Sarah Hilton Associate
BSoSc (Curtin University), LLB (Murdoch University)
- Profile
- Experience
Sarah is an Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team.
She is dual-qualified in both New Zealand and Australia.
She has previously worked at a boutique law firm in New Zealand and a leading Australian law firm, where she focused on public and private mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.
She has broad corporate and commercial law expertise.
- Advising the shareholders of DEFEND, New Zealand’s leading cyber security firm, on their share sale to One New Zealand (formerly Vodafone New Zealand).
- Advising leading advertising agency, Thompson Spencer, on its merger with Reason.
- Advising ListAssist on its sale to Inside Real Estate, a US real estate technology company backed by private equity firm Lovell Minnick.
- Acting for Waitapu Group, the owner of advertising agency Stanley St, on the acquisition of PR agency Hustle & Bustle.
- Advising wealth management firm, Enva Financial, on the acquisition of Aurora Capital and Aurora Financial.
- Advising a cosmetic company on the acquisition of a skincare brand.
- Acting for accommodation and property management business The Urban Butler on its sale to Urban Rest.
- Acting on a number of major mining industry acquisitions and divestments.
- Acting on a number of initial public offerings, including backdoor listings.
- Advising lister issuers on listing rule compliance and governance.
Expertise
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Equity capital markets
- Capital raisings
- Shareholder arrangements
- Joint ventures and strategic partnerships
- Employee share schemes
- Restructurings
- Corporate governance
- Commercial contracts (including supply, distribution and manufacturing)
Get in touch
DDI
+64 9 217 1844
M
+64 21 501 175
E
sarah.hilton@chk.law