Bio

Adam Laura is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Corporate Advisory group and also heads up the Investment Funds practice. Adam has worked with clients across a wide range of industries, advising on large scale equity capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions for funds and financial services institutions, listed and unlisted property trusts and other companies. Adam advises his clients on their fundraising, merger and acquisition activities, and their funds establishment and structuring work, and is ranked as one of Australia’s leading Corporate and Funds lawyers. He is also an expert in Australian financial services laws and financial product disclosure. Adam’s practice is unique in the Australian market as he presents a complete solution to his sponsor clients. He is fluent in the structuring of their investment vehicles, which allows him to bring that experience to bear in their acquisition and exit work. He has negotiated more than 50 M&A transactions, acted on more than 20 IPOs raising in excess of $10Bn, advised many listed company boards on a wide range of issues, and structured dozens of collective investment vehicles and management arrangements.