Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers Highlights

Transaction Highlights

RMB Capital Partners

Advisor to RMB Capital Partners in relation to the acquisition of a majority stake in NDA Engineering, a leading New Zealand stainless steel fabricator.

DB Capital Partners

Advisor to a consortium led by Rayonier New Zealand and RREEF Infrastructure, the global infrastructure arm of Deutsche Asset Management, in relation to the NZ$435m acquisition of 94,600 hectares of New Zealand forests from Carter Holt Harvey and subsequent NZ$270m purchase by the consortium of 40,000 hectares of Rayonier New Zealand's forestry estates.

Gresham Private Equity

Advisor to Gresham Private Equity in relation to the NZ$138.5m acquisition of Noel Leeming and Bond & Bond retail chains from PRG and financing of the acquisition.

Masthead Limited

Advisor to Masthead Limited in relation to the hostile takeover of Vertex Group to take the company private and subsequently merge it with Alto Plastics Limited. The total transaction size was in excess of NZ$140m.

Sturgess Equities No 2 Limited

Advisor to Sturgess Equities No 2 Limited in relation to the acquisition of Tiri Group Limited - a diversified group of industrial companies comprising Masport, Masport Foundries, A&G Price, RH Freeman, NZ Insulators and Pacific Wallcoverings with total revenues in excess of $100m.

Allied Farmers Limited

Advisor to Allied Farmers Limited and its subsidiaries in relation to the acquisition of Nationwide Finance Limited from the Hanover Group for NZ$33 million.

Contact Energy

Advisor to the Independent Directors of Contact Energy in relation to a takeover offer by Edison Mission Energy (2001). Advisor to the Independent Directors of Contact Energy in relation to a takeover offer by Origin Energy (2004) for NZ$3,275m.

Carter Holt Harvey

Advisor to the Independent Directors of Carter Holt Harvey in relation to a takeover offer from Rank Group. NZ$2.804bn.

Capital Properties

Advisor to the Independent Directors of Capital Properties in relation to a takeover from AMP Property Portfolio for NZ$360m.

The Crown

Advisor to the Minister of Finance in relation to the Crown's acquisition of an 82% shareholding through a NZ$885m capital injection and recapitalisation of Air New Zealand.

CHAMP Ventures Pty Limited

Advisor to CHAMP Ventures Pty Limited in relation to the acquisition of the Botanical Food Company Limited (Taura Natural Ingredients).

Old Fashioned Foods

Advisor to Old Fashioned Foods in relation to the purchase of Hansells from Lane Capital (Gary Lane).

Natural Gas Corporation

Advisor to NGC in relation to the acquisition of 25% of Energy Intellect and the acquisition of Energy Intellect's Australian operations.

Gresham Rabo Management Limited

Advisor to Gresham Rabo Management Limited in relation to the acquisition of a substantial interest in New Zealand based food manufacturer, Old Fashioned Foods Limited, through a capital injection.

Wrightson Limited

Advisor to the Wrightson Board in relation to the partial takeover offer for 50.01% by Rural Portfolio Investments.

Air New Zealand

Advisor to Air New Zealand in relation to the proposed alliance with Qantas. Advisor to Air New Zealand in relation to the sale of nzski.com.

Meridian Energy

Advisor to the Board of Meridian Energy in relation to the NZ$640m acquisition of Southern Hydro.

New Zealand Post

Advisor to NZ Post in relation to the purchase of Message Media. Advisor to NZ Post in relation to the acquisition of shares in RD1.com.

Wakefield Health

Advisor to Wakefield Health in relation to the amalgamation with Royston Hospital . EV of NZ$103.4m.

St Laurence Holdings

Advisor to St Laurence Holdings on the acquisition of the National Property Trust management contract (NPT is a listed property trust with over $250m of assets under management).

Kingsgate International Corporation Limited

Advisor to the Independent Directors of Kingsgate in relation to the takeover offer from KIN Holdings Limited.

Rural Equities Limited

Advisor to the Board of Rural Equities in relation to the partial takeover offer by H&G Limited.

Auckland University of Technology

Advisor to AUT in relation to the acquisition of UNIPARK.

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