Bio

Vijay Cugati is a senior M&A partner seen by both clients and peers as one of Australia's leading M&A lawyers. Reflecting his volume of significant deals year on year, he is consistently recognised in leading publications including Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal500, Best Lawyers: M&A and Corporate Law, Chambers Global, IFLR1000 and Who's Who Legal. Known for his strategic legal leadership and commercial insights, Vijay is regularly called upon to guide the Boards and senior management of Australia's largest companies on signifcant and strategic M&A transactions. Vijay's practice is renowned for its diversity, comprising high-profile public takeovers and schemes of arrangement, carve-out transactions, private acquisitions and disposals (including competitive sales processes), distressed M&A, solvent reconstructions and restructurings. He offers commercially focused, pragmatic guidance on our clients' most important deals and corporate governance issues. He also advises clients on ASX and Corporations Act queries, and regularly deals with regulators relevant to implementing transactions including the Takeovers Panel, ASIC, FIRB and the ASX. Vijay is the Head of the M&A and Capital Markets team and is Co-Head of the Corporate Practice. He has previously been Head of our US Practice Desk and was a founding member of the Allens Inclusion and Diversity Council and the firm's Clients & Pursuits Committee. Vijay is a member of the Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Corporations Committee of the Law Council and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Property Council of Australia. For over 20 years, Vijay has advised on a variety of complex and innovative transactions across industry sectors, including during his time with Slaughter and May, 2005-2009. His direct experience on recent strategic transactions in the Australian market means that he is across current market-trends and practice.