Patricia Paton
Patricia Paton

Patricia Paton

Partner

Sydney

+61 2 9258 5989 | +61 412 328 670
patricia.paton@ashurstperkins.com

Introduction

Patricia is an experienced corporate and capital markets partner who advises on a wide range of corporate and capital markets transactions.

Patricia Paton brings extensive experience to advising on a wide range of fundraising and other corporate transactions.

Patricia's experience includes advising issuers, investment banks, underwriters and managers across the full ambit of corporate and capital market transactions in both the listed and unlisted space: pre-IPO raisings; initial public offerings; mergers and acquisitions; issuances of hybrid securities; convertible note offers; accelerated and traditional entitlement offers; placements; share purchase plans; dividend reinvestment plans; and executive and employee incentive arrangements.

Complementing this is Patricia's experience advising boards and management of public companies on corporations law and corporate governance, including directors' duties and continuous disclosure.

  • Unified Capital Partners | 2026 | Advised lead manager, bookrunner and underwriter UCPs on SPC Global's $100 million institutional placement and renounceable entitlement offer.
  • Elevra | 2026 | Advised Elevra on its $441 million institutional placement, SPP and issue of convertible notes.
  • Bapcor | 2026 | Advised Bapcor on its $200 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer.
  • Vulcan Energy Resources Limited | 2025 | Advised Vulcan Energy Resources on its $1.08 billion placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer.
  • Washington H. Soul Pattinson | 2025 | Advised Washington H. Soul Pattinson on its placement to raise $770 million and associated UBS conditional forward share purchase and concurrent repurchase of approximately $435 million of the outstanding $450 million Senior Unsecured Convertible Note.
  • Morgan Stanley Australia Securities & UBS Securities Australia | 2024 | Advised joint lead managers, bookrunners and underwriters Morgan Stanley and UBS on NextDC’s $550 million institutional placement and $200 million SPP.
  • Ansell Limited | 2024 | Advised Ansell on its $465m institutional placement and SPP to fund the acquisition of Kimberly-Clark's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) business.
  • Karoon Energy Limited | 2023 | Advised Karoon Energy on its $480 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer undertaken to fund the acquisition of the Who Dat and Dome Patrol oil fields in the US Gulf of Mexico.
  • Primewest Group | 2019 & 2021 | Advised Primewest Group on its $350 million IPO and ASX listing, corporate and fund restructure and stapling and its subsequent $600 million takeover by Centuria Capital.

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