Ms Sandy Mak > Corrs Chambers Westgarth > Sydney, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Corrs Chambers Westgarth Offices
Level 6 Brookfield Place Tower 2
123 St Georges Terrace
Perth WA 6000
Australia
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Ms Sandy Mak
Work Department
Capital Markets / Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions.
Position
Partner.
Career
Sandy is our head of corporate. She is a lawyer with few borders. Her career has focused on international corporate transactions, specialising in public and private mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions.
Sandy has spent a significant part of her career practising at a top magic circle firm in London and Hong Kong and at two global investment banks and has advised on numerous cross border transactions, including in India and China.
She has a strong background in regulated M&A, including schemes of arrangement, takeovers and dual-listed company structures. Sandy also advises on private M&A transactions, equity raisings, corporate restructures, buy-backs, ASIC and ASX regulatory work, foreign investment regulations and general corporate and commercial transactions.
https://www.corrs.com.au/people/sandy-mak
Memberships
Sydney University Law School Lecturer – Corporate and Securities Regulation (Takeovers and Schemes) Halsburys Laws of Australia – Takeovers and Acquisitions, Fundraising for Securities – Editor Corrs Chambers Westgarth Diversity Council Chair and Executive Leadership Team – Member.
Lawyer Rankings
Australia > Corporate and M&A
(Leading individuals)Fielding over 70 specialists across four national offices, the group at Corrs Chambers Westgarth handles public and private M&A, private equity and corporate governance on both a national and global level. The team attracts mandates from across the real estate, agribusiness, TMT and financial services sectors, and – with the additions of Tracey Greenaway and Anthony Lepere – has seen a further increase in activity in the energy and natural resources space. Sandy Mak heads the firm’s corporate and private equity team, assisting a wide range of local and international clients with foreign investments, equity raisings, buy-backs and restructurings. Also practising from the Sydney office are M&A and PE experts Riccardo Casali and Glen Sauer, who handle cross-border transactions, namely acquisitions, restructurings and divestments.
Australia > Capital markets
The national capital markets practice at Corrs Chambers Westgarth acts out of offices in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane (where the team also provides services to Papua New Guinea-based clients). Co-leading the equity capital markets team are Sandy Mak, who is also head of corporate, and Shabarika Ajitkumar in Sydney, and Oliver Carrick in Perth. The Perth office has particular expertise in acting for issuers and underwriters. Melbourne-based Brad Robinson leads both the debt capital markets and securitisation teams. The debt capital markets team advises a range of clients, including investors, sponsors, arrangers and trustees, while securitisation work includes prime and non-conforming residential mortgages, reverse mortgage and equity release products and insurance funding loans. Jo Dodd joined the Sydney office from King & Wood Mallesons in February 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Australia > Corporate and M&A
- Corporate and M&A Australia
- Capital markets Australia
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Competition and trade
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Infrastructure projects and construction
- Intellectual property
- IT and telecoms
- Labour and employment
- Natural resources (transactions and regulatory)
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Energy (transactions and regulatory)
- Environment and planning
- Fintech and financial services regulatory
- Labour and employment: workplace health and safety (WHS)
- Tax
- White-collar crime
- Insurance
- Media and entertainment
- Capital markets