Rick Troiano

Rick’s practice centres on advising clients on takeovers, schemes of arrangement, private M&A transactions, IPOs, rights issues, placements and other corporate transactions.

Rick also advises clients on a diverse range of legal issues including transaction structuring, due diligence, directors' duties, market disclosure, insider trading, listing rule compliance and corporate governance matters.

Rick regularly acts for Australian clients in a wide range of sectors. Rick also has extensive experience in cross-border M&A, and regularly acts for international clients on their investments in Australia.

Rick previously worked as a lawyer at the Australian Takeovers Panel, the main forum for resolving takeover disputes in Australia. This has given him a solid understanding of the law and policy behind the regulation of takeovers and other control transactions in Australia.

Rick is also a member of the Corporations Committee (Law Council of Australia), a forum through which current legal issues affecting business are discussed and considered in the context of law reform in Australia.

Rick’s experience includes advising:

• Crayon Group Holding in its AUD 410 million acquisition of rhipe Limited
• Youfoodz Holdings on the AUD 125 million acquisition of it by HelloFresh SE
• Afterpay Group on its IPO and ASX listing and subsequent merger with Touchcorp
• MUTB on its AUD 4.1 billion acquisition of Colonial First State Global Asset Management from CBA
• OTPP on its participation in BGH Capital Consortium’s AUD 2.3 billion acquisition of Navitas Limited
• Hanesbrands on its AUD 1.1 billion acquisition of Pacific Brands Limited
• NorthWest Healthcare on its AUD 508 million takeover bid for Generation Healthcare REIT
• OTPP (a member of Abano Healthcare Group) on its AUD 200 million acquisition of 1300Smiles
• Youfoodz Holdings on its IPO and ASX listing

• Corporations Committee (Law Council of Australia)
• Governance Institute of Australia