Do it again, page-30

ADO has one of the saddest threads on HC. Anyone who dares mention anything objective as a balance to the clapper crowd is immediately shut down by the dreaded 'report post'. There are NO alternative views or opinions permitted! Worst part is many people have put significant amounts into the CR's based on all the positive rhetoric (speculation).

Let's hope Ewan can get an outcome for the reason he was hired and where his specialty lies..................................

Key transactions on which Ewen has advised in recent years include:

• Foster's Group – response to SABMiller's takeover proposal.
• Leighton Holdings – $750 million capital raising and in response to ACS bid for its major shareholder Hochtief AG.
• St.George Bank – merger with Westpac Banking Corporation.
• MBF – demutualisation and merger into BUPA.
• Westpac – One ADI Project.
• Macquarie Airports – internalisation of management and acquisition from Macquarie Capital.
• Rio Tinto – response to BHP's US$192 billion takeover bid, the second-largest takeover bid of all time and the first ever takeover involving two Australian-UK dual-listed companies.
• Wesfarmers – $20 billion acquisition of Coles Group, the largest takeover in Australian corporate history.
• Capital raisings in 2008/09 by Rio Tinto, Wesfarmers, GPT and OneSteel.
• CEMEX – $2 billion sale of its Australian operations to Holcim, after having advised CEMEX on its US$14.25 billion bid for Rinker Group, which is the largest cash offer in Australian corporate history.
• QANTAS – responding to the bid made by a private equity consortium.
• OneSteel – acquisition of Smorgon Steel.