Corporate Advisory

Expertise

Jonathan's expertise includes:

• corporate advisory;
• general commercial and commercial dispute resolution;
• corporate governance and insolvency;
• shareholder and unitholder agreements;
• incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures;
• partnerships and incorporated associations;
• capital raising;
• mergers and acquisitions;
• disposal of companies through asset sales and share sales;
• corporate due diligence;
• non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements; and
• hospitality law including liquor licence and gaming applications, and alterations.

Experience

Recent transactions of note include:

• assisting a large multi-national to establish a significant hotel and gaming portfolio in Australia;
• acting for a number of large horticultural and beef companies in negotiating supply agreements with Coles, Woolworths and US and Chinese buyers;
• assisting a large privately owned Queensland horticultural company on the acquisition of assets totaling over $100 million;
• representing MSF Sugar on its $70m joint venture with Bundaberg Sugar;
• advising an ASX listed sugar producer on the sale of excess renewable power into the National Grid;
• representing Arrow Energy on the sale of $600m of CSG tenements to Shell and for minority interest acquirers in each of the four QLD CSG projects;
• advising on the sale of Heron Island Resort and negotiated a management agreement for the resort following a change of ownership;
• negotiating catering service contracts for major stadiums and resorts including the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and Melbourne Park;
• advising on the development of greenfield wind farm and solar energy projects in QLD, NSW and WA including the purchase of a wind farm for over $200m; and
• representing the purchaser of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal for $350m and the development of the $4.3b Wiggins Island Coal Terminal;
• advising on the management of a $50m mine expansion in northern QLD;
• advising on the purchase of orchards in WA and QLD valued at more than $300m;
• advising RACQ on the purchase of Suncorp’s 50% interest in RACQ Insurance;
• negotiating more than $5b in supply and service agreements to the resources industry;
• representing the purchaser of a $1b gas pipeline network in WA; and
• advising on the acquisition of Darwin Casino from SKYCITY for $188 million.