Australian M&A and equity raisings
1,881 deals since January 2025, each with its advisers and sources · as at 8 Nov 2026 · Venture rounds
37 deals · A$23bndisclosed · Energy · Clear
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| Date | Target | Vendor | Acquirer | Type | Status | Value A$m | Sector | Advisers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Malabar Resources | – | New Hope Corporation | Scheme | Announced | 2,400.0 | Coal | BofA Securities (sell-side)Allens (sell-side)Jarden (buy-side)Pitt Capital Partners (buy-side)Johnson Winter Slattery (buy-side) |
| Oct 2026 | Tahmoor and Bargo Collieries | – | Golden Energy and Resources (GEAR) & M Resources | Acquisition | Completed | – | Coal | Grant Samuel (buy-side) |
| Oct 2026 | Browse LNG Project | – | Osaka Gas Australia | Stake | Completed | – | Oil and gas | Norton Rose Fulbright (buy-side) |
| Oct 2026 | Entities owning the Tin Hut Creek coal project and the Lolley No.1 underground metallurgical coal project | – | White Energy Company | Acquisition | Announced | – | Coal | Hamilton Locke (buy-side) |
| Sep 2026 | Moranbah South tenements | Exxaro Resources | Stanmore Resources | Asset sale | Announced | 149.1 | Coal | EY (buy-side)Palaris (buy-side) |
| Aug 2026 | Vitrinite | Vitrinite Group | Crossfield Energy | Acquisition | Completed | 220.0 | Coal | Hamilton Locke (sell-side) |
| Jul 2026 | Galilee Resources | Galilee Energy | Novus Energy Production Company | Acquisition | Announced | – | Oil and gas | Miro Capital (sell-side) |
| Jun 2026 | EG Group Australia Pty Ltd and EG AsiaPac Holdings Pty Ltd (together, EG Australia) | – | Ampol | Acquisition | Completed | 1,165.0 | Oil and gas | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Jun 2026 | Tahmoor Coal Group assets | Tahmoor Coal Pty Ltd and Bargo Collieries Pty Ltd (in liquidation) | Consortium | Asset sale | Completed | – | Coal | Gilbert + TobinAshurst Perkins Coie (sell-side) |
| Jun 2026 | Tahmoor Coal Group business and assets (Tahmoor Coal Mine) | Tahmoor Coal Pty Ltd and Bargo Collieries Pty Ltd (in liquidation) | M Resources | Asset sale | Completed | – | Coal | Ashurst Perkins Coie (sell-side) |
| May 2026 | Anglo American Australian steelmaking coal portfolio | Anglo American | Dhilmar | Acquisition | Announced | 5,388.2 | Coal | MinterEllison (sell-side)Latham & Watkins (sell-side) |
| May 2026 | MidOcean Energy | – | Idemitsu Kosan Co. | Stake | Announced | 695.2 | Oil and gas | MinterEllison (buy-side)Nishimura & Asahi (buy-side) |
| May 2026 | Jellinbah Group | Anglo American | – | Stake | Completed | 1,390.5 | Coal | MinterEllison (sell-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Kestrel Coal Group | EMR Capital Advisors | Yancoal Australia | Acquisition | Announced | 3,411.9 | Coal | UBS (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Freshfields (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Cue Energy Resources | Echelon Resources | Horizon Oil | Takeover | Announced | – | Oil and gas | Azure Capital (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)Mallesons (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Hartshead Resources | – | ACAM GP | Scheme | Completed | 40.0 | Oil and gas | Blackwall Legal (sell-side)Miles Thomas (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)Yaxley Tax Consulting (sell-side)S&F Investment Advisors (buy-side)Auctus Advisors (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Watson Farley & Williams (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Mahalo Gas Project (42.86% interest) | Santos QNT | Comet Ridge | Asset sale | Completed | 40.0 | Oil and gas | Taylor Collison (buy-side)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Northern Territory uranium assets | Alligator Energy | DevEx Resources | Asset sale | Announced | 7.5 | Uranium | Taylor Collison (sell-side) |
