Tom Hall

About Tom Hall

Tom is a Managing Associate in the Corporate team in Sydney and is a corporate governance specialist. He has extensive governance experience advising public and proprietary companies of all sizes, across all sectors and at all stages of the business lifecycle, as well as private capital sponsors and their portfolio businesses.

Tom is regularly called on by companies – including many of Australia's largest listed entities – and their directors and officers to advise on the full suite of head office matters and to instill best practice, including in respect of:

• acute and routine disclosure issues, annual and half yearly reporting practices (including climate-related financial disclosures), meeting procedures, directors' duties and liabilities, and ASX Listing Rule compliance;
• identifying and managing legal and governance risks; and
• maintaining relationships with stakeholders (including members, regulators and special interest groups).

In doing so, Tom works collaboratively with specialists from across the firm including the ESG and Risk and Compliance practices to provide wholistic, pragmatic support for our clients. He does this by applying a commercial lens that takes into account global issues and trends and which is informed by his involvement in a number of significant transactions including:

• Sydney Airport – on the $32 billion take private of Sydney Airport by a consortium comprising IFM, Global Infrastructure Partners, QSuper and Australian Super, the largest cash takeover in Australian history
• Brookfield and EIG consortium – on its proposed acquisition by scheme of Origin Energy for an implied enterprise value of $18.7 billion
• Zimmermann shareholders – on the sale of a majority interest to Style Capital and subsequently to Advent International
• Westpac – on:
  • the proposed sale of its wealth management investment platforms BT Panorama and Asgard;
  • the merger of BT’s personal and corporate superannuation funds (FUA of $37.8 billion) with Mercer Super Trust and sale of Advance Asset Management (FUM of $43.7 billion) to Mercer Australia; and
  • the sale of its lenders mortgage insurance business to Arch Capital and related 10 year supply agreement
• NSW Government – on a series of transactions, including:
  • the partial sale of the WestConnex toll road network for $9.3 billion, and the subsequent sale of the state's retained interest for $11.1 billion; and
  • the partial leasehold privatisation of Endeavour Energy's electricity distribution network for $7.6 billion and Ausgrid's electricity distribution network for $16.2 billion
• Investa Office Fund – on its response to the competing $3.3 billion proposals from Oxford Properties and Blackstone Real Estate and the proposed management internalisation joint venture
• Consortium of Aware Super and Hastings managed funds – on its successful bid for the NSW land titles office for $2.6 billion
• Aware Super – on its successful bid for the Victorian land title office for $2.9 billion
• Pacific Equity Partners – on its acquisitions of WINconnect, LifeHealthcare and Patties Foods.