Deborah Chew Phone +61 3 9603 3550 Fax +61 3 9670 9632 Email deborah.chew@hallandwilcox.com.au     Partner  Head of Corporate & Commercial  Current practice Deborah has extensive experience across a broad range of commercial transactions including: corporate and commercial transactions, including private mergers and acquisitions and trade sales and equity investments; private equity and venture capital transactions including management buy-outs; shareholders and joint venture arrangements; public and private issuances of shares and debt securities; ASX listed company and Corporations Act advice including, in respect of, continuous disclosure obligations, related party transactions, corporate governance and directors’ duties; commercialisation structuring and corporate organisational restructuring; employee incentive plans and employment agreements; supply, distribution and freight haulage agreements; licence agreements; and  a wide variety of other contractual arrangements.  Clients and recent experience  Deborah has worked on and led many major transactions, including:  acting as local Australian counsel for Mylan Inc in its acquisition of Merck’s global generic pharmaceuticals business (including Alphapharm Pty Ltd); the current demerger by Admiralty Resources NL of its Rincon Lithium subsidiary; advising the management teams of three national retailers on their respective co-investments with private equity funds; the sale of the Red Rooster business by Coles; and the successful bid by Telecom New Zealand for the telecommunications outsourcing work of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.  Deborah’s major clients span a range of industries, with a particular focus on the IT and biotech industries, and vary in size from start-ups to Australian industry leaders.  Qualifications and personal affiliations Deborah has a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School (New York) and a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College (New York).  She joined Hall & Wilcox in 2005 as a partner. Deborah began her legal career in New York, where she practised corporate and commercial law for over 10 years (first with the San Francisco-based firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and then with the leading New York firm, Debevoise & Plimpton). In 1999, she relocated to Australia and joined Allens Arthur Robinson. Deborah was a member of Allens’ Corporate & Commercial Department (first as a senior associate and then as a partner) until 2004. Deborah is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Australian Venture Capital Association.