Amber Stanton’s practice focuses on corporate law and corporate governance, particularly issues regarding the Corporations Act and ASX Listing Rules, as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, joint ventures, IPOs and secondary capital raisings. An experienced M&A lawyer, she advises corporations on public and private transactions including structuring, drafting of documents and negotiations.

Amber’s IPO experience includes acting for the award-winning IPOs of Mungana Goldmines Ltd and Northern Iron Limited.

She also has completed numerous secondary and hybrid capital raisings including accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offers for Northern Iron Limited and Kagara Limited, each raising around AU$169 million, as well as Great Southern Limited’s TREES, TREES2 and TREES3 capital raisings.

Amber is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and is also a member of the AICD Director Pipeline Project.

In 2011, Amber was the Western Australia regional winner in the private sector and corporate category of the prestigious Telstra Business Women’s Awards, which celebrate the accomplishments of businesswomen across Australia.

Representative Experience

• Acting for Mungana Goldmines Ltd (a subsidiary of Kagara Ltd) in relation to its IPO to raise up to AU$76 million. Our involvement included the negotiation and preparation of the gold rights agreement between Kagara Ltd and Mungana Pty Ltd (together Kagara) and Mungana Goldmines Ltd pursuant to which Mungana Goldmines Ltd acquired rights to Kagara’s gold assets.
• Acting for Northern Iron Limited in relation to its IPO to raise up to AU$139.8 million to fund exploration, expansion and redevelopment.
• Representing Mitsui Iron Ore Corporation Pty Ltd in relation to the JFE Western 4 joint venture (JW4 JV) which is a joint venture between Mitsui’s existing Yandi joint venture partners, BHP Billiton Minerals Pty Ltd and ITOCHU Minerals & Energy of Australia Pty Ltd, and JFE Steel Australia (YD) Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of major steel mill JFE Steel Corporation in Japan. The JW4 JV was BHP Billiton’s first iron ore joint venture with a Japan-based steelmaker and secured long-term sales contracts from BHP’s suite of products worth approximately US$4.3 billion. The transaction was unique in that it involved the joint technical development and commercialisation of 169 million tonnes of Lower Channel Iron Deposit (LCID) pisolite iron ore at the Yandi mine, which had not previously been used in the steel-making process.
• Acting for Wheelara (Pilbara) Iron Ore in a joint venture between BHP Billiton, Itochu, Mitsui and four major Chinese steel mills (Magang, Shagang, Wugan and Tanggang). This involved sales of AU$11.2 billion.
• Acting for Onsite Rental Group in the AU$70 million acquisition of Statewide Equipment Hire, a company specializing in supplying equipment to the mining, construction and industrial sectors.
• Acting for Cristal Global (National Titanium Dioxide Company Limited), a Saudi Arabia-based titanium dioxide company, in its AU$1.3 billion acquisition of the Millennium Inorganic Chemicals Group, Lyondell’s titanium dioxide business, carrying out due diligence investigations on the operations in Australia.
• Acting for Midwest Corporation Limited in defending the AU$1.4 billion hostile off-market takeover bid by Sinosteel Corporation. This was the first time that a China-based, state-backed group had attempted to gain control of an Australia-based resources company via a hostile takeover. Sinosteel targeted Midwest to gain control of the company’s iron ore resources. We facilitated Midwest’s defence of Sinosteel’s AU$5.60 per share offer and simultaneously represented Midwest in merger talks with Murchison Metals Limited, which had previously attempted to win control of Midwest in 2007 by way of a takeover bid. Sinosteel ultimately increased its bid to AU$6.38 per share and now holds a voting interest in Midwest of more than 50 percent.
• Acting for Kagara Ltd in relation to its accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer which raised approximately AU$169 million and its strategic alliance with Guangdong Foreign Trade Group.
• Acting for Lachlan Star in relation to a binding share sale agreement to acquire 100 percent of DMC Newco Pty Ltd. DMC Newco Pty Ltd owned 100 percent of two Chile-based companies, Compañía Minera Dayton (CMD) and Dayton Chile Exploraciones Mineras Limitada (DCEM). CMD and DCEM collectively owned a 100-percent interest in the CMD gold mine project located in Andacollo, which is approximately 350 km north of Santiago, Chile.
• Advising Canadian Helicopters Group on purchasing New Zealand’s largest helicopter operator, Helicopters New Zealand (HNZ), from in-receivership South Canterbury Finance for AU$160 million including conducting due diligence on HNZ’s operations in Australia and assisting with the completion of the transaction.