Clayton James
Clayton is a partner in the Herbert Smith Freehills Corporate team. He advises on private equity and venture capital transactions, public and private mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets deals.
In his role as Co-head of the Australian Venture Capital practice, Clayton works regularly with founders, portfolio companies and investors across the full investment lifecycle.
Background
In his role as Co-head of the Australian Venture Capital practice, Clayton works regularly with founders, portfolio companies and investors across the full investment lifecycle.
Clayton holds a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours and a Bachelor of Commerce with honours from the University of Sydney. He is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales.
Clayton is co-editor of Towns under Siege: Developments in Australian Takeovers and Schemes, a major book on Australian M&A.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- UGL/CIMIC on the acquisition of IAS Limited
- Liverpool Partners on the acquisition of Australian Beverage Corporation
- Liverpool Partners on the acquisition of Seven Miles Coffee
- CIMIC on the successful takeover of Divine Limited
- the merger of Paragon Care and Quantum HealthCare by way of scheme of arrangement
- IntelliHub (Pacific Equity Partners) on the auction and partial sell down to Brookfield Asset Management
- IntelliHub on the acquisition of GreenSync Limited
- take private acquisition of Mainstream by Apex (Genstar Capital) by way of scheme of arrangement
- SafetyCulture on the acquisition of SHEQSY
- Liverpool Partners on the acquisition of Padre Coffee
- Mr Yum on the acquisition of My Guest List
Clayton also advised on numerous VC capital raising, including Kasada, Truescope, Me& and Baymatob.
Sectors
Services
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