Diamond National Partners
Deloitte’s Turnaround & Restructuring team handle a very wide range of complex issues, including turnarounds, capital restructures, rapid mergers and acquisitions, and all forms of formal insolvency appointment, including receiverships, liquidations, and voluntary administrations.
As our clients face their most complex and challenging events, we support and advise them on managing change, mitigating risk and resolving disputes. We provide a unique mix of capabilities all under one roof — a blend of expertise, industry insights and genuine global coverage.
Our diverse team of professionals includes forensic accountants, lawyers, economists, journalists, e-discovery experts, and insolvency practitioners. These experts have made a tangible and positive impact on some of the world’s most memorable events, including corporate collapses, major M&As, regulatory shifts, complex disputes and international crises. We have offices located in the four largest Australian cities, and over 6,950 global colleagues. We stand ready to make a positive impact for you, armed with highly potent skills tailored to meet your unique challenges.
Pickles are Australia’s largest valuation, advisory and asset remarketing organisation dedicated to delivering excellence at every step. We have a truly national footprint with 27 facilities nationwide, as well as one in Malaysia, and over 800 staff committed to the management of assets. We hold 150 online and onsite public auctions monthly, and in addition, we leverage fixed price sales, public tenders and expressions of interest to provide a solution tailored to our clients’ specific assets.
Platinum National Partners
Founded in 2004 by Chester Moynihan and Adrian Loader, Allegro is Australia’s most-awarded turnaround team. As specialists in transformational capital, our distinctly hands-on approach applies capital and expertise to unlock the potential and creating business value for the companies and investors we work with.
Since we began investing institutional capital, our market-leading operational improvement and restructuring capability has helped transform a number of underperforming businesses.
In an interconnected and unpredictable world where Australasian companies face disruption, financial challenges, shifting regulation, and evolving workforce and customer demands, A&M is uniquely positioned to support its clients in navigating these challenges. We act as an agent of change and as a trusted partner to enable our clients to deliver during transitional and transformational times.
We provide business performance improvement, turnaround management and business advisory services to companies, private equity firms, and public organisations. We help develop and execute solutions that enable them to succeed given the challenges they face today.
Our standing within the legal profession has been built over more than 60 years. Many of the values, characteristics and defining qualities from Arnold Bloch Leibler’s early beginnings continue to shape the firm as it stands today.
With offices in Melbourne and Sydney, the firm is operated as a professional practice rather than a corporatised business. The firm has a small firm feel with a big firm reputation, possessing influence within legal, business and political circles. We recognise that our success is defined by the quality of our people, our clients and of our work.
Our vision is to be the most progressive global law firm. For us, “progressive” is a mindset, an approach to how we do things. We instinctively take a fresh perspective on situations, exploring whether there are better ways of delivering practical, commercial solutions to the challenges our clients face in today’s rapidly changing business landscape.
Our Australian offices work on some of the most significant transactions in Asia Pacific, such as representing the New South Wales government on the sale of its electricity retail and generation assets — the country’s largest privatization.
Baker McKenzie in Australia has recently advised Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) on its AUD 4 billion acquisition of the global asset management division (CFSGAM) of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). CFSGAM manages AUD 218.4 billion in funds investments for clients around the world, including many substantial investments in infrastructure assets. The transaction was subject to many regulatory approvals around the world. The Australian offices have also successfully acted for its client, Orora Limited (ASX: ORA), in entering into a binding agreement to sell its Australasian Fiber Business to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Limited (Nippon Paper) for an enterprise value of AUD 1.72 billion.
Clayton Utz is a leading Australian law firm with a uniquely independent and diverse culture and service offering. As a full-service commercial law firm, they have experience in a range of specialisations and industry sectors, both in Australia and internationally.
We are one of the world’s largest law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.
As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegial and team-based way of working.
We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. We provide them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Last, but not least, we aim to be easy to work with, down to earth and approachable.
We provide exceptional legal services across the full spectrum of matters, including major transactions, projects and significant disputes, offering strategic advice on our clients’ most challenging issues.
With more than 175 years of history and a talented and diverse team of over 1000 people, we pride ourselves on our client-focused approach and commitment to excellence. Our fundamental ambition is the success of our clients, and this is reflected in everything we do.
We advise on the most significant global matters and connect with the best lawyers internationally to provide our clients with the right team for every engagement. We are also at the forefront of some of the most high-profile public international law matters in our region, assisting governments and corporations with the resolution of highly complex cross-border disputes.
We are the firm of choice for many of the world’s leading organisations, with our people consistently recognised for providing outstanding client service and delivering exceptional results.
