Adam D'Andreti

Biography

Adam is a partner in our Corporate Advisory group.

He is one of the busiest capital markets lawyers in Australia, having advised on all major Australian IPOs in recent years. Adam is a trusted adviser to many ASX listed clients who value Adam’s pragmatism and responsiveness on their critical M&A and capital raising transactions as well as his judgement in guiding them on disclosure and corporate governance matters.

Adam specialises in acting on equity capital markets transactions and advising on Australian securities law issues and has extensive experience advising both issuers and lead managers on IPOs, rights issues, institutional placements, block trades and other secondary raisings in Australia.

Adam is also recognised for his work on public regulated and private mergers and acquisitions transactions, including for ASX-listed and other corporate clients. He is a trusted adviser to listed entities, their investors and investment banks, sharing his extensive knowledge of ASX listing rules, executive remuneration, corporate governance (including mandatory Australian disclosure regimes), shareholder activism, capital management, shareholder matters and general corporate law issues.

Adam is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Committee and is regularly involved in providing feedback to the government, regulators and the ASX on new policy and legal developments.

Experience

Adam’s experience highlights include advising:

  • Virgin Australia Holdings Limited and Bain Capital on Virgin Australia's $2.3 billion IPO and ASX listing. Adam also advised Bain Capital and Virgin Australia on Bain Capital’s sale of a 25% interest in Virgin Australia to Qatar Airways Group prior to the IPO.

  • Sigma Healthcare on its $8.8 billion reverse takeover and ASX listing of Chemist Warehouse.

  • Guzman y Gomez (GYG) on its IPO and ASX listing. The offer of GYG shares raised $335 million and on completion of the IPO GYG had a market capitalisation of approximately $3 billion.

  • Joint lead managers, Macquarie Capital, J.P. Morgan, UBS AG, Goldman Sachs and Morgans Limited on the $2.5 billion IPO and ASX listing of HMC Capital’s DigiCo REIT.

  • Joint lead managers, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley on the $1.58 billion IPO and ASX listing of GemLife Communities Group.

  • SiteMinder on its $1.36 billion IPO and ASX listing.

  • Yancoal Australia Ltd on the first ever dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and associated IPO involving the use of an Australian rights issue.

  • Bluebet Holdings Limited on its all scrip merger and acquisition of betr and associated institutional placement.

  • Ardent Leisure Group (now Coast Entertainment) on its $1.1 billion sale of Main Event and associated shareholder approval required under the ASX Listing Rules. Adam earlier advised Ardent Leisure Group on its corporatisation and destapling.

  • Sonic Healthcare Limited on its fully-underwritten $600 million institutional placement and non-underwritten $100 million share purchase plan to fund its $750 million acquisition of US-based Aurora Diagnostics.

  • Beach Energy Limited on its $1.585 billion acquisition of Lattice Energy and $301 million accelerated entitlement offer.

  • Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. on its $505 million block trade sale out of ASX-listed Worley.

  • Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and UBS as joint lead managers and underwriters to the $1.2 billion ANREO and institutional placement undertaken by carsales.com.au Limited to fund its acquisition of the remaining 51% of U.S. based Trader Interactive that it didn’t already own.

  • Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation, a Commonwealth Statutory corporation, on its strategic review and potential divestment of the Ayers Rock Resort (including separation of land and divestment to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation).

Awards and Recognition

  • Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards 2020, 2021 and 2024

    Capital Markets Partner of the Year

  • Chambers Asia-Pacific 2019 – 2025

    Adam is ranked for Capital Markets: Equity

  • The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2021 – 2025

    Adam is recognised as a Leading Partner for Capital Markets: Equity

  • IFLR1000 2024

    Highly regarded for Capital Markets: Equity

  • Chambers Global 2017 - 2025

    Ranked for Capital Markets: Equity

  • The Best Lawyers in Australia 2019 - 2026

    Ranked for Corporate Law, Equity Capital Markets Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law