Byron is a corporate lawyer specialising in public M&A and corporate law.
He has extensive experience in contested takeovers, schemes of arrangement, ASX listings, foreign investment, joint ventures, share buy backs and Corporations Act compliance.
Byron’s recent transactions include acting for Potentia Capital in its successful contested takeover bid for Nitro Software Limited and for Accel/KKR in its successful contested takeover bid for intelliHR Limited.
Byron was a member of the Takeovers Panel for 12 years.
Byron is also a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal for the National Basketball League.
Acting in the high profile $600m contested takeover bid for Nitro Software (ASX:NTO) (2023).
Acting in the high profile bid for Tyro Payments Limited (ASX:TYR), a listed payments provider of merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS services (2023).
Acting for HumanForce, an Accel-KKR portfolio company, on its acquisition of IntelliHRLimited (ASX:IHR), an HR software platform, by way of scheme of arrangement and subsequently by way of a concurrent on-market contested takeover bid (2023).
Acting for Quantum Health Group Limited (ASX:QTM) in its merger with Paragon Care Limited (ASX:PGC) by way of a scheme of arrangement (2022).
Acting in relation to the successful takeover bid for Genea (2022).
Acting for Qantas Airways Limited (ASX:QAN) in its proposed merger with Alliance Services Limited (ASX:AQZ) by way of a scheme of arrangement (2022/23).
Advised PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund (ASX:PGF) on its contested proposed merger with PM Capital Asian Opportunities Fund (ASX:PAF) (2022).
Acting on its sale of assets and winding up.
Acting for Discovery Parks on its successful hostile takeover bid for Aspen Parks Property Fund.
Acting in its $8 billion joint venture with Hutchison Telecommunications Australia.
Acting in its $700 million takeover bid for OAMPS.
Recent cases have highlighted whether an ASX-listed entity must make a market disclosure to the ASX if it receives a confidential compulsory investigation notice under section 155 of the...
Usually who serves on the board of a listed company is a matter for the company itself and others, including the courts, only rarely intervene. That’s why the Takeovers Panel’s order requiring...
Bidders for Australian listed companies usually decide to make a formal takeover bid or alternatively propose a scheme of arrangement. But sometimes both paths are taken together and a scheme of...