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Herbert Smith Freehills’ reputation as the pre-eminent law firm for mergers and acquisitions across Asia Pacific has been reinforced, with the firm topping three of the region’s key M&A legal advisor league tables for 2018.
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“2018 was a very healthy year for Australian M&A with substantial activity across a variety of different sectors including financial services, healthcare, energy & resources and infrastructure,” commented Australian Corporate partner Matthew FitzGerald.
“We are expecting 2019 to offer more of the same with heightened M&A activity expected from private equity funds, infrastructure funds and superannuation funds executing direct investments despite some international economic volatility.”
"2018 was a strong year for M&A in Asia," said Asia Head of Corporate Lewis McDonald. "Despite the US/China trade war tensions and market volatility experienced in the second half of the year, activity levels were high. It was a record year for Japan outbound, and we also saw the return of mega deals to the market."
"Asian companies and buyers are experienced at navigating volatile marketplaces so, despite ongoing uncertainty, we expect buyers and sellers to continue to be highly active in 2019," said Lewis.
"Liquidity remains high among Asian corporates and private equity funds and we expect that they will compete hard for quality assets and high returns across global sectors and markets."
Herbert Smith Freehills advised clients on a host of complex and strategic M&A transactions in 2018, including:
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