News Articles for Bellanhouse Lawyers

Corporate lawyers Bryn Hardcastle and Scott Gibson built their reputations at boutique firms but have taken different paths.

Sydney-based law firm Hamilton Locke has entered the Western Australian market with a bang after recruiting four corporate finance partners from HWL Ebsworth Lawyers.

For the second year running, Macquarie Capital and Canaccord Genuity have topped Business News' league table for capital raisings.

Three Western Australian companies led by experienced mining executives are hoping to defy the slump in new stock market listings by launching initial public offerings over the past week.

HWL Ebsworth Lawyers is set to become the sixth largest law firm in Western Australia after striking a deal to acquire boutique Perth firm Bellanhouse Lawyers.

NTM Gold is set to raise up to $3.9 million, while Encounter Resources has raised $1.4 million, as the two juniors seek to advance their exploration projects.

Mont Royal Resources has become just the second Western Australian exploration company to list on the ASX this year, with the help of high-profile directors and ‘family office' investors.

A flurry of hostile takeover deals has provided a boost for corporate lawyers, with an expectation there are more on the way.

China-based Chengtun Mining has launched an all-cash bid to buy Nzuri Copper at 37 cents per share.

SPECIAL REPORT: The information listed explorers disseminate via traditional news outlets and social media is a growing focus of regulators.

SPECIAL REPORT: Corporate finance dealmakers in Perth worked on just more than 800 transactions last year worth $51 billion.

Local gold producers Silver Lake Resources and Doray Minerals have announced a merger to create a mid-tier company to be led by Silver Lake managing director Luke Tonkin.

Vanadium-focused QEM, which features experienced mining executive Daniel Harris on its board, began trading on the ASX today after completing a $5 million initial public offering.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA companies participated in 175 corporate finance transactions worth $7.6 billion in the September quarter, with one of the most complex and innovative being the recapitalisation of Eastern Goldfields.

Paladin Energy has announced plans to move to full ownership of fellow Perth-based uranium company Summit Resources, in a scrip deal worth around $7.8 million.

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian companies were involved in 235 corporate finance deals worth $6.9 billion in the June quarter, with new advisory firms playing an increasing role, research by Business News has found.

There has been a big increase this year in the number of ASX-listed companies, primarily junior explorers in WA, forced to retract announcements.

Shares in West Perth-based Raiden Resources (previously SubZero Group) enjoyed strong gains today after they started trading on the ASX, following a two-year restructuring of the company and acquisition of a copper-gold project in Serbia.

After selling its Southern Cross gold operation last year, Chinese-owned Hanking Gold Mining has made a takeover proposal for Primary Gold worth $37.5 million.

SPECIAL REPORT: There have been some big moves among corporate finance dealmakers in Perth, who worked on more than 850 transactions worth nearly $25 billion in 2017.

New Century Resources has raised $52.9 million to restart the Century Zinc Mine in Queensland, initially by reprocessing the tailings.

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian businesses participated in nearly 200 corporate finance transactions in the September quarter collectively worth $4.8 billion, research by Business News has found.

New Century Resources has enjoyed fruitful gains on its first day of trading on the ASX after completing a reverse takeover of Perth-based Attila Resources.

Gold-focused Calidus Resources has begun trading on the ASX after raising $7.8 million from investors and completing a reverse takeover of biotech company Pharmanet Group.

Change of guard at ATCO

Property-focused software company Servtech Global Holdings has wrapped up its first day of trading on the ASX, after completing a $6 million initial public offering.

SPECIAL REPORT: There was a big rise in the number and value of completed capital raisings in WA last year, according to data compiled in the BNiQ Search Engine.

The Australian Securities Exchange has delayed the introduction of tougher listing requirements by three months, after stockbrokers and corporate advisers expressed concern about the changes.

Fifteen local broking, legal and advisory firms have teamed up to put forward their concerns with the ASX's proposed changes to its listing requirements, and to advocate three particular amendments.

IMX Resources spin-off Graphex Mining has enjoyed a strong ASX debut, with its shares trading 80 per cent higher than its initial public offer raising price.

Local explorer IMX Resources is back on track to spin-off its graphite portfolio into a new ASX-listed entity, after addressing concerns raised by the corporate watchdog.

Perth-based wearable technology company Nuheara has enjoyed a bright start to trading on the ASX, with investors in its $3.5 million capital raising sitting on big gains today.

SPECIAL REPORT: Livestock exporter Wellard has had a rocky start to life as a listed company after completing Western Australia's second-largest capital raising of 2015, and the state's sixth-largest initial public offerings of all time. Wellard's $299 million IPO was one of the few high points of 2015, when a lack of mining deals led a sharp slide in overall capital raising activity.

MSM Corporation International and Department 13 International both debuted on the ASX today, after completing their respective reverse takeovers and backdoor listings.

Perth-based app services company Global Agenda Technologies is seeking an ASX listing through a reverse takeover of Marion Energy.

Millennium Minerals has kicked off a $21 million capital raising to pay off its debt and fund an ‘aggressive' exploration campaign at its Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara.