About Tom Story
Tom Story is a market leading Australian M&A partner in the Allens Corporate team. He is regularly sought out by leading companies and sponsors globally to advise on their most complex and significant acquisitions and divestments in the Australian market.
Tom is consistently recognised in both Chambers Asia-Pacific and Legal 500 as one of Australia's leading M&A and private equity lawyers.
Selected transactions that Tom has advised on include:
M&A
- Brookfield and EIG Partners – on the consortium's proposed acquisition of Origin Energy by way of scheme of arrangement for $15.4 billion
- VGI Partners – on its merger with Regal Funds Management
- Class Ltd – on its scrip and cash acquisition by HUB24 by way of scheme of arrangement for $382 million
- Rhipe Ltd – on its acquisition by Crayon Group Holding ASA by way of scheme of arrangement for $408 million
- Crestone Wealth Management – on its acquisition by the LGT Group
- Nitro Software – on its acquisition by Potentia Capital by way of a contested takeover offer for $450 million
- Seven Group Holdings – on its successful $8 billion off-market takeover offer for Boral Limited
- Bellamy's – on its acquisition by China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited for $1.5 billion by way of scheme of arrangement
- APN Outdoor – on its acquisition by JCDecaux by way of scheme of arrangement for $1.1 billion
- Equifax Inc. – on its $2.5 billion acquisition of Veda Group Limited
- LOGOS consortium – on its $1.67 billion acquisition of the warehousing and property components of Qube's Moorebank Logistics Park
- Wesfarmers
- on its $20 billion acquisition of Coles Group
- on the sale of its insurance broking businesses to AJ Gallagher for $1.01 billion
- Frasers Centrepoint – on its successful $2.6 billion off-market takeover of Australand Property Group
- The consortium comprising Charter Hall Group, an affiliate of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada – on the $1.8 billion acquisition of the Charter Hall Office REIT
Private Equity
- Advent International – on its acquisition of Zip Industries from Quadrant Private Equity
- Bain Capital Private Equity
- on its acquisition of Camp Australia
- on its sale of Only About Children to Bright Horizons
- BGH Capital
- on its successful contested off-market takeover bid for Virtus Health
- on its acquisition of the Healius medical centres business from Healius Limited
- KKR
- on its proposal to acquire Ramsay Health Limited
- on its agreement with Campbell Soup Company to acquire certain international operations from Campbell for $3.4 billion
- Pacific Equity Partners
- on its acquisition and subsequent $1.167 billion sale of LifeHealthcare to EBOS
- on its acquisition and subsequent sale of WINconnect
- on its acquisition and subsequent sale of AutoPacific Group to GUD Holdings for $744.6 million
- on its acquisition, via portfolio company Pinnacle, of Allied Mills
- on its acquisition and subsequent sale of Patties Foods to PAG
- on its acquisition and subsequent sale of Peters Ice Cream to R&R Ice Cream
- Quadrant Private Equity – on the $615 million acquisition of Jaybro from CPE Capital and subsequent bolt on acquisition of Safe Direction
- Cerberus Capital Management
- on the acquisition of Westpac's auto finance business
- on the acquisition of Westpac's Strategic Alliances business
- on the acquisition of Bluestone Group
- Madison Dearborn Partners – on its acquisition of Quadrant-backed APM Group for $1.6 billion and subsequent participation in the ASX listing of APM
- Hg Capital – on the acquisition of Zenith Investment Partners from 5V Capital
- Archer Capital
- on its acquisition and subsequent $938 million sale of Healthe Care to Luye Medical Group
- on its acquisition and subsequent $1.2 billion sale of MYOB to Bain Capital
Infrastructure M&A
- Morrison & Co and Brookfield – on the $3.4 billion acquisition of Uniti Group by way of scheme of arrangement
- Morrison & Co and Future Fund consortium – on the $2.8 billion acquisition of a 49 per cent interest in Telstra's InfraCo Towers
- Morrison & Co and clients CSC and Infratil – on the $1.1 billion acquisition of Canberra Data Centres from Quadrant Private Equity
- Consortium led by GIP and CPPIB – on the acquisition of Asciano for $9.05 billion by way of a scheme of arrangement
- QIC Global Infrastructure – on the sale of Queensland Motorways to a consortium involving Transurban, Australian Super and ADIA for $7.1 billion
- GIP – on the sale of its 26.7% stake in the Port of Brisbane to CDPQ for more than $1 billion
- Q Port Holdings, a consortium comprising GIP, IFM, QIC and ADIA – on the $2.3 billion acquisition of the 99 year lease of the Port of Brisbane from the Queensland Government
Awards and rankings
- Band 1 Corporate/M&A in Chambers Asia Pacific 2023
- Band 1 Private Equity in Chambers Asia Pacific 2023
- Hall of Fame, Australian Corporate and M&A in Legal 500