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Private Equity
In many ways, private equity is the fuel that powers business activity in the mid-cap market. It is easily transportable, can be dropped into a new venture and moved out of another with relative ease. We bring to the table more than just quality legal advice; we bring a unique blend of skill sets that helps generate more power for your transaction.
Private equity is all about cash flow, identifying and protecting against leakages and understanding the key business drivers. It is about spreadsheets and numbers, a life cycle, and finding partners with a philosophical alignment as well as just the raw understanding of what it takes to get the deal the done. It is about having the flexibility to innovate.
Many of our partners have experience gleaned from the coal face, not just as lawyers but in various parts of industry, including private enterprise, investment banking and many other professions.
It means we are able to look at issues differently to other law firms. We are comfortable with the numbers because we’ve lived them. We know the legal issues because that’s what we do. We understand the value of partnering with our clients, of introductions and other connections.
That is why we set up unique ‘Private Equity Transaction Teams’ to make sure we are fully aligned to the needs of our clients in a particular deal. We can bring into the team workplace relations, tax, intellectual property, capital markets and finance lawyers and partners as is needed to work with our lead private equity partners.
We operate like that because not every transaction is the same and we don’t think you can just plug a process into the game. Flexibility is the key.
We act for managers and sponsors in the formation of investment funds, private equity investors as they build, grow and exit their portfolio companies, and investee targets who need a helping hand during the process, as well as those of provide debt funding to support such ventures.
As members of the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL), our industry contacts and breadth of experience means our reliable and cost efficient service can be tailored to suit your individual requirements.
Post initial fund formation, Middletons provides advice on takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, Corporations Law, debt capital raising, corporate structuring including joint ventures, employment law, intellectual property matters, and capital reorganisations.
On the exit side, we have assisted the execution of well-planned trade sales, IPO’s and mergers allowing investors to partially or completely sell down their investment in the most productive manner.
