Tharani Dharmaraj

Tharani has worked on a variety of domestic and multijurisdictional corporate transactions in both the UK and Australia in over 12 years of practice, including, private and public M&A transactions, private equity acquisitions and disposals and corporate advisory matters.

Tharani is also a co-lead of the Pacific Islands Desk.

• Advising Metcash on the acquisition of a majority stake in Total Tools Holdings Pty Ltd, the franchisor to the largest tool retail network in Australia with 81 retail stores nationwide
• Advising Takeda in relation to the Australian aspects of the global integration of the Shire business into the Takeda business following the acquisition of Shire by Takeda in 2019
• Advising YUM! on the sale of over 100 company owned KFC outlets through a competitive tender process
• Advised MasterCard Inc. on the acquisition of Wamaja Ltd by way of scheme of arrangement and on the Australian aspects of the acquisition of Finicity
• Advised Suez on its divestment and separation of an Australian division to Cleanaway Limited for AUD 2.4 billion / AUD 501 million
• Advised Opmantek Ltd on off-market takeover by FirstWave Cloud Technology Ltd for Opmantek
• Advising Tetra Tech on the acquisition of engineering consulting firm NDY 
• Advising clients in renewables industry including BayWa, Neoen, Siemens Gamesa and Magnetar on corporate governance matters and the acquisition of wind and solar projects in Australia
• Advising MasterCard Inc. on the acquisition of Pinpoint Pty Ltd (provider of loyalty solutions) including the management of a multijurisdictional due diligence process 
• Advising FedEx on an internal global reorganisation in respect of the integration of the TNT business

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• Law Society of NSW - Member

• Hong Kong
• London