Alex Bond

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Alex is an experienced corporate lawyer, with particular focus on private and public M&A transactions, private equity, joint ventures and equity capital markets.

Alex is an internationally experienced and trusted corporate and commercial lawyer in Bell Gully’s market-leading corporate team. He has experience advising corporates, private equity sponsors and other financial investors on cross-border private and public M&A and other corporate and commercial matters across a broad range of sectors.

Alex's recent work highlights include advising Vodafone New Zealand on the sale of its passive mobile tower infrastructure assets to InfraRed Capital Partners and Northleaf Capital Partners, NYSE/TSX-listed cloud-based commerce platform provider Lightspeed Commerce on its acquisition of Vend and NASDAQ-listed Bentley Systems on its acquisition of Seequent.

Alex won a Rising Star award at the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2022, was an Excellence Awardee for Young Private Practice Lawyer of the Year at the New Zealand Law Awards 2022 and was also recognised in NZ Lawyer's 2022 Rising Stars’ list.

Alex started his career at Bell Gully and returned to the firm in 2020, after four years working in the London and Paris offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a Senior Associate in Freshfields' Global Transactions team and advised on a variety of transactions for corporate, private equity and other financial investor clients. During his time at Freshfields, Alex also spent seven months seconded as legal counsel to international private equity firm Cinven in London.

Work highlights

Vodafone New Zealand TowerCo sale
Advising Vodafone New Zealand on the sale of its passive mobile tower infrastructure assets (or the business now known as Fortysouth) for NZ$1.7 billion to funds managed or advised by InfraRed Capital Partners (on behalf of HICL Infrastructure plc) and Northleaf Capital Partners, alongside a reinvestment by Infratil.

Air New Zealand recapitalisation including rights offer
Advising Air New Zealand on its comprehensive $2.2 billion recapitalisation package to help position the airline for recovery, including its $1.2 billion pro rata renounceable rights offer.

Capgemini acquisition of Empired/Intergen
Advising Capgemini on the New Zealand aspects of its proposed A$233m acquisition of ASX-listed Empired Limited (ASX: EPD) by way of scheme of arrangement, including the New Zealand business Intergen, an international technology transformation and modern managed services provider.

Fletcher Building on-market share buyback programme
Advising Fletcher Building on its on-market share buyback of Fletcher Building shares, for a maximum aggregate purchase price of NZ$300 million, announced in May 2021 and which commenced in June 2021.

Lightspeed Commerce acquisition of Vend
Advising Lightspeed Commerce, a NYSE- and TSX-listed leading provider of cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platforms on its proposed acquisition of Vend, an Auckland headquartered cloud-based retail management software company, for US$350 million.

Bentley Systems acquisition of Seequent
Advising Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading NASDAQ-listed infrastructure engineering software company, on the proposed acquisition of Seequent, a world leader in developing 3D geological modelling software, headquartered in Christchurch, for US$1.05 billion.

Cognizant acquisition of EI-Technologies
Advising NASDAQ-listed digital corporation Cognizant on its acquisition of EI-Technologies, a French digital technology consulting group and Salesforce platform specialist.

EPH and GazelEnergie sale of Emile Huchet CCGT and CODAP businesses
Advising European energy group Energetický a průmyslový holding a.s. (EPH) and its French energy business GazelEnergie on the sale of the Emile Huchet combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) energy generation and CODAP businesses to listed French energy group Total.

Solvay sale of North American and European amphoteric surfactant business
Advising Belgian-headquartered international chemicals group Solvay on the sale of its North American and European amphoteric surfactant business to OpenGate Capital.

Various CVC acquisitions and disposals
Advising CVC on various transactions including its acquisitions of UK IT education and skills training provider QA and global aviation support business Ontic, its refinancing and corporate reorganisation of Sky Betting & Gaming (Sky Bet), and its disposals of Sky Bet and Paroc Group.

First Reserve acquisition of Weir Flow Control
Advising First Reserve on its acquisition of The Weir Group Plc's Flow Control division, subsequently renamed Trillium Flow Technologies, a global manufacturer of pumps, valves and other solutions used in energy and industrial sectors and based across, with operations in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.

Terra Firma acquisition of Parmaco and related consortium arrangements
Advising Terra Firma Capital Partners on its acquisition of Parmaco, a Finnish business that designs, builds and rents prefabricated modular buildings for schools and other users in Finland and Sweden, and on related consortium investment arrangements with Metric Capital and SHK & Co.

Proposed merger of Vodafone New Zealand and SKY TV
Advising Vodafone Group Plc and Vodafone New Zealand on the proposed merger of Vodafone New Zealand and NZX-listed SKY Network Television (SKY TV).

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