Scott specialises in corporate and securities law, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions (public & private) and equity capital markets.
Scott also regularly acts on venture capital, foreign investment, corporate governance and other corporate law matters. His clients include multinational, ASX-listed and unlisted companies and sponsors across a wide range of industries, but particularly in the technology (digital & life sciences), consumer and infrastructure sectors.
Work highlights
Macquarie Asset Management
Acquisition of AMP’s global equities & fixed income (GEFI) business, representing c. $60 billion in assets under management.
Perenti Limited (ASX:PRN):
$410m acquisition of DDH1 Limited (ASX:DDH) by scheme of arrangement, including designing several novel consideration mechanisms.
Employment Hero
Series D, E and E Extension capital raisings, its acquisition of KeyPay, a cloud-based workforce management and payroll platform, and other strategic initiatives.
Gazal Corporation (ASX:GZL)
A$300 million scheme of arrangement with PVH Corp., including its novel earnout & retention structure involving a 40% shareholder.
Universities Superannuation Scheme (UK)
On its unsolicited proposal to acquire an increased portion of the NSW Government’s revenue stream from the Sydney Airport rail line.
IPOs & ASX secondary raisings
Numerous initial public offerings and secondary capital raisings via the ASX, including for CurveBeam AI Limited, EBR Systems Inc., Laybuy Group Holdings Ltd, Imricor Medical Systems, Inc., ImpediMed Limited, Visioneering Technologies, Inc. and AirXpanders, Inc.