Ratha Nabanidham
Partner
Brisbane
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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Ratha has 20 years' experience as a trusted adviser on M&A and corporate transactions, with deep experience across the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors and Japanese inbound investment into Australia. She is recognized for delivering clear, practical and commercially focused advice.
Ratha Nabanidham is a Partner and leads our Brisbane corporate practice.
She advises leading corporates, investors and boards on complex public and private M&A, joint ventures, restructures, capital raisings, consortium and shareholders' agreements, and governance matters. She is a trusted adviser on key regulatory and governance issues, including Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules and FIRB regime.
Widely regarding for her commercial judgement and deal leadership, Ratha is regularly called upon to navigate complexity, manage risk and drive successful outcomes on business-critical transactions.
- Harmony Gold | Lead partner | Advised on the US$1 billion acquisition by scheme of arrangement of MAC Copper Limited (dual listed on the ASX and NYSE), the owner of the CSA copper mine in Cobar, New South Wales.
- CS Energy | Lead partner | Advised on the acquisition of a 50% interest in the Boulder Creek Wind Farm from Aula Energy and the establishment of joint venture arrangements in relation to the project.
- Idemitsu | Lead partner | Advised on multiple critical minerals investments, including investments in Vecco Group (which owns the Debella vanadium mine), Critical Minerals Group (which owns the Lindfield vanadium project) and Graphinex (which owns the Esmeralda graphite project).
- Mitsubishi Corporations | Lead partner | Advised on the divestment of its interests in Boyne Smelters and Gladstone Power Station to Rio Tinto and Mayfair, respectively.
- Mitsubishi Development | Lead partner | Advised on the sale of its 50% interest in the Daunia and Blackwater metallurgical coal mines in the Bowen Basin in Queensland to Whitehaven Coal.
- Mitsubishi Development | Lead partner | Advised on the acquisition of a 30% interest in the Aurukun Bauxite Project from Glencore, offtake arrangements and the formation of a joint venture with Glencore to continue to development the project.
- Cubico Sustainable Investments | Lead partner (equity workstream) | Advised on the equity work stream for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the Wambo Wind Farm including the sell down of a 50% interest in each stage of the project to Stanwell Corporation and the establishment of joint venture arrangements in respect of each stage.
- Volvo Group Australia | Lead partner | Advised on its acquisition of Truck Centre (WA) Pty Ltd, which provides new and used truck sales, parts and workshop solutions across Western Australia for AB Volvo branded trucks and parts.
- Tyson Foods, Inc | Lead partner | Advised on the sale of its Australian beef patty manufacturing business to Kilcoy.
- Dura-Line Holdings, Inc | Lead partner | Advised on its acquisition of 100% of the shares in Biarri Networks Pty Ltd, a fiber optic network design and services company.
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