Scott Standen

Scott’s career spans approximately 30 years as a corporate lawyer.

Scott is regularly called on by clients to provide strategic corporate advice to boards of directors and to project manage merger and acquisition transactions and public equity markets transactions. He prides himself in providing technically accurate and commercially focused corporate advice for public, private and listed companies, boards of directors and corporate advisers.

Expertise

Scott’s expertise includes:

  • Public equity market transactions
  • Capital raisings (debt and equity)
  • M&A transactions
  • Joint venture and shareholder agreements
  • Corporate governance advice
  • Directors’ duties
  • General commercial transactions (procurement – goods and services; offtake arrangements; farm-in agreements).

Recent Matters

  • IPOs – Apiam Animal Health Limited; P2P Transport Limited; RightCrowd Limited; Polymetals Limited; Duke Exploration Limited; Felix Gold Limited; Far East Gold Limited
  • Various secondary equity raisings – placements; entitlement offers; security purchase plans
  • Various debt financings – US$205 syndicated debt facility; US$105m loan note facility; $45m loan note facility; $25m forward gold purchase facility
  • Acquisition of Dartbrook mine joint venture interest; joint venture agreement; project financing; marketing agreement; operational agreements
  • Acquisition of Mine 14 coal project
  • Acquisition of $200m truck fleet and related multi-year maintenance agreement
  • M&A transactions – rolls ups of veterinary and optometry business; sale of 60% interest in $70m SAS business to private equity; sale of enterprise software business to US private equity.