Herbert Smith Freehills is one of the world’s leading law firms. With 25 offices spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, we advise many of the biggest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. Our Restructuring, Turnaround and Insolvency team is a market leader both nationally and globally with highly experienced specialists in a range of restructuring, distressed debt, special situations and formal insolvency transactions.
The bankers in our Sydney office work seamlessly with Houlihan Lokey’s global network of professionals to deliver world-class financial and strategic advice to clients located or doing business across the Australian region. The team has had a strong track record in the Australian market for over a decade, providing strategic alternatives that enhance shareholder value.
KordaMentha is an advisory and investment firm with prominent Turnaround, Forensic, Real Estate, and Restructuring practices. Established by Mark Korda and Mark Mentha in 2002, today the firm employs over 300 specialists across Asia-Pacific with diverse backgrounds including accounting, agriculture, real estate, law enforcement, data analytics, retail, investment banking, restructuring and the C-suite who apply their real world experience, together with rigour and creativity to help clients overcome complex commercial matters.
At Kroll, we understand the pressures of restructuring businesses and investments in challenging times. We help companies, lenders and investors take charge of complex situations under the toughest conditions.
MA Financial Group Limited, formerly Moelis Australia, is an ASX-listed financial services firm specialising in asset management, corporate advisory and equities.
Launched in 2009, we have advised on transactions worth over $110 billion and assisted clients to raise $11.5 billion in equity capital markets. Today, we have $5.4 billion in assets under management.
Established as a joint venture with NYSE-listed Moelis & Company – a leading global independent investment bank – the firm has grown to become a team of 300+ across Sydney, Melbourne, London, Beijing and Shanghai.
McGrathNicol is a specialist Advisory & Restructuring firm that has built a reputation for managing complexity and consistently delivering the results our clients need. Our team of independent experts work across all industry sectors and business sizes delivering valuable advice and high-quality outcomes. Our clients trust us with the most important aspects of their business.
Mills Oakley is a leading national law firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide. With over 145 partners and more than 800 staff, we offer strong expertise across all key commercial practice areas.
From origins in Melbourne in 1864, Mills Oakley has grown to become a domestic leader in legal services with a client base of ASX-200 listed companies, mid-sized corporations, the public sector and not-for-profit organisations.
At PwC Australia, we are a passionate community of solvers coming together in unexpected ways. It all adds up to The New Equation. At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. In our increasingly complex world, we work with businesses, government and the community to deliver solutions and sustained outcomes. To help Australia continue to thrive and grow.
Gold National Partners
BDO is a trusted adviser to clients looking for Audit, Tax and Advisory services. As one of the world’s leading Audit and Accounting organisations, we have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across an array of industry sectors.
Global Loan Agency Services Limited was established in 2011 as an independent provider of finance administration services. Global Loan Agency Services Limited is a privately owned business, founded by Mia Drennan and Brian Carne. Global Loan Agency Services Limited (“GLAS”) is recognised as the premier independent, non-creditor, conflict-free provider of loan agency and bond trustee services.
We are focused on evolving the traditional approach to corporate and commercial legal services. We react quickly to change while continuously driving maximum value for clients by providing exceptional service, finding creative solutions and delivering smart advice.
Recognised as one of the world’s most innovative law firms, King & Wood Mallesons offers a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience. With access to a global platform, a team of over 2400 lawyers in 28 locations around the world works with clients to help them understand local challenges, navigate through regional complexity, and to find commercial solutions that deliver a competitive advantage for our clients.
KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and territories and in FY20 had close to 227,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.
KPMG helps management to stabilise the business, reorganise borrowings, enhance profitability and build a platform for sustainable growth.
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Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full business law service to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. We have more than 3,500 lawyers and other legal staff based in 50 offices in over 30 countries, spanning Australia, Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Our global team of bankruptcy, financial restructuring and insolvency lawyers deliver worldwide financial restructuring and insolvency services in all key industry sectors and are at the forefront of many of the most significant cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases involving complex multi-jurisdictional issues and regional insolvency laws.
Silver National Partners
Allens is a leading international law firm with a long and proud heritage of shaping the future for our clients, our people and the communities in which we work.
Gilbert + Tobin was founded in 1988 by Danny Gilbert and Tony Tobin as a small team of lawyers focused on providing excellent legal advice on high-profile, complex matters.
We have had outstanding success since those early days. We are now recognised as a leading transactions, regulatory and disputes law firm. We handle some of the most complex transactions in Australia, advising acquirers, targets and financiers. We are trusted by clients on sensitive regulatory investigations and approvals, litigation and Royal Commissions.
We partner with SMEs and Small Caps to define the issues and identify practical solutions so they (and you) can take control at every phase of the business cycle – from expanding to transforming to winding down.