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Melanie Hemers

Special Counsel

Sydney

Melanie has over a decade of experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and equity capital markets transactions across various industries, but particularly in technology, healthcare and consumer goods.

Melanie has acted for a broad range of clients including founders, multinational corporates, ASX-listed entities and many of the most prominent venture capital and private equity funds. She regularly collaborates with leading global law firms to deliver seamless client support on cross-border transactions involving US-based and other overseas investors and acquirers.

Before joining Mills Oakley, Melanie worked in the M&A team at Johnson Winter Slattery, and in the corporate finance team at leading global law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

 

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  • +61 2 9132 6431

Expertise

Melanie’s expertise includes:

  • complex private M&A
  • cross-border transactions
  • venture capital
  • private equity and growth
  • capital markets
  • corporate advisory
  • ESOPs and convertible securities
  • commercial contracts.

Recent Matters

  • US-based investment firms Energy Impact Partners and Angeleno Group on their growth investment in Australian energy tech business, IND Technology
  • Energy Impact Partners on its investment in Australian drone technology business Infravision
  • Australian cybersecurity business Sekuro on its sale to Nasdaq-listed Insight Enterprises
  • Australian cloud software consultancy TMLabs on its sale to Indian-listed, multinational tech firm Coforge
  • various US and international venture capital funds, including Felicis Ventures, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, EQT, Unilever Ventures and Khosla Ventures on investments into Australian companies
  • Australian venture capital funds, OneVentures, MH Carnegie & Co and Brandon Capital Partners on various venture capital investments
  • Austrian pipe manufacturer Amiblu Holding GmbH on its acquisition of Australian pipe manufacturer RPC Pipe Systems
  • US private equity fund Gauge Capital on the acquisition of Loving Tan (Australian self-tanning products) and the Australian aspects of a bolt-on acquisition of Singapore beauty brand Coco & Eve
  • About Smiles (dental clinics) on a corporate restructure and sale to Australian private equity firm Genesis Capital
  • Cardiac Dimensions (US-based med tech company) on various venture capital funding rounds through to Series D
  • Splash (Australian AI music business) on various venture capital funding rounds led by Khosla Ventures and subsequently Amazon Alexa Fund and others
  • Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners on its proposed acquisition of a 50% stake in Australian smart metering business, Intellihub
  • Simplify Medical (having advised on its previous venture financing rounds) on its sale to US Nasdaq-listed medical device company, NuVasive, Inc.
  • Unilever Australia (as owner of brands such as Streets, Ben & Jerry’s, T2, Continental, Lipton), Technogym (premium fitness and wellness brand) and St Vincent de Paul on various commercial contracting and other corporate matters.