Rachel specialises in corporate and securities law with particular expertise in mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets.
Rachel advises clients on buying, selling, and investing into businesses, takeovers, IPOs, securities law, joint ventures and other corporate law issues.
Recent experience
Rachel has advised:
- Quadrant Private Equity on the $123m IPO of Summerset Group Holdings
- Heartland New Zealand on its $58m capital raising by way of private placements and an underwritten share purchase plan
- the receivers of South Canterbury Finance on the sale of over $100m of FACE Finance’s commercial loan book assets and over $100m of South Canterbury Finance’s business, consumer and rural loan book assets
- Pyne Gould Corporation and Heartland New Zealand on the distribution of Pyne Gould Corporation’s 72% shareholding in Heartland New Zealand to its shareholders by way of a court approved scheme of arrangement
- the merger parties on the $2.2b merger of MARAC Finance, CBS Canterbury and Southern Cross Building Society. The merger involved the amalgamation of three businesses, an IPO of 300 million shares, the transfer of approximately $1.7b of debt securities from three different issuers, the conversion of two building societies into companies and the implementation of a court approved scheme of arrangement
- Direct Capital on the investment by its Direct Capital IV fund into real estate services provider, Bayleys
- Phaunos Timber Fund in relation to its cornerstone investment in, and recapitalisation of, Matariki Forests
- Cadmus Technology in relation to its merger with Provenco Group, and
- Dubai Aerospace Enterprise in relation to its proposed investment in Auckland International Airport.