Minter Ellison advised QR Limited on the restructure of its rail business and assets, as part of the Queensland Government's infrastructure asset sales process. We also acted in the subsequent IPO of QR National, which was the largest IPO in Australia in a decade and the largest new ASX listing since the privatisation of Telstra. 

The QR National IPO won Australian Deal of the Year and Equity Market Deal of the year at the ALB Australasian Law Awards 2011.

The ABC Learning Centres receivership was one of the largest and most complex receiverships in Australian corporate history.  It involved the rationalisation, restructuring and sale of 262 of the original 1,045 ABC childcare centres, and extensive cross-border issues. Minter Ellison teams across Australia and Minter Ellison Rudd Watts in New Zealand worked on this landmark project.

This project was judged Insolvency and Restructuring Deal of the Year at the ALB Australasian Law Awards 2010.

Minter Ellison advised Anchorage Advisers LLC on the AS$2.1 billion debt for equity swap and recapitalisation of Alinta Energy. Anchorage is part of a consortium led by TPG Capital and also including Oaktree Capital Management who will manage the investment on behalf of all equity holders.

This deal won Insolvency Deal of the Year at the ALB Australasian Law Awards 2011.

One of New Zealand’s headline deals, the two-phase restructuring of Fisher & Paykel Appliances Group also included an equity raising of NZ$189m, conducted against the backdrop of a constrained international credit market. Minter Ellison Rudd Watts advised the bank syndicate on both phases of the restructuring and the equity raising, providing banking, corporate, insolvency, property and intellectual property related advice.

The deal won New Zealand Deal of the Year at the ALB Australasian Law Awards 2009.

The innovative financing structure devised for Energy Infrastructure Trust's (EIT) acquisition of the Hallett 2 wind farm from AGL Energy created a win-win result for all stakeholders and won CFO Magazine's Project Finance Deal of the Year award in 2009.