Bio

Wendy Rae is a leading M&A specialist with expertise advising global and domestic funds on their participation in government asset sales, competitive bid processes and public M&A transactions. Her experience spans multiple sectors with infrastructure and energy being a particular focus. Wendy also has extensive experience advising global pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other foreign investors in relation to their investments in Australia. Her substantial experience navigating Australia's complex foreign investment laws, and her position as Chair of the Foreign Investment Committee of the Business Section of the Law Council of Australia, make her an integral part of any deal team. Wendy's transactional and FIRB experience in relation to critical infrastructure assets, data, critical minerals, agribusinesses and other sensitive sectors provides Wendy with unique insights into national interest sensitivities in respect of those transactions (including the approach of Defence and other national security agencies) and the suite of conditions that FIRB ordinarily seeks to impose to address these concerns.