Simone Lowes
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Simone Lowes

Counsel

Simone specialises in private M&A, with a focus on private equity transactions.
She advises PE and other financial sponsor clients as well as companies on a broad range of complex and high-value private M&A transactions, including domestic and cross-border transactions, carve outs, joint ventures, co-investments and distressed acquisitions and disposals, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. She works across various sectors, including infrastructure, renewable energy and healthcare.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Advising a US headquartered private equity fund on several acquisitions. 
  • Alinta Energy on the sale of its assets in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to APA Group. 
  • Crescent Capital Partners the acquisition of a 75% stake in PRP Diagnostic Imaging and the subsequent sale of PRP Diagnostic Imaging to IFM Investors. 
  • A foreign pension fund on its upstream minority investment in AirTrunk. 
  • Ardian Private Equity on the sale of Study Group's Australian and New Zealand business to Navitas. 
 

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as a solicitor, New South Wales, Australia, 2008

Academic

Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Wollongong, 2007
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.