Australian rules for foreign financial service providers, 2018. 
 
Dexus on its acquisition of AMP’s $28bn real estate and domestic infrastructure business, comprising a platform of pooled funds and separately managed accounts.

Assisting a large institutional investor on its proposed investment into a US$500 million fund to hold interests in underlying liquefied natural gas assets. This involved undertaking due diligence on the underlying assets (which included a potential AU18 billion takeover bid) and fund documentation and side letter negotiations with the fund manager. 
 
An international investment bank structured globally as two separate regulated banks, on the merger of one Australian branch into another, as well as the simultaneous integration of a prime brokerage business acquired from another global financial institution. This involved providing advice regarding ETF market making, drafting applications for bespoke individual relief instruments, advising on complex aspects of securities lending and market making regulation by both ASIC and the ASX. 
 
A large foreign financial institution in respect of several of its investments in recent years – including a co-investment into an Australian renewable energy fund, promoted by Queensland Investment Corporation. The fund which targeted approximately 1,000 MW of large-scale renewable generation with a total expected investment of $2 -3 billion dollars, was established to finance investments in large scale renewable projects across Australia and is the largest scale fund with an underlying asset class of its type in Australia. 
 
Routinely advising, through our global network of foreign offices, foreign clients on a range of financial services regulatory issues including licensing, raising capital from Australian investors (including via IPO's, rights issues etc), disclosure issues, data privacy and cross-border movement of customer information.