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Robert Josephs Director

Contact: T +61 3 8681 4417 M +61 409 931 880 E robert.josephs@ clarendonlawyers.com.au

Robert has considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. In addition to Robert’s experience in m&a and private equity, Robert has extensive experience in joint venture arrangements, debt and equity raises, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate restructures, corporate governance and other general commercial contracting matters.

Since January 2008, Robert has worked in the M&A/corporate teams at Clarendon Lawyers where he has been responsible for leading a significant number of M&A and other corporate transactions which led to his appointment as a Director of Clarendon Lawyers on 1 January 2014.

Examples of some transactions that Robert has advised on include:

Private Equity • advising Healthcare Australia on its disposal to Crescent Capital

private equity; • advising Healthcare Australia on multiple transactions, including its

purchase of Wellness & Lifestyle Group, Medic Oncall, Positive Rehab, Employ-ease vocation and Randstad’s “care” recruitment business;

• advising SunDoctors (a portfolio business of Crescent Capital) on its roll-up of various skin-cancer clinics;

• advising Advent Partners private equity group on its investment into Tribe Brewing and other bolt on acquisitions and capital raises, including its acquisition of Mornington Peninsula Brewery;

• advising Junior Adventures Group (backed by Quadrant and Advent private equity) on various transaction, including its acquisitions of Helping Hands Network and the Sherpa Kids world-wide franchise network;

• advising Sterling Talent Solutions (sponsored by Goldman Sachs private equity), on its separate acquisitions of RISQ Group and National Crime Check;

• acting for the majority stakeholders of the Purebaby clothing chain to acquire remaining minority interests and a proposed private equity sale;

Founder-related • advising on the sale of MSC Mobility to Telstra Corporation Ltd; • advising the founders of BluePod coffee to Lavazza; • advising the founders of Halcyon Knights recruitment to ASX listed

People Infrastructure Ltd; • advising the founders of Fabtronics on its sale to Fluidra Group, listed

on the Bolsa de Madrid;

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• acting for Luxury Escapes and its founders on the acquisition of the Spreets website business from Yahoo!7;

• acting for the founders in the sale of the ATAP and ABS brakes national franchise networks to Metcash Limited;

• advising the founders of Epicon IT Solutions on a restructure and subsequent acquisition of Service Now;

Corporate / Other • advising MOTUS (listed on the JSE) on its acquisition of multiple car

dealerships; • advising on the sale of Australian Air Express and Star Track Express

to Qantas and Australia Post, respectively; • advising Strides Arcolab on its acquisition of Aspen Pharmaceuticals’

Australian generic drugs and over-the-counter business; • acting for kikki.K on its share buy-back from ANZ Private Equity,

corporate re-organisation and subsequent investment by private investors;

• advising the Kangaroos AFL Football Club and facilitating its conversion from a company limited by shares and guarantee to a company limited by guarantee only; and

• acting for McGuire Media and Dolbey Holdings in the sale of Visual Entertainment Group to Regency Media.

Robert graduated from Monash University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce, with a major in Economics.