Benny Sham

Partner

Benny has over 15 years of professional practice experience advising clients in all areas of general corporate and commercial law. He is valued by clients for his calm and considered approach, particularly in complex and time-sensitive matters.

Benny has extensive experience advising on domestic and cross-border public and private M&A and equity capital markets transactions, including takeovers, schemes of arrangement, joint ventures, initial public offerings and secondary raisings. Benny also advises on general corporate governance and ASX listing rules compliance matters.

In addition to his corporate practice, Benny is also a specialist on a range of intellectual property and technology matters, advising clients through all parts of their life cycle from start-ups to ASX listed companies on technology transfer, IP and brand protection, commercialisation and licensing, capital raisings and exit.

Benny speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Benny worked for global law firm Jones Day.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

M&A (public and private); Capital Markets; Securities Offers; ASX Listing Rules Compliance; Intellectual Property; Technology

AWARDS

Doyle’s Guide, Leading Corporate Lawyers – Queensland, 2023

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science (specialisation in Computer Science) – University of Queensland
Master of Laws (specialisation in Intellectual Property) – University of Queensland
Admitted to practice in Queensland and High Court of Australia

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

Advising Eureka Group Holdings Limited on its successful defence of an unsolicited takeover bid by Aspen Group Limited
Advising Armour Energy Limited (ASX: AJQ) on its $32m underwritten placement accelerated rights issue and convertible note issue
Advising Avecho Biotechnology Limited (ASX: AVE) on its $11m prospectus rights issue
Advising Apollo Tourism & Leisure Ltd (ASX: ATL) on its merger with Tourism Holdings Ltd (NZX: THL) by way of scheme of arrangement, and on Apollo’s related divestment of assets to Jucy
Advising Greenwing Resources Ltd on its placement and grant of call option to NIO, Inc., a leading EV producer, acquire up to 40% of the shares in Greenwing’s wholly-owned subsidiary Andes Litio SA, which holds the San Jorge lithium assets in Argentina, for US$80m
Advising Savannah Goldfields Limited (ASX: SVG) on its placement and underwritten ANREO and acquisition of Masterson Resources Pty Ltd, which owns the Georgetown gold processing assets
Advising Invion Limited (ASX: IVX) on its placement and SPP (prospectus offer)
Advising Orocobre Limited (ASX: ORE) on its merger with Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX: GXY) by way of scheme of arrangement to create Allkem, one of the world’s largest lithium chemical companies*
Advising LGIAsuper on its acquisition of Suncorp’s superannuation business*
Advising Benitec Biopharma Limited on its re-domiciliation to the United States by way of scheme of arrangement and listing on Nasdaq*

*Denotes matters worked on at a previous firm