What they do
Sidley Austin is a global law firm whose M&A practice acts for large and small companies, private equity funds and other financial sponsors. Its capital markets practice represents issuers, underwriters and other financial intermediaries.
- Services
- M&A law, Capital markets law
- Specialties
- energy, life sciences, real estate, consumer products, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, technology, media, telecoms, financial services, insurance, metals and mining
- Kinds of deal
- cross-border transactions
- Deal size
- Recorded deals: median A$598m, from A$183m to A$3.3bn
- Clients
- Corporates, Private equity
From sidley.com, checked 7 Nov 2026: /en/services/ma, /en/services/capital-markets
Deals
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7 of 7 deals
| Advisers | ||||||||||
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| Sep 2026 | ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE | – | Telix Pharmaceuticals | Merger | Legal adviser to Telix Pharmaceuticals (acquirer) | Announced | 3,337.9 | Biotech and pharmaceuticals | Morgan Stanley (buy-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side)Centerview Partners (sell-side)Latham & Watkins (sell-side) | Telix Pharmaceuticals and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE merger |
| Apr 2026 | Safeway Concessions Platform | Macquarie Asset Management | VINCI Highways | Acquisition | Legal adviser to Macquarie Asset Management (seller) | Announced | – | Transport infrastructure | Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (sell-side) | VINCI Highways acquisition of Safeway Concessions Platform |
| Nov 2025 | Nativo | – | Life360 | Acquisition | Legal adviser to Life360 (acquirer) | Completed | 183.4 | Media, entertainment and online platforms | Stifel (buy-side)Perella Weinberg Partners (sell-side)Cooley (sell-side) | Life360 acquisition of Nativo |
| Aug 2025 | DBG Health | – | BDT & MSD Partners | Stake | Legal adviser to BDT & MSD Partners (acquirer) | Completed | 1,600.0 | Biotech and pharmaceuticals | Allens (buy-side)MinterEllison (sell-side) | BDT & MSD Partners stake in DBG Health |
| Jul 2025 | Life360 | – | – | Convertible | Legal adviser to the issuer | Completed | 511.0 | Software | DLA Piper (issuer) | Life360 equity raising |
| Jun 2025 | Virgin Australia | – | – | IPO | Legal adviser to the issuer | Listed | 685.0 | Transport and logistics | Gilbert + Tobin (issuer)Allens (lead manager)Goldman Sachs (lead manager)UBS (lead manager)Barrenjoey (lead manager)Reunion Capital Partners (issuer) | Virgin Australia IPO |
| Apr 2025 | Bigtincan Holdings | – | Vector Capital Management, L.P. | Scheme | Legal adviser to Vector Capital Management, L.P. (acquirer) | Completed | 183.0 | Software | Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)Lonergan Edwards & Associates (sell-side)Johnson Winter Slattery (buy-side) | Vector Capital Management, L.P. acquisition of Bigtincan Holdings |
Listed on their website
- Sidley Represents Savillex in Its Acquisition of Entegris’ Life Sciences Fluid Management Business 2026
- Sidley Represents Fortune Brands in Its Sale of Fiberon 2026
- Sidley Represents GE HealthCare in Its US$945 Million Acquisition of SOFIE Biosciences US$945 Million · 2026
- Sidley Represents Qualcomm in Its Acquisition of PickNik 2026
- Sidley Represents Five9 in Its US$325 Million Acquisition of Level AI US$325 Million · 2026
- Sidley Represents Lumexa Imaging in US$462.5 Million Initial Public Offering US$462.5 Million · 2025
Transactions the firm lists on its own website, checked 7 Nov 2026. Those FundComb has recorded link to the deal.
Activity
By announcement date; raisings and IPOs by their own date.
Sector of the business bought or funded.
Disclosed value in Australian dollars.
Most often across the table
- Gilbert + Tobin1 dealCompare
- Lonergan Edwards & Associates1 dealCompare
- MinterEllison
1 dealCompare - Perella Weinberg Partners
1 dealCompare - Cooley1 dealCompare
- Centerview Partners
1 dealCompare - Latham & Watkins
1 dealCompare
Firms advising the other side of the same deals.
Repeat clients
- Life3602 deals
People on these deals
- Alvin Wang 1 deal
- Andy Loo 1 deal
- Carla Teodoro 1 deal
- Kim Robertson 1 deal
- Kristina Kang 1 deal
- Mimma Barila 1 deal
- Nicholas Brown 1 deal
Offices and contact
Contact
- Website
- sidley.com ↗
- Enquiries
- Contact page ↗
- Company page ↗
From the firm's own website.
Offices
Australia
- Sydney Level 10, 7 Macquarie Place, NSW 2000 +61 2 8214 2200 Office page ↗
United States
- Chicago One South Dearborn, IL 60603 +1 312 853 7000 Office page ↗