Norton Rose Fulbright appoints two public M&A and equity capital markets partners in Sydney

Norton Rose Fulbright appoints two public M&A and equity capital markets partners in Sydney

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today welcomes corporate partners Michael Gajic and Ashley Rose in Sydney, focusing on public M&A and equity capital markets. Michael and Ashley have a long history of working together and advising a range of global and domestic clients.

Michael Gajic

Michael is a corporate lawyer with over two decades’ experience advising on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and capital raisings. He is a highly regarded advisor on Australian public M&A transactions, having advised on several of Australia’s landmark takeovers and schemes. Michael’s practice focuses on advising publicly listed companies on transactional and advisory matters in a broad range of industry sectors. He also advises activist investors and listed companies on shareholder activism issues.

Michael has previously been a partner at both Australian and international law firms, most recently at Squire Patton Boggs.

Ashley Rose

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 has previously been a partner at both Australian and international law firms, most recently at Squire Patton Boggs. 

Norton Rose Fulbright chief executive partner in Australia, Alison Deitz, commented:

“It is rare to find two accomplished corporate lawyers, with strong public M&A and equity capital markets capability, who have worked so successfully together to build a complementary global and domestic-focused corporate practice. We expect that Michael and Ashley will fit seamlessly into our national corporate M&A team and find immediate opportunities to work with Australian and international colleagues to support our clients with interests in Australia, Asia, the US, Canada, the UK and around the world.”  

Marshall Bromwich, corporate team leader at Norton Rose Fulbright, commented:

“We are delighted that Ashley and Michael have made the decision to join our growing corporate practice. The combined experience of Ashley and Michael, particularly in public M&A, adds to the depth of our already strong M&A team nationally. We are experiencing strong demand for M&A services in the region, despite some of the present global uncertainty, and we are excited about the prospect of working with Ashley and Michael to continue growing their practices, domestically and internationally.”  

Michael Gajic and Ashley Rose commented:

“The high quality, full-service law firm offering that Norton Rose Fulbright provides on a domestic and global scale 
will provide significant opportunities for clients, particularly in complex, cross-border transactions. We have great confidence in the breadth and depth of the firm’s corporate M&A team in Australia and overseas.” 

This announcement follows the 2025 appointment of partners Lucinda McCann (financial services, Sydney), Kristina Mihalic (government, Canberra) in February; and Vanessa Ward (corporate M&A, Sydney) and Rohan Sridhar (corporate and commercial, Melbourne) in January. And in 2024: Annie Haggar in September (cybersecurity, Canberra); Lisa Fitzgerald in April (technology, Melbourne); Bede Gahan in March (employment and labour, Canberra); Kimberley MacKay in February (regulatory and disputes, Melbourne); and Liz Hastilow (corporate and investment funds, Sydney); Kellie Link (restructuring, Perth), Maria Panos (litigation, Sydney) and Jacqueline Plant (environment and planning, Melbourne) in January.