James’s expertise includes:

• Private M&A
• Public M&A
• Warranty & Indemnity Insurance (W&I)
• Joint Ventures
• Corporate Reconstructions
• Commercial Contracting
• Corporate Governance

• Acted for Link, Commonwealth Bank and Morgan Stanley in respect of their AUD1.6 billion acquisition of PEXA from various State Governments and financial institutions.
• Acted for Discovery Communications’ in its attempted acquisition of Network Ten in joint venture with Foxtel.
• Acted for Webjet in its AUD332 million acquisition of JacTravel, a Europe based wholesaler of hotel rooms and Group tours and its AUD240 million acquisition of Destinations of the World, a B2B accommodation wholesale platform based in Dubai.
• Acted for Liberty/Ironshore, AIG, TMHCC, Berkley and Fusion in respect of the provision of Warranty & Indemnity Insurance on well over one hundred Australian private M&A transactions.
• Acted for Accel-KKR’s acquisition of Agentbox, the No.1 real estate CRM solution in Australia.
• Acted in respect of the AUD830 million sale of the Masters Hardware business to Home Consortium.
• Acted for KKR in respect of its AUD8.2 billion joint venture with Varde, Deutsche Bank in respect of GE Money Australia.
• Acted for Freedom Foods in negotiating several farming joint ventures.
• Acted for Oath (formerly Yahoo) in the restructuring of its huffingtonpost.com.au joint venture with Fairfax Media.
• Acted in respect of the sale of the payments technology company, Ezidebit, to Global Payments Inc.

• Recommended Lawyer, Corporate and M&A, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.