Costas Condoleon

Biography

Costas is a partner in our Corporate Advisory Group and is a member of our Board.

He is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading strategic M&A and securities lawyers and has advised on some of Australia’s most prominent, novel and complex deals.

Costas frequently acts for both bidders and targets in takeovers (friendly and unsolicited) and other control transactions, and his significant experience also extends to private M&A, corporate and securities law, capital markets and directors duties. 

Costas is an adjunct member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney where he lectures on Schemes of Arrangements and the Takeovers Panel in the Masters of Laws course of Takeovers and Reconstructions, and is a member of the Corporations Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

Experience

Costas’ experience includes advising:

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

  • Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking on its $1.2 billion acquisition of Link Group by scheme of arrangement.

  • Fresenius on its sale of the Cura Day Hospitals business.

  • APA Group on its $773 million acquisition of the Basslink interconnector pipeline, by acquiring the Basslink group’s secured bank debt and subsequently the Basslink group from the appointed administrators and receivers.

  • Macquarie Asset Management and its co-investors on the $3.58 billion sale of Axicom.

  • Cromwell Property Group on its proposed $1.1 billion merger of Cromwell Direct Property Fund with Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund and acquisition of associated management rights.

  • CIMIC on its response to HOCHTIEF Australia’s unsolicited takeover bid valuing CIMIC at $6.85 billion.

  • Virtus Health on its response to the extensive and hard fought contest for control labelled “the M&A battle of the year” by the Australian Financial Review involving a proposed scheme of arrangement and simultaneous takeover bid by CapVest, and unsolicited but ultimately recommended takeover bid by BGH Capital, and associated Takeovers Panel proceedings.

  • Yancoal Australia on its response to the unsolicited take private proposal from Yankuang Energy valuing Yancoal at $7 billion.

  • Orcon on its $1.7 billion merger with 2degrees to create the third largest telco in New Zealand.

  • Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) on its $2.4 billion acquisition of Bingo Industries Limited by scheme of arrangement.

  • MIRA and Aware Super on their $3.5 billion acquisition of Vocus Group Limited by scheme of arrangement.

Awards and Recognition

  • Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

    Band 1 for Corporate/M&A

  • Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2024

    Recognised as a Leading Individual in Corporate and M&A

  • Best Lawyers 2025

    Recognised in the areas of Commercial Law, Corporate/Governance Practice, Corporate Law, Equity Capital Markets Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Private Equity Law, Telecommunications Law

  • IFLR1000 2024

    Highly Regarded for Equity Capital Markets