Damien Devnarain

Senior Associate

Melbourne, Australia

Damien is a corporate lawyer specialising in public and private mergers and acquisitions.

Damien advises corporate and private equity clients on a range of corporate transactions, including takeovers, schemes of arrangement, negotiated acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements.

He has significant experience in public and private transactions across a range of industries. Damien has also completed a secondment with one of Australia’s big four banks.

Background

Damien holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. He was admitted to practice in Victoria in December 2019.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

Chemist Warehouse on its merger with Sigma Healthcare by way of scheme of arrangement
Compass Education on its sale to EQT Partners
Quadrant Private Equity on its investment in Evolution Medical
Paragon Care on its acquisition of CH2
Advent Partners on various investments, including in RMS Cloud, Mysite and Medtech Global
Australian Unity on its acquisition of Insignia Financial’s investment bond business
EQT Partners on its acquisition of the Icon Cancer Group
Tabcorp on the demerger of The Lottery Corporation
Australian Unity on its response to the unsolicited trust scheme proposed by NorthWest in respect of the Healthcare Property Trust
Allianz on the acquisition of Westpac’s general insurance business
NAB on the sale of its broker aggregation business to Loan Market
Optal and eNett on the sale of its payments services business to WEX