Friedrich Kuepper

Senior Associate

Brisbane, Australia

Friedrich is a Senior Associate in our Corporate team, focusing on technology and telecommunications transactions.

Friedrich specialises in cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, private and venture capital, critical commercial transactions and corporate governance.

Friedrich also regularly advises clients on key operational matters including digital infrastructure (data centres, capacity arrangements and subsea and terrestrial cable systems) and emerging technology initiatives.

Background

Friedrich holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the Queensland University of Technology.

Friedrich is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

PsiQuantum on its partnership with the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to build the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer in Australia, through a A$940M financial package, comprised of equity, grants and loans
H.R.L Morrison & Co owned investment firm Infratil on its acquisition of a majority stake in network provider and interconnection firm Console Connect for $160 million
AustralianSuper in relation to its acquisition of a $2.5b minority stake in Vantage Data Centers EMEA
QIC on its Queensland Business Investment Fund and Enterprise Acceleration Fund investments into Gilmour Space Technology, Endua, Cartelux and others
Marubeni in connection with minority equity investments in various growth stage renewables and technology businesses, including Skeleton Technologies Group OU and Circle Gas Limited
GS Engineering in respect of a 12.5% equity investment in the $15.8b Spark NEL infrastructure project as a consortium participant.
GoldlinQ in relation to the $1.2b Gold Coast Light Rail infrastructure development project
Synechron in its acquisition of payment solutions provider Attra
H.R.L Morrison & Co in its purchase of the assets of renewable energy agribusiness Sundrop Farms