Bridget Sutton
Special CounselBiography
Bridget is a Special Counsel in Gilbert + Tobin’s Corporate Advisory group. Her practice includes public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and equity capital markets transactions. She also regularly advises on general corporate, securities law, governance and foreign investment matters.
Bridget holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce (major in Economics) from Monash University.
Experience
Bridget’s experience includes advising:
- The issuers on various IPOs and ASX-listings, including Enlitic, Inc., Damstra Holdings, Viva Energy Group and Convenience Retail REIT.
- Opthea on its IPO of American Depositary Shares and NASDAQ listing.
- The issuers on various rights issues and other secondary raisings, including those undertaken by Opthea, PharmAust, Cleanaway Waste Management, APN Industria REIT and APN Convenience Retail REIT.
- Xero on its various convertible notes offerings on SGX.
- Syrah Resources and Federation Mining respectively, on their convertible notes offerings to AustralianSuper.
- The joint lead managers / underwriters on the rights issues and other secondary capital raisings, including Ansell, Johns Lyng Group, HealthCo Healthcare and Wellness REIT, HMC Capital Limited, Weebit Nano, Wisr, Computershare, Bank of Queensland, Nickel Mines and Perpetual.
- APN Property Group on its schemes of arrangement.
- Various buyers and sellers on various private M&A transactions, including DuluxGroup (Australia)’s acquisition of the Pental Consumer Products business and Shepparton property and Seasol business respectively, Cargo Crew group’s majority sale to, and subscription by, Glow Capital, My Plan Manager.com.au’s acquisition of National Disability Support Partners, MYOB’s acquisition of Flare HR and Ansell’s sale of its sexual wellness business to Humanwell Group and CITIC.