Ashley Rose
Ashley Rose
Biography
Ashley is a corporate lawyer based in Sydney. Ashley acts for corporate and institutional clients on cross-border M&A, equity capital markets and restructurings on market-leading transactions.
He has strong connections with US-based clients and has a wide range of experience in advising on public M&A and capital markets including takeovers and schemes, initial public offerings, capital raisings and novel market transactions on multi-jurisdictional securities exchanges.
Ashley’s practice focuses on providing corporate and securities law advice to publicly listed companies, boards, investment banks, underwriters and major shareholders.
Ashley has previously been a partner at both Australian and international law firms. In addition to private practice, he has acted as in-house counsel for several international financial and corporate institutions including JP Morgan, Colgate-Palmolive and British Telecom.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Advised Millstreet Capital Management on its recapitalisation and take-private of ASX-listed rare-earths company Jervois Global using a US Chapter 11 prepackaged plan and a concurrent Australian voluntary administration.
- Advised Tamboran Resources on its initial public offering and dual listing of its shares of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange and Australian Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of approximately A$500 million (the latest IPO for a gas exploration company).
- Advised Controlled Thermal Resources on its re-domiciliation to the US by way of a scrip-for-scrip exchange between its members and a newly incorporated top-hat Delaware company, implemented by a scheme of arrangement.
- Advised Thiess Group, the world’s largest mining services provider, on its A$375 million off- market takeover bid for ASX-listed MACA Ltd, including foreign investment and competition clearance.
- Advised Tamboran Resources and Bank of America on a “market first” merger and securities issuance on the ASX with a top-hat scheme of arrangement in the Federal Court and a concurrent institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer.
- Advised Thiess Group on several strategic transactions including the acquisition by shareholders, CIMIC, from Elliott, of an additional 10% equity interest in Thiess for a purchase price of A$320 million.
- Advised Tamboran Resources on one of the largest successful capital raises ever undertaken by a gas exploration company, and a strategic asset acquisition from Origin Energy, raising approximately A$198 million through a two-tranche private placement to strategic partners and US cornerstone investors followed by a share purchase plan.
- Advised Pacific Equity Partners on an initial public offering and listing on ASX of Veda Group Limited, the largest credit reference agency in Australia and New Zealand, with a market capitalisation of approximately AU$1.5 billion.
- Advised the independent directors of ASX-listed Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund on the acquisition by Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL of 56% of TSI Fund stapled securities by scheme of arrangement (enterprise value AU$800+ million).
- Advised ASX-listed Fletcher Building Limited on its approximate AU$800 million off-market takeover of ASX-listed Crane Group Limited.
Education
Education
- Australian Institute of Company Directors (2019)
- Master of Laws (Hons), University of Cambridge (2009)
- Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of New South Wales (2007)
- Bachelor of Science, Murdoch University (2004)
Admissions
Admissions
- Supreme Court of New South Wales 2008
Languages
Languages
- English
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