Angela Melick

Angela Melick

Counsel

With over 20 years experience, Angela specialises in stamp duty and tax issues across all Australian jurisdictions.
She has extensive experience in property transactions, mergers and demergers, vendor and purchaser due diligence, landholder and landrich duty issues and planning, leasing and financing, and planning and structuring.

Experience

Representative matters

A financial institution advising on the stamp duty implications of a disposal and restructuring of certain Australian subsidiaries and JV property interests.

Lanco Infratech on the stamp duty implications of the acquisition of Griffin Coal and assisting Lanco in its dealings with the Western Australian Revenue in relation to the same.

Suez/Degremont on the acquisition of interests in New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian water treatment and infrastructure assets.

Two pharmaceutical companies on the structuring and implementation of a worldwide post-takeover merger and reorganisation of their entities.

Equinix, a global data centre and collocation provider, on its $1.035 billion acquisition of Metronode, an Australian data centre operator.

Eureka Funds Management and AXA Real Estate Investment Managers Singapore Private on the acquisition and lease back of the Australia Post Headquarters, Sydney from the Australian Postal Corporation.

Norwest Projects & Investments on the shareholding in Wright Prospection.

Macquarie Bank in relation to the acquisition of Telecommunications assets/networks from the Federal Government and, later, Macquarie Bank’s sale of those assets.

Brookfield entities in relation to the acquisitions of interests in Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd.

Bass Hotels Group on certain acquisitions and group restructuring.

A retail bank on the establishment of its conditional pass-through covered bond programme.

Published Work

  • Melick, Angela and Wong, Ka Sen. (2016) "Raising the bar for foreign investors, the recent hike in stamp duty and land tax", Thomson Reuters.
  • Melick, Angela. (2009) "Reform of State Taxes" in "Australian Business Tax Reform in Retrospect and Prospect", Thomson Reuters.

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

Member, NSW State Tax Committee of the Property Council of Australia.

Chair (2008-2012), NSW State Tax Committee of the Property Council of Australia.

Member, NSW State Taxes/Joint Accounting Bodies Liaison Committee representing the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (“ICAA”).

Member, Retirement Living Committee of the Property Council of Australia.

Member, Law Society of NSW. Member, Taxation Institute of Australia.

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as a Solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1981

Academic

LLM, Law, Sydney University, 1985

BA, LLB Arts/Law, University of NSW, 1980

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.