Debt Market Deal of the Year

Australian Office of Financial Management 'Forbearance' SPV

• Firms: Clayton Utz, Eticore, King & Wood Mallesons 
• Accountant: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
• Bank: Bank of New York 

Heartland reverse mortgage securitisation

• Firms: Allen & Overy,Clayton Utz, Slaughter & May
• Banks: Australian Seniors Finance (a subsidiary of Heartland Bank), BNY, M&G Investments

National Broadband Network medium-term notes issuance

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Allens Linklaters, nbnco Legal Team
• Accountant: Grant Samuel
• Banks: ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Deutsche Bank, NAB, Westpac

Newcrest US-dollar corporate bond offering

• Firms: Allens, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Accountant: Ernst & Young
• Banks: ANZ, Barclays Capital Asia, BofA Securities, HSBC Securities (USA), J.P. Morgan Securities, MUFG Securities Americas, RBC Capital Markets

Equity Market Deal of the Year

Adore Beauty IPO

• Firm: Gilbert + Tobin
• Accountant: KPMG
• Banks: Crestone Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Shaw and Partners, UBS

Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure IPO

• Firms: Herbert Smith Freehills, King & Wood Mallesons, MinterEllison, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Accountants: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte
• Banks: Bell Potter Securities, Citigroup Global Markets Australia, Credit Suisse (Australia), Crestone Wealth Management, Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia), Morgans Financial, Ord Minnett, Wilsons Corporate Finance

IOOF combined COVID super-sized placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Allens, King & Wood Mallesons 
• Accountant: EY 
• Bank: Citigroup 

Nuix IPO

• Firms: Clayton Utz, Gilbert + Tobin, Sidley Austin, Sullivan & Cromwell 
• Accountant: PricewaterhouseCoopers 
• Banks: Macquarie Capital (affiliate of Macquarie Group), Morgan Stanley Australia Securities 

Sydney Airport equity raising

• Firm: Allens, King Wood Mallesons 
• Accountants: KPMG, PwC 
• Bank: UBS 

Infrastructure & Projects Deal of the Year

Gunnedah and Suntop Solar projects

• Firms: Herbert Smith Freehills, K&L Gates, Maddocks, Norton Rose Fulbright 

Ichthys LNG Project refinancing

• Firms: Allens, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills, Latham & Watkins, NautaDutilh NV 
• Banks: Citigroup, Mizuho Bank 

Moranbah North-Grosvenor mining complex transaction

• Firms: Barbosa Müssnich Aragão Advogados, Clayton Utz, Freshfields, Linklaters, MinterEllison 
• Accountants: EY, PwC

Parramatta Council 5 Parramatta Square and Town Hall project

• Firms: Ashurst, King & Wood Mallesons

Port Kembla LNG import facility

• Firm: Allens, Ashurst, Clayton Utz, Herbert Smith Freehills, HWL Ebsworth, K&L Gates

Insolvency & Restructuring Deal of the Year

Bain Capital acquisition of Virgin Australia

• Firm: Clayton Utz, Herbert Smith Freehills, Jones Day, K&L Gates 
• Accountant: Deloitte 
• Banks: Jefferies 

LJ Hooker restructuring

• Firms: Allens Linklaters, Ashurst, Baker McKenzie, Corrs Chambers Westgarth,Gadens, Gilbert + Tobin 
• Accountant: KPMG

Ovato restructuring

• Firms: Allens, Ashurst, Baker & McKenzie, Cornwalls, Herbert Smith Freehills, King & Wood Mallesons, MinterEllison, Norton Rose Fulbright  
• Accountants: McGrathNicol, 333 Capital 
• Advisors: Duff & Phelps, Scottish Pacific Business Finance, Wexted Advisors 
• Banks: ANZ, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft 

Pilbara Minerals acquisition of Altura Lithium Operations

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Clayton Utz, Lavan
• Bank: Macquarie 

Purchase of Cockatoo Island mining assets

• Firm: Pragma Lawyers
• Accountant/Receiver-Manager: Auxilium Partners

Mid-Market Deal of the Year

Aroa Biosurgery IPO

• Firms: Aroa Biosurgery IPO, Chapman Tripp, MinterEllison, Rimon Law

BGH Capital acquisition of Healius Primary Care

• Firms: Allens,Herbert Smith Freehills, King Wood Mallesons 
• Accountants: EY, PwC 
• Banks: Morgan Stanley, UBS 

Citadel acquisition of Wellbeing Software

• Firms: Ashurst, Gadens, Gilbert + Tobin, Herbert Smith Freehills, Stephenson Harwood (UK), Taylor Wessing (UK)

Crescent Capital Partners acquisition of PRP

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Allens, Herbert Smith Freehills, Jones Day, MinterEllison 
• Accountant: Ernst & Young 
• Banks: Barings Global Private Loans, Barings Segregated Loans, BAYVK R PD 1 Loan, Goldman Sachs Australia Capital Markets, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 

eBay acquisition of Cox Australia Media Solutions

• Firms: DLA Piper, Gilbert + Tobin,Hogan Lovells
• Accountant: EY 

Piangil Almond Orchard sale

• Firm: Gadens, MinterEllison

Tattarang cross-border purchase of RM Williams

• Firms: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Clayton Utz, Gilbert + Tobin, Simpson Grierson
• Bank: Goldman Sachs

M&A Deal of the Year

Anheuser-Busch InBev divestment in Australia

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gilbert + Tobin, Johnson Winter & Slattery 
• Accountants: EY, PwC 
• Banks: Lazard, Nomura, Rothschild

CIMIC divestment of its interest in Thiess

• Firms: Allen & Overy, Allens, Ashurst, Borden Ladner Gervais, Desai Law Group, ENSafrica (Mauritius), Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, Herbert Smith Freehills South Africa, McKinsey & Company, MinterEllison, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Morales & Besa, Pimenta e Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, Rajah & Tann Singapore, Shardul AmarchandMangaldas & Co, Wood Mackenzie 
• Advisor: Marsh 
• Accountants: EY, JP Morgan, PwC 

GrainCorp demerger of its international malting business

• Firm: Gilbert + Tobin, KWM 
• Accountants: KPMG, PwC
• Banks: Blackpeak Capital, Credit Suisse, Grant Samuel, Macquarie 

Resolution Life acquisition of the Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses of AMP Life

• Firms: Allens, Ashurst, Bell Gully – New Zealand, Chapmann Tripp – New Zealand, Debevoise & Plimpton, Greenwoods, Herbert Smith Freehills, KWM 
• Accountant: KPMG 
• Banks: Deutsche Bank, UBS 

Saracen Mineral Holding merger with Northern Star Resources

• Firm: Ashurst, DLA Piper 
• Accountants: Deloitte Corporate Finance, Ernst & Young Strategy and Transactions, PriceWaterhouseCoopers  
• Banks: Macquarie Capital, Sternship Advisers 

Vodafone Hutchison Australia acquisition of TPG Corporation

• Firms: Allens, Herbert Smith Freehills, Norton Rose Fulbright, Prolegis Lawyers 
• Advisor: Lonergan Edwards & Associates 
• Accountants: Deloitte, Herbert Smith Freehills, KPMG  
• Banks: BofA Securities Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Macquarie Capital