Alex Kauye

Recent private equity experience

• KKR on its acquisition of Perpetual’s corporate trust and wealth management businesses by way of multiple schemes of arrangement and concurrent demerger of Perpetual’s asset management business 
• Livingbridge on its acquisition of a majority interest in Dimeo from Colinton Capital Partners
• Brightstar Capital Partners on its acquisition of PlayAGS
• River Capital on its takeover bid for Locality Planning Energy 
• KKR on the exit of its investment in Findex by way of recapitalisation transaction involving Mercury Capital
• TPG Capital on its acquisition of InvoCare by way of scheme of arrangement 
• Damstra on its acquisition by Ideagen (an Hg Capital portfolio company) by way of scheme of arrangement 
• IFM Private Equity on its investment in Novigi and the concurrent acquisition of QMV Solutions by Novigi 
• Colombia Asia (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Ramsay Sime Derby Health Care
• KKR on the exit of its investment in GreenCollar by way of sale to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan  
• Eldridge Industries, Brightstar Capital Partners and Claure Group on their acquisition of Ausenco from Recource Capital Funds 
• Morrow Sodali (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Domestique Consulting 
• IFM Private Equity on its investment in Tally Group 
• iNova (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Mundipharma’s consumer healthcare business 
• KKR on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Synergis Fund from Goldman Sachs
• Alludo (a KKR portfolio company) on its proposed acquisition of Nitro Software by way of concurrent scheme of arrangement and takeover bid (including related Takeovers Panel proceedings)
• TPG Capital on its acquisition of iNova from Pacific Equity Partners and Carlyle 
• KKR on its investment in Advanced Navigation 
• Morrow Sodali (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Citadel-MAGNUS
• KKR on the partial sell-down of its stake in GreenCollar to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan  
• Laser Clinics (a KKR portfolio company) on various franchise acquisitions 
• MYOB (a KKR portfolio company) on its acquisition of Flare HR 
• TPG Capital on the partial sell-down of its stake in Novotech to institutional investors 
• River Capital on its acquisition of The Cheesecake Shop from PAG 
• KKR on its acquisition of a majority stake in Colonial First State from CBA 
• Queens Lane Capital on its acquisition of Brand Collective from Anchorage 
• KKR on its acquisition of Education Perfect from Five V
• TPG Capital, Potentia Capital and Aware on their proposed acquisition of Smartgroup by way of scheme of arrangement 
• STORY3 Capital on its acquisition of Coco Republic 
• KKR on its acquisition of Sofitel Wentworth from Frasers
• MYOB (a KKR portfolio company) on its acquisitions of GreatSoft and Roubler and its investments in Flare HR and Butn
• KKR on its investment in GreenCollar 
• Novotech (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its merger with PPC 
• KKR on its logistics joint venture with LOGOS and Mubadala 
• MYOB (a KKR portfolio company) on the sale of Kounta to Lightspeed and the sale of Acumatica to EQT 
• KKR on its industrial and logistics joint venture with Centennial 
• Novotech (a TPG Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of CNS 
• KKR on its residential joint venture with Altis Property Partners
• KKR on its acquisition of MYOB by way of scheme of arrangement 
• TPG Capital on its acquisition of Novotech from Mercury Capital 
• KKR on the sale of Santanol to Mercer International
• Boardriders (an Oaktree Capital portfolio company) on its acquisition of Billabong by scheme of arrangement 
• KKR on its acquisition of a substantial stake in OZ Minerals and the subsequent divestiture of that stake 
• Oaktree Capital and Centerbridge Partners on the acquisition of a substantial interest in Billabong as part of a broader debt/equity recapitalisation (including related Takeovers Panel proceedings)

Other representative matters

• Qube on the acquisition of Melbourne International RoRo & Automotive Terminal (MIRRAT) from Wallenius Wilhelmsen. MIRRAT is the only dedicated roll-on, roll-off terminal servicing the Victorian market
• Financial sponsors and pension / superannuation funds bidding for infrastructure assets, including ports, airports, regulated utilities and data centres
• Vitol Group on its acquisition of Shell’s Australian downstream assets
• Ansell Limited on the sale of its Sexual Wellness business to Humanwell and CITIC following a competitive sale process
• Damstra on its scrip for scrip merger with Vault Intelligence
• DuluxGroup on its acquisition by Nippon Paints by scheme of arrangement
• Ethane Pipeline Income Fund on takeover bid by APA Group
• GrainCorp Limited on the takeover bid by Archer Daniels Midland Company
• Telstra on FOXTEL’s acquisition of AUSTAR United Communications by scheme of arrangement 
• Charter Hall Office REIT on its acquisition by Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, the Canadian Public Sector Pension Investment Board and a member of the Charter Hall Group, executed by way of trust scheme  
• Conquest Mining on its merger with Catalpa Resources and the concurrent purchase of two gold projects from Newcrest Mining to form Evolution Mining
• Riversdale Mining on its takeover by Rio Tinto
• Ross Human Directions on its acquisition by Chandler Macleod by way of scheme of arrangement (including related Takeovers Panel proceedings)