Costas is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading strategic M&A and securities lawyers and has advised on some of Australia’s most prominent, novel and complex deals. He is one of only a small group of lawyers ranked Band 1 in M&A by Chambers in Australia.
Costas frequently acts for both bidders and targets in takeovers (friendly and unsolicited) and other control transactions, and his significant experience also extends to private M&A, corporate and securities law, capital markets and directors’ duties.
Costas is a member of the Australian Government's Takeovers Panel, Australia’s primary forum for resolving takeover disputes, an adjunct member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney where he lectures on Schemes of Arrangements and the Takeovers Panel in the Masters of Laws course of Takeovers and Reconstructions and is a member of the Corporations Committee of the Law Council of Australia.