About Michelle Bennett
Michelle is a Partner in our M&A team in Melbourne, having previously worked at Linklaters, London (our alliance partner).
Michelle specialises in mergers and acquisitions. She advises on a wide range of cross border public and private M&A transactions including share and asset sales, takeovers, schemes, demergers, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations. Michelle has particular expertise and interest in the renewables and healthcare sectors. She also has a focus on ESG issues and corporate governance and is a key member of the Allens Head Office and Governance team.
Michelle's experience includes:
Renewables
- Acciona: the 923MW MacIntyre Wind Farm project in Queensland, including arrangements with joint venture partner Korea Zinc and the sale of the 100MW Karara wind farm to CleanCo.
- Epuron: advising a bidder in relation to the competitive sale process being run by the owners of the Epuron renewables development business, which involved multiple renewable development projects across Australia.
- Offshore wind: advising large international offshore wind developers on their potential investment in early stage offshore wind projects in Australia and New Zealand.
- John Laing: its acquisition of the Cherry Tree Wind Farm project from Infigen.
- EDL: its acquisition of the Cullerin Range Wind Farm from Origin Energy Limited, and various other renewables assets.
- Carbon Market Institute: advising the carbon industry’s peak body in relation to its administration of the Carbon Industry Code of Conduct.
- Intelligent Water Networks: the establishment of a joint venture of 13 Victorian water corporations to purchase renewable power from the Kiamal Solar Farm.
Healthcare
- EBOS Group: various bolt-on acquisitions for medical device and consumables businesses, including Sentry Medical and MD Solutions.
- Healthscope: its COVID-19 funding and other arrangements with each Australian State and Territory and the divestment of its Asian pathology business to TPG.
- GlaxoSmithKline: the sale of its opiates business to Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Australia), a subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical business.
Other
- Coles: its demerger from Wesfarmers and its FlyBuys joint venture with Wesfarmers.
- Sydney Metro City & Southwest: advising the NRT Parties (including Plenary) on the equity arrangements in respect of the augmentation of Australia’s first driverless train metro PPP.
- ANZ: various M&A transactions, including the sale of its pensions and investments and aligned dealer group business.
- BNK: the divestment of its mortgage aggregation business, Finsure, to MA Advisory.
- M2 Group: the merger with ASX-listed Vocus Communications Ltd by scheme of arrangement.
- Vocus: the acquisition of the telecommunications infrastructure assets of Nextgen.