Our Services
The Merger and Acquisition specialists at SWS Lawyers have all worked for national or international ‘top tier’ Merger and Acquisition practices in Australia or the United Kingdom. Over the past 15 years our people have been involved in significant private company transactions in engineering, bio-technology, mining and tourism sectors. Our lawyers have also worked on large ASX listed company merger and acquisition transactions and bring that experience to everything they do for their clients.
SWS Lawyers is based in regional NSW because our business owners choose to live in the Hunter Valley. However, we routinely undertake transactions in all East Coast capital cities, making use of our network of business partners and associates where appropriate. We also work with regional businesses and understand that transactions for SME businesses are typically ‘game changers’ for the shareholders and must be completed with technical precision and to a budget.
Our experience includes:
- Agriculture – Acting for private owners of a substantial cattle concern on the sale to Chinese investors.
- Housing Construction – Acting for one of the largest private home builders in Australia on a key ‘bolt on’ acquisition.
- Water Technology – Acting for a private equity backed water telemetry business on a series of acquisitions followed by an exit transaction by way of a sale to a large European public company.
- Mining Services – Advising as the Australian lawyers for the acquisition of US mining technology used in coal extraction in the US and Australian markets.
- Environmental Services – Acting on the acquisition of a series of diversified services businesses followed by a divestment and recapitalisation of the company with incoming private equity investment capital.
- IP / Manufacturing – Advising on the commercialisation of key IP rights before managing a divestment process and completing the sale of 100% of the shares in a safety product manufacturing business.
