Hal Lloyd is a partner in the Sydney office of Baker & McKenzie where he advises on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and distressed transactions. He focuses on acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring of distressed businesses, particularly involving private capital.

Practice Focus

Hal's practice includes advising on public company takeovers, private equity acquisitions and divestitures, distressed mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and securities matters.

Representative Legal Matters

• Advising on takeovers of significant ASX listed entities, including advising Corporate Express in connection with its $1 billion takeover by Staples, Inc., advising CNMC in its proposed acquisition of a majority of Lynas Corporation valued at more than $500 million and advising Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. in its proposed $500 million contested takeover of Vision Systems Limited.
• Advising the full range of stakeholders in distressed situations, including strategic or financial buyers of distressed assets or debt, receivers or administrators selling businesses and restructuring distressed businesses. We have acted for the Administrators of Griffin Coal in connection with several recapitalisation proposals and the sale of Griffin Power and for the Administrators of Hans Continental Smallgoods in a series of complex restructuring and divestiture transactions.
• Advising private equity sponsors and hedge funds on leveraged acquisitions and divestiture transactions, including advising Quadrant on its divestiture of Tower Software in a structured exit by takeover under Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act and Catalyst on its dual track divestiture of B&D Doors resulting in a sale to Alesco.
• Advising local and offshore distressed investment and opportunity funds on structured investments in Australian businesses and development projects, including advising Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity Fund on its first investment in a development project in Australia and advising Fortress, Goldman Sachs SSG and Noonday Asset Management as part of a consortium of funds acquiring the tantalum and lithium assets of Sons of Gwalia.
• Advising on significant, complex private mergers and acquisitions transactions on behalf of private and public buyers, including the sale by SP Telemedia of its NBN television assets to PBL Media and advising New Hope Corporation on the divestiture of its Adaro coal mine interests an related infrastructure assets to a consortium of private equity and private family investors in a $1 billion cross border leveraged buyout.

Admission

New South Wales~Australia (2002)
New York~United States (2001)
Victoria~Australia (1995)

Education

Melbourne University  (LL.M.) (2004)
Australian National University  (LL.B.) (1994)
Australian National University  (B.A.) (1991)