Find Lawyers in Australia for Equity Capital Markets Law
Richard Beissel leads Cowell Clarke’s Financial Services and Equity Capital Markets teams, and is a Director of our Commercial Transactions and Corporate teams. Richard advises clients on matters including financial services licensing compliance, fundraising and finance, business structuring and joint ventures, securities regulation, operations and governance, and commercial restructuring. Richard has also acted for a variety of corporations, fund managers, trustees and high net wealth ...
James is the leader of our Public M&A and Equity Capital Markets practice. He is a current member of the Australian Takeovers Panel and has extensive experience working in top-tier corporate law firms in Australia and London. James’ experience includes leading the Kain teams advising: Kelsian Group (ASX:KLS) on its $698m (including up to $63m contingent consideration) acquisition of Transit Systems Group, together with a $154m capital raise by accelerated non-renounceable entitlemen...
Eugene has over 28 years’ experience practising corporate and commercial law. Eugene’s range of industry experience includes energy (particularly renewable energy) and resources projects, mining services, agribusiness, manufacturing, private equity, financial services, technology commercialisation, property development, and franchising. Eugene’s areas of expertise are: Corporate finance – equity capital markets, public market floats, securities and financial services l...
A well known corporate lawyer, Brett is well respected for his ability to drive matters to conclusion with powerful results and is lauded for his strong leadership skills. Brett has expertise in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and board advice. He has managed numerous capital raisings, including many ASX listings during his 36-year career. He is practical and passionate about offering quality expertise to clients, whose relationships he genuinely values. Both corporate and private ...
John has more than 25 years’ experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer. Having worked on deals in Australasia, Europe and the United States, John has extensive corporate and funds transactional experience. Primarily, his work has focused on property fund mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and secondary capital raisings, fund restructurings, and the launch of wholesale and retail syndicates and joint ventures. He has substantial experience in structuring, managing a...
Mr. Levine concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. He advises on a broad range of commercial matters, including equity capital markets, takeovers and schemes of arrangement, business sales and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and general corporate advisory work. Some of his work has involved complex, high-profile cross-jurisdictional transactions, co-coordinating legal teams in different Australian states and abroad. While focusing ...
Expertise James is an experienced transactional corporate partner who specialises in: M&A such as off-market takeover bids, schemes, capital reductions and buy-backs and in preparing and negotiating offer, disclosure and shareholder meeting documentation and joint venture, pre-bid and implementation agreements funds management including advising on the structuring, establishment, offering and restructuring of unit trusts and other investment vehicles equity capital markets for example adv...
Tony has been the Hall & Wilcox Managing Partner since 2007. He is well recognised in the legal sector and has led the firm through a period of substantial growth and success. Tony won Managing Partner of the Year at the Australian Law Awards in 2017 and 2015 (and was a finalist in 2014 and 2016). He was also a finalist for Law Firm Leader at the Australasian Law Awards in 2017. Tony won the Law Institute of Victoria Managing Partner of the Year Award in 2009. Tony, as Managing Partner of...
David is a specialist mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets lawyer, who prides himself on delivering successful outcomes for his clients. He is highly sought after for his commitment to, and passion for, providing service of the highest quality. In addition to public and private M&A and capital markets, he is also experienced in joint ventures, corporate and commercial advisory and corporate governance across a number of sectors, including technology, retail, professional ...
Equity Capital Markets Law Definition
“Equity Capital Markets” is the practice area that relates to securities issuance and other equity market transactions.
This area of practice is typically understood to encompass the following specific services and transaction types:
- Public listings - which involves advising entities on their entry onto public markets such as the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”), whether by an Initial Public Offering (commonly referred to as an “IPO”) or by a reverse takeover of a pre-existing listed entity (referred to as a “backdoor listing”);
- Capital raisings - which involves advising entities (whether public or private) on a spectrum of secondary securities offerings, including placements, rights issues, public offers, and hybrid raisings;
- Offerings of securities by entities (whether public or private) under executive or employee incentive schemes, including share, option, and performance rights’ plans;
- General corporate law, regulatory compliance, and ASX Listing Rule advice - including advice regarding directors’ duties, regulatory approvals, and an entities disclosure requirements to its shareholders and investors; and
- Corporate governance - which may involve designing and assisting in implementing necessary corporate governance policies and systems, advising on corporate governance issues and ensuring compliance with the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations.
In Australia, the process by which entities solicit investments in their securities has been a central concern of corporate regulation. To balance the informational asymmetries between issuer and investor, the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) regulates all fundraising activity in Australia through the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (“ASIC”). For entities which are listing or are already listed on the ASX, the ASX Listing Rules also prescribe certain rules and regulations regarding the issue of securities (amongst other matters).
In addition to acting for the entities seeking to raise capital from equity capital markets, lawyers in this area also often act for the numerous other parties involved in equity market transactions, such as selling shareholders, brokers, lead managers, investments banks, private equity firms, corporate advisors, and underwriters.
This area of practice also often intersects with other areas of legal practice such as “Mergers & Acquisitions” and “Private Equity.” For example, a private equity client may pursue an exit of its investment in an entity by undertaking a dual track IPO and trade sale process, or a client may raise capital in order to undertake an acquisition. Accordingly, lawyers in this practice area also may act for entities with respect to significant transactions, including major changes to the nature or scale of the entity’s activities.
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