Melanie acts for multinational corporations and Australian businesses on mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, schemes of arrangement, joint ventures, capital raisings and corporate finance, with particular experience in cross-border transactions and foreign investment regulatory issues.

Biography

Melanie acts for multinational corporations, large private companies and Australian businesses on corporate transactions, borrower-side debt finance and ongoing commercial matters. Her clients include global food and consumer goods groups, automotive distributors, industrial manufacturers and technology companies operating across Australia, Hong Kong and internationally.

Melanie advises on the full range of corporate transactional work: acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, schemes of arrangement, joint ventures, capital raisings, corporate finance and borrower-side debt finance. She also advises on ongoing corporate, commercial and regulatory matters for retained clients, with a special interest in foreign investment regulation. Her cross-border practice draws on experience in international law firms in both Australia and Hong Kong, with particular depth in cross-border M&A, corporate finance and financial regulation.

Melanie’s transactional work spans acquisitions by global multinationals in the food, automotive, industrial and technology sectors, including cross-border structures involving Australian, Hong Kong and European counterparties. She acts as ongoing corporate counsel to several significant client groups, managing the full spectrum of their acquisition activity, debt funding, commercial contracting and regulatory compliance.

Melanie’s practice is grounded in international experience across Australian and Hong Kong law firms, with specialisation in cross-border M&A, joint ventures and foreign investment regulation. She brings both transactional depth and sector breadth to her work, acting for significant multinational clients on complex cross-jurisdictional transactions as well as providing sustained corporate advisory support to major client groups.

Credentials

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Melanie's experience

Kilcoy Global Foods

Acted for the Kilcoy Global Foods group on acquisitions, corporate, commercial, regulatory and financing matters. Kilcoy Global Foods is a multinational food services business with operations across Australia and internationally.

Servco Australia Group

Acted for the Servco Australia group, Australia’s largest Toyota dealer group, on acquisitions, disposals and ongoing corporate, commercial and regulatory matters.

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises / Domino’s Pizza Japan

Advised Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited on its acquisition of Bain Capital’s minority interest in Domino’s Pizza Japan, taking Domino’s to 100% ownership of that market.

Queen Fine Foods / Dr Oetker

Acted for the shareholders of Queen Fine Foods on their sale to Dr Oetker, a German multinational food processing company.

Michelin / Klinge Holdings

Acted for Michelin in its acquisition of Klinge Holdings, a supply chain management technology provider.

Awards, recognition and ranking