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Capital Markets
Luck is many things to many people. A dropped catch could be seen as bad luck if you’ve let the ball spill from your hands, but to us it’s an opportunity lost, and one that might have given a different result with the right training and attitude. We play to win, and that is why we don’t rely on luck.
The capital markets are about opportunities to build your organisation’s reputation, to establish firm financial and shareholding foundations and to use systems and processes to acquire or access additional and diversified assets and funding.
The price of these opportunities is regulation and risk. We partner with our clients to efficiently and effectively chart the markets’ regulatory regime and optimise business outcomes for market participants and market facilitators.
We identify and manage risk to structure your capital market transactions so that your interests are protected.
Middletons’ capital markets lawyers, individually and collectively, have extensive experience of market and deal complexities, including in connection with companies, trusts, managed investment schemes, dual listed entities and entities employing stapling strategies. Our clients include underwriters, lead managers, corporate advisors as well as entities which are listed or seek to be listed or otherwise raise funds through the capital markets.
Instruments and securities that we work with include debt and equity, stapled, convertible, mezzanine, secured, unsecured and securitised.
Transactions on which we advise include initial public offerings, rights issues, placements, takeovers and restructuring, including schemes of arrangement resulting in mergers. We advise listed clients on their ongoing disclosure and consent obligations, assisting in liaising with the Australian Stock Exchange and other regulators including the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
A sophisticated depth of expertise at the right level is critical when providing advice on capital markets transactions and as such our capabilities and resources are geared to give you distinct competitive advantages.
We also draw on the depth of skills available from our experienced lawyers in commercial and corporate advisory, banking and finance as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Flexible and dynamic in our approach to pricing, we’re happy to share the risk with you through innovative fee structures.
With offices in both Melbourne and Sydney, we are well placed to work closely with you to provide the best quality legal services for your business.
Your success is our greatest business triumph – that and providing value for money is the source of our pride.
