Douglas Brown

Douglas is a Senior Associate in Lander & Rogers' corporate team based in Sydney. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and commercial law.

Experience

Douglas is a transactional lawyer with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. He is experienced in managing transactions from the preliminary and due diligence phase through to execution of binding agreements and completion. Douglas enjoys meeting business owners and developing an intricate understanding of their businesses and industries. He prides himself on providing commercial, practical and succinct advice to clients.

Douglas' areas of expertise include:

• mergers and acquisitions
• private equity and venture capital
• capital raisings
• corporate governance
• joint ventures
• establishment of business structures including trusts
• shareholder and unitholder agreements
• commercial contracts
• advice on applicable laws including the Corporations Act, Australian Consumer Law, Personal Property Securities Act, Privacy Act and Franchising Code.

Career highlights

Douglas' career highlights include advising and acting for:

• advising Straits Real Estate (SRE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Exchange-listed The Straits Company Limited, on the sale of a 19.9% stake in SRE’s Australian industrial portfolio to ASX-listed Cromwell Property Group, valued at AUD$470 million
• advising Altano, a German-headquartered international group of leading equine veterinary clinics, and its Swiss private equity sponsor, Ufenau Capital Partners, on the acquisition of Scone Equine Group, one of Australia's leading equine veterinary practices
• advising ADVFN, a UK-based global platform which provides real-time data on stocks, crypto, forex and commodities to retail investors, on its acquisition of the capital markets division of ASX-listed Gumtree
• advising leading family investment office, Wollemi Capital, on its consortium arrangements with the NBL to acquire a controlling interest in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL)
• advising the founders and shareholders of Smart Energy Group, a leading Australian solar technology company, on its sale to Japan-headquartered multinational appliance manufacturer, Rinnai
• advising the founders of Allied Grain Systems, an Australian supplier of grain handling and storage solutions, on the sale of the company to Mitchells Group, a global provider of bulk material handling equipment to the agriculture industry.