Mills Oakley
Iain Laughland heads the Mills Oakley team from Sydney, although it also reaches across Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane, acting for clients across the spectrum of large, mid-market and small-cap issuers. With an emphasis on the technology and health sciences sectors, the team has notable experience in advising New Zealand-based companies on ASX listings. Lynda Reid has expertise in the financial services and healthcare sectors, acting for a number of listed investment companies.
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- 'The individuals have an extremely good understanding of the law, but are commercial in the way they communicate legal concepts.'
- 'This team is very agile and flexible - capable of acting as project manager and managing different service providers (including lawyers) across different countries to ensure everything is done properly and on time.'
- 'The team has the ability to understand our business from a unit economics perspective and also an operational one.'
- 'One particular partner I worked with is worth mentioning: Iain Laughland. I worked extensively with him and he was always keen to adapt to the issue at hand (whether in terms of billing, workflow or otherwise) and always had a strong business sense - it was very helpful to get his insights and opinions about other similar transactions and hear potential solutions he could come up with given his extensive background and knowledge.'
- 'Our key interaction is with Iain Laughland, who is very capable and knowledgeable in the areas Mills Oakley advise us on. This is largely in the corporate listed company space. Mills Oakley appear to be cost effective and capable which stands them apart from larger, and more well-known, legal firms.'
- 'Very proactive, responsive, collaborative, knowledgeable and reasonable when it comes to time and effort.'
- 'Availability is exceptional and the team is a good sounding board/advisor.'
Key clients
- Pacific Edge Limited
- Australian Pacific Coal Limited
- Li-S Energy Limited
- My Food Bag Limited
- Tissue Repair Limited
- BCAL Diagnostics Limited
- Pathify Holdings Inc.
- Aroa Biosurgery Limited
- Forbidden Foods Limited
- WAM Active Limited
- WAM Global Limited
- ELMO Software Limited
- Volpara Health Technologies Limited
- TASK Group Holdings Limited
- Payright Limited
- Metallica Minerals Limited
- Magnetite Mines Limited
Work highlights
- Acted for ASX-listed Australian Pacific Coal Limited on its A$100 million rights issue to support the re-commissioning of the Dartbrook coal mine in New South Wales.
- Acted for US-based ed-tech company Pathify Holdings Inc. on its IPO and proposed ASX listing of CHESS Depository Interests (CDIs).
- Acted as Australian legal counsel to TASK Group Holdings Limited on the migration of its primary listing from the NZX to the ASX.
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Iain Laughland