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Jol’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and other corporate advisory work, including advising domestic and international clients on:

• negotiated mergers and acquisitions including share and asset acquisitions and disposals;
• regulated mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers and schemes of arrangement, with experience acting for both bidder and target;
• equity capital raisings including initial public offers and secondary offers;
• joint ventures and shareholder arrangements;
• corporate restructures;
• corporate governance and directors’ duties;
• compliance with the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules and other regulatory regimes; and
• general commercial work.

Jol’s clients are drawn from a wide range of industries including TMT, health and aged care, financial services, manufacturing, transport and logistics, education and training, private equity, not for profit and sport.

Jol is recommended as a corporate lawyer in Doyle’s Guide and has also been recognised by his peers in ‘Best Lawyers’ in Australia since 2013 and is currently listed in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Equity Capital Markets, Corporate/Governance Practice, Commercial Law and Corporate Law. Jol has been described in Legal500 as “an absolute pleasure to work with. Great availability and cool, calm, collected advice”.

Jol has various professional affiliations including being a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and an alumni of Melbourne Business School, having completed an MBA. Jol is also a director of a charitable foundation and is the returning officer for an AFL club.

Some examples of Jol’s recent experience in his major areas of focus include:

Public M&A

• advising BlackWall Ltd (ASX: BWF) on its off-market scrip takeover bid to acquire Pelorus Private Equity Ltd (2023)
• advising leading payroll and compliance platform Deel, Inc. on its A$120 million acquisition of PayGroup Ltd (ASX: PYG) by scheme of arrangement (2022)
• advising Aussie Broadband Ltd (ASX: ABB) on its A$334 million acquisition of Over The Wire Holdings Ltd (ASX: OTW) by scheme of arrangement (2022)
• advising The Citadel Group Ltd (ASX: CGL) on the A$503 million scheme of arrangement under which Pacific Group Bidco Pty Ltd, an entity owned by funds advised by Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), acquired 100% of the shares in CGL (2020)
• advising 3P Learning Ltd (ASX: 3PL) on a proposed A$189 million scheme of arrangement under which IXL Learning Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary IXL Australia Pty Ltd, would have acquired 100% of the shares in 3PL and 3PL’s subsequent response to a competing proposal from Think and Learn Private Ltd (2020)
• advising OCJ Investment (Australia) Pty Ltd in relation to its application to the Takeovers Panel in relation to the affairs of Flinders Mines Ltd which resulted in a declaration of “unacceptable circumstances” (2019)
• advising Mitre 10 Australia Ltd on two interdependent schemes of arrangement under which Mitre 10 Australia Ltd and Mitre 10 Ltd were acquired by Metcash Ltd (ASX: MTS)

Private M&A

• advising Silk Logistics Holdings Ltd (ASX: SLH) on its $65 million acquisition of Secon Freight Logistics Pty Ltd (2023)
• advising the owners of Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd on the sale of the company to the Australian subsidiary of Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) (2023)
• advising the owners of motorsport technology business MoTeC on the sale of the group to Robert Bosch (Australia) Pty Ltd (2022)
• advising the owners of Construct Traffic on the sale of its traffic management business to AVADA Group Ltd (ASX:AVD) (2022)
• advising BikeExchange Ltd (ASX: BEX) on the acquisition of the remaining 50% of BikeExchange Colombia S.A.S. (2022)
• advising the owners of independent diagnostic imaging provider Imaging Associates on the strategic investment in the group by Advent Partners (2021)
• advising on the stapling of Blackwall Property Trust (formerly ASX: BWR), WOTSO Ltd and Planloc Ltd to form the triple-stapled structure ‘WOTSO Property’ (ASX: WOT) and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with a market capitalisation of A$230 million (2021)
• advising the shareholders of WINconnect Pty Ltd on the sale of the company to Australasian private equity investment firm, Pacific Equity Partners (2020)

Equity Capital Markets

• advising MOVE Logistics Ltd (ASX: MOV, NZX: MOV), one of the largest domestic transport and logistics businesses in New Zealand, on the secondary listing of its shares on the Australian Securities Exchange (2022)
• advising RAS Technology Holdings Ltd (ASX: RTH) on its A$29 million initial public offering and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial market capitalisation of A$68 million (2021)
• advising Aussie Broadband Ltd (ASX: ABB) on its A$114 million placement and A$20 million share purchase plan (2021)
• advising Silk Logistics Holdings Ltd (ASX: SLH) on its A$70 million initial public offering and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial market capitalisation of A$151 million (2021)
• advising Aussie Broadband Ltd (ASX: ABB) on its A$40 million initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial market capitalisation of A$190 million (2020)
• advising 4DMedical Ltd (ASX: 4DX) on its A$55.79 million initial public offering and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial market capitalisation of A$193 million (2020)
• advising Mach7 Technologies Ltd (ASX: M7T) on its A$34.8 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer to fund the CA$38.5 million (approx. A$40.8 million) acquisition of Canadian company Client Outlook Inc, a specialist enterprise viewing technology company (2020)
• advising health club owner and operator, Viva Leisure Ltd (ASX: VVA) on its fully underwritten A$25 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer (2020)
• advising cybersecurity company, Firstwave Cloud Technology Ltd (ASX: FCT) on its A$14.9 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer with a fully underwritten retail component (2020)
• advising Viva Leisure Ltd (ASX: VVA) on its A$20 million capital raise to fund the acquisition of 13 Fit N Fast health clubs (2019)
• advising Viva Leisure Ltd on its A$20 million initial public offering and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange with an initial market capitalisation of A$52 million (2019)

Other Corporate Advisory

• advising DCF Asset Management on the refinancing and corporate reorganisation of the Rapid Loans Group in a deal worth A$50 million (2020)