Adam D'Andreti

Partner
Sydney

Biography

Adam is a partner in our Corporate Advisory group.

He specialises in acting on equity capital markets transactions and advising on Australian securities law issues. His extensive experience advising both issuers and lead managers on initial public offerings as well as on rights issues, institutional placements, block trades and other secondary raisings in Australia makes him one of the busiest capital markets lawyers in Australia.

Adam is also well regarded for his work on public regulated mergers and acquisitions transactions and on private M&A transactions, particularly for his ASX-listed and other corporate clients. Adam advises listed entities and various investors on the ASX listing rules, executive remuneration, corporate governance, shareholder activism, capital management, shareholder matters and general corporate law issues.

Adam is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Committee and is regularly involved in providing feedback to Australian governments, regulators and the ASX on new policy and legal developments.

Experience

Adam’s experience highlights include advising:

  • Guzman y Gomez (GYG) on its IPO and ASX listing. The offer of GYG shares raised $335 million and on completion of the IPO GYG had a market capitalisation of approximately $3 billion.

  • Sigma Healthcare on its $8.8 billion reverse takeover and ASX listing of Chemist Warehouse.

  • SiteMinder on its $1.36 billion IPO and ASX listing.

  • Yancoal Australia Ltd on the first ever dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and associated IPO involving the use of an Australian rights issue.

  • Joint lead managers, Macquarie Capital, JP Morgan and Barrenjoey on the $2.4 billion IPO and ASX listing of Ventia Services Group.

  • Bluebet Holdings Limited on its all scrip merger and acquisition of betr and associated $20 million placement two tranche placement.

  • Ardent Leisure Group on its $1.1 billion sale of Main Event and associated shareholder approval required under the ASX Listing Rules.

  • Sonic Healthcare Limited on its fully-underwritten $600 million institutional placement and non-underwritten $100 million share purchase plan to fund its $750 million acquisition of US-based Aurora Diagnostics.

  • Beach Energy Limited on its $1.585 billion acquisition of Lattice Energy and $301 million accelerated entitlement offer.

  • Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. on its $505 million block trade sale out of ASX-listed Worley.

  • Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS as joint lead managers and underwriters to the $1.2 billion ANREO and institutional placement undertaken by carsales.com.au Limited to fund its acquisition of the remaining 51% of U.S. based Trader Interactive that it didn’t already own.

  • Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation, a Commonwealth Statutory corporation, on its strategic review and potential divestment of the Ayers Rock Resort (including separation of land and divestment to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation).

Awards and Recognition

  • Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards 2024, 2021 and 2020

    Capital Markets Partner of the Year

  • Chambers Asia-Pacific 2019 – 2025

    Adam is ranked for Capital Markets: Equity

  • The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2021 – 2023

    Adam is recognised as a Leading Individual for Capital Markets: Equity

  • IFLR1000 2024

    Highly regarded for Capital Markets: Equity

Testimonials

Client first thinking

Adam is incredibly experienced, commercial, professional and accommodating at all times

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

Adam D'Andreti is an established practitioner, advising clients on ECM matters such as IPOs and secondary raisings. A client describes him as 'super-commercial' and 'a great solver of problems' who is "very customer-centric.

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022

He's an approachable partner who knows his stuff. Adam displays a genuine interest in building good relationships. His biggest strength is that, through his style of communication and ability to deliver the right solution that works, he makes complicated issues easy to manage and deal with.

Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020
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