David Tilley
Solicitor
Solicitor
Sydney
Australia
David is a solicitor in our corporate team, focusing on equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.
David advises clients in a variety of corporate transactions and has experience in equity capital markets, public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures and general corporate advisory.
Background
David holds Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New South Wales.
David is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Issuer counsel, IPO equity securities – Judo Bank ($653 million), Best & Less Group ($100 million) and hipages Group ($100 million)
- Issuer counsel, IPO hybrid securities - Commonwealth Bank of Australia on its $1,750 million offer of PERLS XIV Capital Notes (and concurrent PERLS IX reinvestment offer)
- Issuer counsel, secondary raising equity securities:
- Foreign counsel to NZX on its NZ$44 million fully underwritten pro-rata accelerated renounceable entitlement offer
- Wisr on its $55 million fully underwritten institutional placement and non-underwritten share purchase plan
- Lead manager counsel, IPO hybrid securities:
- Westpac Banking Corporation’s $1.5 billion Capital Notes 9 offer (and concurrent Capital Notes 2 reinvestment offer)
- Australia and New Zealand Bank’s $1.28 billion Capital Notes 7 offer (and concurrent Capital Notes 2 reinvestment offer)
- Australian Unity’s $105 million Mutual Capital Instruments offer (the first time that Mutual Capital Instruments were offered in Australia)
- Lead manager counsel, secondary raising equity securities:
- Zip’s $149 million fully underwritten institutional placement
- BWX’s $85 million fully underwritten institutional placement
- Challenger’s $270 million fully underwritten institutional placement
- Webjet’s $275 million fully underwritten institutional placement and partially underwritten accelerated pro-rata, non-renounceable entitlement offer.
- SocietyOne on its acquisition by non-bank lender MoneyMe
- ioneer in relation to a strategic investment by Sibanye-Stillwater
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia on the sale of trading solutions platform AUSIEX to Japanese bank Nomura
- Aurizon in relation to its acquisition of ConPorts, an export terminal and ship loading facility at the Port of Newcastle
- Infrastructure Capital Group in relation to the acquisition of 49.2% of the share capital in Australia and New Zealand's largest privately-owned bus group, Kinetic
- Oxford Property Group on the corporate restructure and sell-down of the Investa Office Fund.
