People
Simone Lowes
Biography
Simone specialises in private M&A, with a focus on private equity transactions.
She advises PE and other financial sponsor clients as well as companies on a broad range of complex and high-value private M&A transactions, including domestic and cross-border transactions, carve outs, joint ventures, co-investments and distressed acquisitions and disposals, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. She works across various sectors, including infrastructure, renewable energy and healthcare.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Complex commercial transactions
- Joint ventures
- Outsourcing
- Private equity
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
Sectors
- Energy
- Banks
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Real estate
- Consumer and retail
- Technology
- Private equity
- Communications media and entertainment
Selected experience
- Advising a US headquartered private equity fund on several acquisitions.
- Alinta Energy on the sale of its assets in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to APA Group.
- Crescent Capital Partners the acquisition of a 75% stake in PRP Diagnostic Imaging and the subsequent sale of PRP Diagnostic Imaging to IFM Investors.
- A foreign pension fund on its upstream minority investment in AirTrunk.
- Ardian Private Equity on the sale of Study Group's Australian and New Zealand business to Navitas.
Education
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Wollongong, 2007
Admissions
- Admitted as a solicitor, New South Wales, Australia, 2008