William Kunstler

Senior Associate

Melbourne

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

William advises clients in various industries on a range of corporate transactions, including takeovers, schemes of arrangement and negotiated acquisitions and disposals, as well as shareholder arrangements and restructures. He has significant experience in large-scale transactions, particularly demergers, and has completed secondments with a number of different clients, including most recently with one of Australia’s largest private equity funds.

William was recently recognised in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia for his work in both mergers and acquisitions law and private equity law.

Background

William holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Monash University. He was admitted to practice in Victoria in December 2016.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

Hotel Property Investments on its response to the hostile takeover bid by Charter Hall Retail REIT and Hostplus
Pact Group on its response to the takeover bid by Kin Group, a company controlled by Pact Group’s Chairman
McGrath on its acquisition by a consortium of Knight Frank and Bayleys by way of scheme of arrangement
Tabcorp on its A$10.5 billion demerger of its Lotteries & Keno business, The Lottery Corporation
BINGO Industries on its A$2.3 billion acquisition by MIRA by way of scheme of arrangement
Iluka Resources on its A$2.5 billion demerger of its royalties business, Deterra Royalties
Healthscope on its response to the approaches from the BGH-AusSuper Consortium and Brookﬁeld and the successful A$4.4 billion scheme of arrangement and simultaneous takeover bid by Brookﬁeld
Wesfarmers on its A$19 billion demerger of Coles
BGH Capital on its roll-up of various cyber security and cloud service providers through CyberCX
BGH Capital on its acquisition of Fusion5
Advent Partners on various investments, including in RMS Cloud, Medtech Global and Frosty Boy