Sophie Davey

• Advising Thiess Group, the world’s largest mining services provider, on its AU$375 million takeover bid for ASX-listed MACA Ltd.
• Advising Tamboran Resources Ltd on one of the largest successful capital raises ever undertaken by a junior gas explorer in Australia. The transaction involved raising approximately AU$138 million through a two tranche private placement to strategic partners and US cornerstone investors, and is to be followed by a share purchase plan to existing shareholders to be completed in October 2022.
• Advising Morse Micro on its AU$140 million Series B funding round, one of Australia’ largest venture capital investments with blue-chip local and international investors.
• Advising Tamboran Resources Limited, a public oil and gas company, on:
• Its successful AU$61 million IPO and ASX debut with a market capitalisation of approximately AU$260 million, the largest IPO for a gas explorer in Australia in nearly a decade.
• A post-IPO AU$35 million capital raise via private placement with a prominent US-based individual and other institutional investors.
• Advising Janison Education Group, a leading ASX listed digital assessment and testing provider on a successful AU$18 million capital raise through an AU$15 million institutional placement and AU$3 million share purchase plan.
• Advising Blue Ocean Equities as lead manager on various capital raisings, including a pre-IPO convertible note issue by Lever Holdings Pty Ltd and Tempus Resources Limited’s AU$6.28 million private placement of Canadian flow through shares.
• Advising an Australian fintech company in the “Buy Now, Pay Later” space on its AU$65 million pre-IPO debt and equity capital raising activities, including drafting and negotiating debt facilities, convertible notes, share subscription agreements and other debt/equity-related instruments.
• Advising Australia’s largest cyber security provider on four separate acquisitions.
• Advising the Australian arm of one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers in achieving beneficial commercial outcomes across numerous contractual negotiations while on secondment.
• Assisting a multibillion-dollar US-listed entity successfully in expediting an urgent FIRB application, against the backdrop of extended waiting periods due to COVID-19 regulations.
• Assisting a client to achieve an AU$12million settlement of a long-standing and complex shareholder and directors’ dispute involving various mining entities.
• Advising the sellers on the sale of a logistics software developer to a US-based logistics software company.
• Advising a UK-based defence technology company on its acquisition of the entire share capital of an Australian software company.

Note: some of these matters listed were undertaken at previous firms.