting for Macquarie and RBS as underwriters; lead partner
Stuart Byrne with partners
Geoff Hoffman and
Kirsten Fish and senior associates
Stratos Karousos and
Patricia Paton);
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Origin Energy Limited's US$500 million issue of 144A senior unsecured notes, priced on 14 October (advising Origin as issuer; lead partners Stuart Byrne and Louise McCoach with senior associate Alex Chernishev);
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Coffey International Limited's A$40 million entitlement, the retail component of which launched on 13 October (advising Coffey as issuer; lead partners Stuart Byrne and John Elliott, with senior associate Patricia Paton).
Stuart said the transactions reflected the diversity of work currently in the market, including local and foreign raisings, raisings to pay down debt, and raisings for acquisitions or capital management.
"While choppy markets certainly affect prices and put pressure on issuers to get the timing right – right down to the day even with a decent lead from the US the night before – there has been more activity this quarter than we were expecting," said Stuart.
Clayton Utz continues to grow its national capital markets team, with Estoban Gomez returning to the firm as a senior associate in Brisbane after two years practising in-house, and Elissa Tobin, a dual US and Australian law qualified senior associate, joining the Melbourne team led by partner Brendan Groves.