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CurrentRecent mattersEquity capital markets•National Australia Bank: $5.5 billion rights offer•Transurban: $2.34 billion rights offer and $400 million placement to fund acquisition of Queensland Motorways•IRESS: $206 million accelerated entitlement offer to fund acquisition of Avelo FS Holdings•ANZ: $1.5 billion subordinated retail notes issue, $1.12 billion capital notes issue and $1.6 billion capital notes 2 issue•Bank of Queensland: $300 million offer of convertible preference shares•Woolworths: $700m retail notes issue•AXA Asia Pacific: $890 million capital raising (placement, share purchase plan and top up offer)•Programmed Maintenance Services Ltd: $70 million accelerated entitlement offer•National Australia Bank: $3 billion placement and accompanying share purchase plan•Ruralco: $25 million placement•Templeton Global Growth Fund: $68 million placement and entitlement offer•Capital management: National Australia Bank on-market buy back programs and underwritten DRPs; Melbourne IT capital return•Affinity Health Limited: dual track initial public offering/trade sale to Ramsay (IPO team)•Virtus and Steadfast: initial public offerings•Employee equity plans: advising on structure and implementation of various global employee equity plans including National Australia Bank, Telstra, Myer, IOOF, Seek and IRESS.Takeovers, mergers by scheme and reconstructions•AXA Asia Pacific: on its acquisition by AMP and AXA SA (and the previous proposal by NAB and AXA SA)•IOOF: takeover of Plan B Holdings•Westfield Group: merger of Westfield Holdings, Westfield Trust and Westfield America Trust by scheme.
