About Madeleine Hunt
Madeleine specialises in advising high-growth companies, investors and corporates on mergers and acquisitions, private capital raisings, equity incentive arrangements, commercial contracting and corporate governance matters.
She is a core member of Allens Accelerate, a practice dedicated to supporting the Australian startup community and providing expert legal advice to startups, investors and corporates.
Madeleine's experience includes advising:
M&A
- Canva:
- on its acquisition of Leonardo.AI, one of Australia's most successful emerging generative AI content platform providers; and
- on the Australian corporations law aspects of its ~US$1.5 billion share offer process, reported to be one of the largest offers of this type by a technology company globally.
- Playground XYZ – on its sale to media and technology leader, GumGum.
- Westpac – on its acquisition of personal financial management app, MoneyBrilliant.
- Quantium – on the establishment of its incorporated data analytics and AI services joint venture with Telstra.
- TPG – on its acquisition of 5G spectrum holdings from Dense Air.
Investments
- QIC:
- on the joint investment of almost $1 billion by the Australian and Queensland Governments in technology company PsiQuantum, to build the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer; and
- on the establishment and deployment of the Queensland Venture Capital Development Fund.
- AirTree Ventures – on various investments, including into space technology startup, HEO, superannuation startup, GROW and virtual event platform, Delegate Connect.
- Clean Energy Finance Corporation – on its investments into innovative hydrogen-related technology startup, Hysata, lithium-ion battery recycling technology, Renewable Metals, microfabrication technology startup, MicroTau and solar technology startup, SunDrive Solar.
- Symphony Infrastructure Partners – on its innovative $488 million debt and equity financing package from Blackstone, to accelerate the growth of its energy transition infrastructure platform.
- Westpac – on its participation in the $28 million Series B round of AI fintech Rich Data Co and a Series C investment into banking-as-a-service platform provider, 10X.
- Rio Tinto – on its investment into, and commercial partnership with, Founders Factory to establish the Rio Tinto & Founders Factory Mining Tech Program.
- Various high growth companies – on their equity and hybrid private capital raising transactions from leading Australian and overseas venture capital firms, including Relectrify, HealthMatch, The Daily Aus, Zetifi, Servicely and Safewill.