Tom Hoare

Tom works predominantly with Damien Hazard, one of Australia’s leading private equity and private M&A lawyers.

Tom advises a range of Australian and international clients on leveraged acquisitions, disposals, restructures, capital raisings, joint ventures, management equity and W&I insurance.

Tom is actively involved in managing some of the firm’s key private equity client relationships. Tom has also undertaken a secondment as legal counsel at Archer Capital, a leading Australian private equity firm. 

Prior to joining the firm, Tom worked for a number of years at the Macquarie Group.

Tom’s experience includes advising:

• The Growth Fund on its investments in:
  • Guest Group
  • Fitness Passport
  • CareTrac
  • M&J Chickens
  • Black Mount Spring Water
  • Quantum Radiology
  • My Pet Warehouse
  • Askin Performance Panels
  • Soar Aviation
• The Growth Fund on portfolio company matters including for Ekera Dental, Obex Medical, Best Friends Pets, CompassCorp, GoGet, Royans and PlanIt
• Mercury Capital on the sale of Australian Animal Hospitals to Vet Partners
• Mercury Capital on the sale of MessageMedia to Sinch
• Archer Capital on the sale of Brownes Dairy to Shanghai Ground Food Tech 
• Archer Capital on the sale of Craveable Brands to PAG Asia Capital
• Pacific Equity Partners and Blum Capital on its refinance and subsequent sale of Xtralis to Honeywell
• Pacific Equity Partners on its bid for Lion Dairy and Drinks
• Potentia Capital on its acquisition of Education Horizons Group by way of unlisted takeover bid
• Adamantem Capital on its acquisition of Zenitas Healthcare (with Liverpool Partners) by way of scheme of arrangement
• GenesisCare on its investment from KKR
• CIMIC on the sale of Leighton and Thiess Services and the creation of the Ventia joint venture with Apollo Global Management
• Ventia (and its shareholders CIMIC and Apollo) on the acquisition of Broadspectrum from Ferrovial
• Ventia (and its shareholders CIMIC and Apollo) on the sale of APP Corporation
• GreenMount Advisory on its investment from Ngāi Tahu Holdings
• SoftBank on portfolio company matters 
• Ansarada on its Series A capital raise
• SafetyCulture on its Series B capital raise
• GUD Holdings on its acquisition of ACAD from AMA Group
• OPW on its acquisition of Liquip
• Spark Infrastructure on its acquisition of Bomen Solar Farm from Renew Estate
• Ennismore on its joint venture with Accor
• Catalyst on the sale / IPO of Dusk

Background

Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Industrial Relations) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology Sydney.