DEBT MARKET DEAL OF THE YEAR

Kiwibank Issue of NZ $275million in subordinated notes

• Lead Firm: Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Craigs Investment Partners, Forsyth Barr, Jarden Securities

Mercury NZ Finance $200 million seven-year green bond offer

• Lead Firm: Chapman Tripp
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): ANZ, Bell Gully, BNZ, DNV GL

NZ $18.4 million refinancing of Electric Kiwi debt facilities

• Lead Firm: Simpson Grierson
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Bell Gully, BNZ

NZ $2 billion Warehouse Facilities to assist Shinsei Bank acquisition of UDC Finance Limited

• Lead Firms: Mayne Wetherell, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Antalis S.A., ANZ, Bank of New Zealand, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Dentons Kensington Swan – Trustee counsel, Royal Bank of Canada - Sydney Branch, UDC Finance, Westpac New Zealand

Scentre Group US $3 billion subordinated hybrid note issue

• Lead Firm: Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): A&O, K&L Gates, Linklaters Singapore, Sidley Austin

EQUITY MARKET DEAL OF THE YEAR

Auckland International Airport NZ$1.2b capital raise

• Lead Firms: Chapman Tripp, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Citi, Credit Suisse, Jarden, King & Wood Mallesons

Kathmandu Group NZ $207 million capital raise

• Lead Firms: Chapman Tripp, Russell McVeagh
• All other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Baker & McKenzie, Deloitte

My Food Bag IPO and NZ $342 million capital raise

• Lead Firm: Chapman Tripp, Russell McVeagh, Webb Henderson
• All other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Craigs Investment Partners, Forsyth Barr, Jarden, KPMG, Mills Oakley, PwC, Rimon Law

NZ $98 million block trade sell-down of shares in Pushpay

• Lead Firm: Harmos Horton Lusk, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Allen & Overy – Australia, Bell Gully, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Couch Harlowe Kovacevich, Craigs Investment Partners

Sky Network Television Limited NZ $157 million placement and non-renounceable accelerated rights entitlement offer

• Lead Firm: Chapman Tripp, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Baker & McKenzie, Deloitte, Forsyth Barr Group, Goldman Sachs New Zealand, Sidley Austin

PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR

Cardrona Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant NZ $16.5 million project financing

• Lead Firms: Anderson Lloyd, Buddle Findlay
• Oher Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): BNZ, Spencers Chartered Accountants

Transmission Gully public-private partnership NZ $1.25 billion project financing

• Lead Firm: Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Bell Gully, MinterEllisonRuddWatts

M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR

Discovery Inc. acquisition of MediaWorks TV Limited

• Lead Firms: DLA Piper, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): EY, KPMG, UBS

Fonterra NZ $592 million sale of China dairy farms

• Lead Firm: Russell McVeagh, Simpson Grierson
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Goldman Sachs, King & Wood Mallesons China, KPMG Hong Kong, PwC New Zealand, Tian Yuan China

Metlifecare Limited NZ$1.3 billion sale to Asia Pacific Villages Group Limited

• Lead Firms: Bell Gully, Chapman Tripp, Harmos Horton Lusk
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Calibre Partners (formerly KordaMentha), Colliers International, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Jarden, Jones Lang LaSalle, King & Wood Mallesons, Meredith Connell, NERA Economic Consulting, Russell McVeagh, Simmons Corporate Finance, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Stout Street Chambers

Resolution Life A$3 billion acquisition of AMP's wealth protection and mature life businesses

• Lead Firms: Bell Gully, Chapman Tripp
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Ashurst, Debevoise & Plimpton, King & Wood Mallesons, PwC

WEL Networks and Waipa Networks sale of stake in Ultrafast Fibre Holdings

• Lead Firms: Bell Gully, Russell McVeagh, Tompkins Wake
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Cameron Partners, Lowndes, Simpson Grierson

INSOLVENCY AND RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR

Claymark Group receivership

• Lead Firm: Chapman Tripp
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): BNZ, Brookfields, Russell McVeagh, Wells Fargo

Distressed sale of Smiths City Group for NZ $60 million in assumed debt and cash to Polar Capital LP

• Lead Firms: Chapman Tripp, Duncan Cotterill
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): ASB Bank, BCH (Burley Attwood Law), BDO Christchurch, Mayne Wetherell, PwC, Webb Henderson

Liquidation of Pacific Aerospace Limited assets

• Lead Firm: Tompkins Wake
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Bell Gully, Holland Beckett, Khov Jones, Quigg Partners

Restructuring, insolvency, and exit of Jucy Group

• Lead Firms: Duncan Cotterill, MinterEllisonRuddWatts,
• All other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): ASB Bank, Calibre Partners, Chapman Tripp, Lander & Rogers, Lowndes Jordan, Mayne Wetherell, Norton Rose, PwC, Simpson Grierson

Tahua Capital NZ $30 million purchase of Burger King New Zealand under receivership

• Lead Firms: Mayne Wetherell, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Bell Gully, Buddle Findlay, Calibre Partners, PwC

MID-MARKET DEAL OF THE YEAR

Abano Healthcare Group Limited NZ $136 million take-private transaction

• Lead Firms: Bell Gully, Harmos Horton Lusk
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): Calibre Partners, Cameron Partners, Ernst & Young, Jarden, King & Wood Mallesons, Mayne Wetherell, Matthews Law, Rothschild & Co, Simpson Grierson

Centuria Capital Group’s nz $175 million takeover of Augusta Capital Limited

• Lead Firms: Chapman Tripp, Harmos Horton Lusk
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): HWL Ebsworth, Mayne Wetherell

Freightways Limited NZ$117 million acquisition of Big Chill Distribution

• Lead Firms: Brown Partners Lawyers, Russell McVeagh
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): EY, Forsyth Barr, Keegan Alexander

Price Industries purchase of Holyoake New Zealand and Australian operations

• Lead Firms: Buddle Findlay, Webb Henderson
• Other Organisations that worked on the deal (Firms, Banks and Accountants): KHQ

The a2 Milk Company NZ $268 million investment in Mataura Valley Milk

• Lead Firms: Bell Gully, Simpson Grierson