| Oct 2025 | Oobagooma Uranium Project | Elevate Uranium | Orpheus Uranium | Asset sale | Completed | 0.2 | Uranium | Discovery Capital Partners (sell-side) |
| Oct 2025 | Toro Energy | – | IsoEnergy | Scheme | Completed | 75.0 | Uranium | Canaccord Genuity (sell-side)Cardinals Lawyers and Consultants (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)MinVal (sell-side)SCP Resource Finance (buy-side)Cassels (buy-side)Hamilton Locke (buy-side)Paul, Weiss (buy-side) |
| Oct 2025 | Global Uranium and Enrichment | – | Snow Lake Resources | Scheme | Completed | 44.5 | Uranium | Garfinkle BidermanNauth LPCThomsons (sell-side)Canaccord Genuity (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)MinVal (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (buy-side)Sternship Advisers (buy-side) |
| Sep 2025 | Falcon Oil & Gas | – | Tamboran Resources | Acquisition | Completed | 266.1 | Oil and gas | Cavendish (sell-side)BLG (sell-side)McCullough Robertson (sell-side)Latham & Watkins (buy-side)Torys (buy-side)White & Case (buy-side)Lakatos, Köves and Partners (buy-side) |
| Sep 2025 | Rex Energy | Whitebark Energy | Conflux Energy Corp. | Acquisition | Announced | 0.2 | Oil and gas | Sayer Energy Advisors (sell-side) |
| Aug 2025 | GoviEx Uranium | – | Tombador Iron | Scheme | Announced | – | Uranium | Galanopoulos & Company (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (sell-side)Stifel (sell-side)Norton Rose Fulbright (sell-side)Yelverton Capital (buy-side)Steinepreis Paganin (buy-side)Farris LLP (buy-side) |
| Aug 2025 | EG Australia (EG Group Australia Pty Ltd and EG AsiaPac Holdings Pty Ltd) | EG Group | Ampol | Acquisition | Completed | 1,100.0 | Oil and gas | Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)UBS (buy-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Aug 2025 | Moranbah North, Grosvenor, Aquila and Capcoal metallurgical coal mines | Anglo American | Peabody Energy | Acquisition | Withdrawn | 6,028.0 | Coal | Jones Day (buy-side) |
| Jul 2025 | Rey Resources | – | Vigorous Resources | Takeover | Completed | – | Oil and gas | SW Accountants & Advisors (sell-side) |
| Jun 2025 | Santos | – | XRG P.J.S.C. | Scheme | Announced | – | Oil and gas | Goldman Sachs (sell-side)JB North & Co (sell-side)Rothschild & Co (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side) |
| Jun 2025 | Shelf Subsea | – | DeepOcean | Acquisition | Completed | – | Energy services | HopgoodGanim Lawyers (buy-side)Stephenson Harwood (buy-side) |
| May 2025 | Renergen | – | ASP Isotopes | Scheme | Completed | – | Oil and gas | Forvis Mazars (South Africa) (sell-side) |
| May 2025 | Matrix Composites & Engineering | – | Advanced Innergy Holdings | Scheme | Withdrawn | – | Energy services | Azure Capital (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)Henslow (buy-side)MinterEllison (buy-side) |
| Apr 2025 | Energy Resources of Australia | – | North | Acquisition | Announced | – | Uranium | Lonergan Edwards & Associates (sell-side) |
| Apr 2025 | Louisiana LNG Infrastructure | Woodside Energy Group | Stonepeak | Stake | Announced | – | Oil and gas | RBC Capital Markets (sell-side)Evercore (sell-side)Norton Rose Fulbright (sell-side) |
| Mar 2025 | Pine Ridge Uranium Project | Stakeholder Energy | Global Uranium and Enrichment | Asset sale | Announced | – | Uranium | Canaccord Genuity (buy-side)Steinepreis Paganin (buy-side) |
| Feb 2025 | King Energy | – | Whitebark Energy | Takeover | Completed | – | Oil and gas | EMK Lawyers (sell-side)Steinepreis Paganin (buy-side)AE Advisors (buy-side)Business Initiatives (buy-side) |
| – | Bowen Coking Coal | – | Argo Bowen | Acquisition | Announced | – | Coal | Johnson Winter Slattery (buy-side) |
| – | Dawson mine | Peabody Energy | BUMA Internasional Grup Tbk | Asset sale | Announced | 646.3 | Coal | Jones Day (sell-side) |
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