Peter Cook

Biography

 Peter has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry and is regularly ranked as one of Australia's leading capital markets, mergers & acquisitions and private equity lawyers in national and international surveys such as Chambers Global, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who, Asia Pacific 500, IFLR and Euromoney’s Guides. He was recently ranked by Chambers Global 2015 as Band 1 in Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity Capital Markets and Private Equity, the only Australian lawyer to achieve that status. He was awarded Best Lawyers’ Sydney Equity Capital Markets "Lawyer of the Year" (2013) and Sydney Private Equity "Lawyer of the Year" (2012). Recent Experience Major M&A transactions Wilmar International Limited and First Pacific Company Limited on the $1.9 billion acquisition of Goodman Fielder. Quadrant Private Equity on its investment in VIP Petfoods. ACFS Port Logistics on its joint venture with Patrick Port Logistics. CHAMP and Headland Capital on the $620 million takeover of Miclyn Express. Westpac on it’s $8 billion enterprise value acquisition of Lloyds Banking Australian businesses. Advising GrainCorp on the $3.4 billion takeover from Archer Daniels Midland. The consortium comprising Noble Group, Posco Australia, National Pension Service of Korea, Korea Investment Corporation and Korean Finance Corporation on the proposed acquisition of ASX listed company Arrium Limited (approx $3 billion). Quadrant on the acquisition and divestment of City Farmers and the acquisition of Zip Industries. Pepper Australia Pty Limited on its proposal to acquire RHG Limited. CHAMP on the acquisition of Accolade Wines from Constellation. Rockwood Holdings Inc on the proposed takeover of an Australian public company with TSX-listing, Talison Lithium Limited ($750 million). CHAMP Private Equity on its public-to-private of ASX listed company Gerard Lighting Group Limited ($186 million). Advising ASX listed company Ludowici Limited in relation to competing proposals from FLSmidth and The Weir Group PLC to acquire all of the issued capital of Ludowici ($388 million). Pacific Equity Partners on its public-to-private of ASX listed Spotless Group ($1.1 billion). Blackstone on its takeover of ASX listed Valad Property Group ($700 million). Blackstone’s acquisition of ASX listed Centro’s US property asset portfolio ($9.4 billion). Carlyle and TPG’s takeover of ASX listed company Healthscope ($2.7 billion). Chinalco on its proposed equity and asset investment in ASX and LSE dual-listed Rio Tinto (US$19.5 billion). Chinalco on its acquisition of 12% of Rio Tinto Plc (US$14 billion). CVC Asia Pacific’s acquisition of Nine Entertainment Co and debt to equity restructure ($5.5 billion)

Research Interest

 Agricultural Sciences