Kate is a corporate lawyer specialising in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital.
She has extensive experience in ECM transactions including IPOs, rights issues, placements and share purchase plans. She also specialises in public and private M&A transactions such as takeover bids, schemes of arrangement and private treaty transactions.
Kate acts for ASX-listed companies in relation to their corporate transactions and has experience across a range of industries, with a focus on the health and technology sectors. She also acts for private equity and venture capital firms in relation to their Australian investments. She has previously worked for major Australian banks in their in-house legal teams.
Advised on its successful IPO and listing of its CDIs on the ASX in 2023.
Advised on its 2023 initial public offering and listing on the ASX.
Advised on its 2021 A$110 million IPO and ASX listing.
Advised on its institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer which raised A$244m in 2022.
Advised on its placement and share purchase plan which raised A$42.5 million and its institutional and retail entitlement offer to raise up to A$24.9 million.
Advised on its renounceable entitlement offer to raise up to A$15.5 million.
Advised on its non-renounceable entitlement offer and director placement in 2023.
Advised on its A$223 million investment in software start-up Octopus Deploy.
Advised on its A$14m investment in software start-up Devicie.
Advised on its investment in clean energy start-up, H2Lab.
Advised on its participation in the Series B and Series C Capital Raisings in Sunman Energy.
Advised Protecht in relation to the A$42 million investment by Arrowroot Capital.
Advised on its pre-IPO funding round and proposed IPO.
Advised on its 2022 pre-IPO funding rounds.
Strategic Investments and M&A Legal team. Advised on various potential disposals for the business bank, initial and follow on investments in various fintechs and assisted with the establishment of the Business Growth Fund, a joint initiative between the Federal Government, the four major banks, Macquarie and HSBC.
Advised on the $600m contested takeover bid for Nitro Software (ASX:NTO) (2023).
Advised on the bid for Tyro Payments Limited (ASX:TYR), a listed payments provider of merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS services (2023).
Acted for HumanForce, an Accel-KKR portfolio company, on its acquisition of IntelliHR Limited (ASX:IHR) by way of scheme of arrangement and subsequently by way of a concurrent on-market contested takeover bid (2023).
Acted for Qantas Airways Limited (ASX:QAN) in its proposed merger with Alliance Services Limited (ASX:AQZ) by way of a scheme of arrangement (2022/2023).
Acted for Fireblocks on the acquisition of BlockFold, a Melbourne-based blockchain start-up (2023).
Advised in relation to the establishment of a A$1 billion Australian industrial / logistics real estate platform.
Advised Curvebeam AI Limited on its merger with Curvebeam, LLC.
Advised on its acquisition of Marvel Internet Group Pty Ltd.
Advised on its acquisition of Hunter Valley Zoo.
Advised on its acquisition of Radio Rentals (South Australia).
Advised on the sale of Westpac’s vendor financing business to Cerberus Capital Management for A$600 million.
Many growth-stage companies – particularly in the technology and resources sectors – have contemplated changing their jurisdiction of incorporation from Australia to elsewhere.
The ASX is likely to introduce a series of new measures in 2024 aimed at streamlining aspects of the IPO listing process, as outlined in a recent adviser briefing.