Hunter Zhu
Lawyer
Amber Zhang
Lawyer
Christina Koren
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Ella Arbuckle Page
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Jack Crawford
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Hugh Beith
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Toby Johnson
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Gaynor Tracey

Partner, National Head of Corporate

Gaynor approaches her work with a commercial and pragmatic mindset, consistently aiming to deliver practical solutions that meet her client’s business objectives. An exceptional communicator with deep legal expertise, Gaynor builds strong relationships with her clients, ensuring she understands their needs and provides straightforward advice that can be acted upon.

Gaynor brings 25 years’ experience in M&A in London and Australia. She is an experienced corporate transactional and advisory lawyer with a diverse and extensive skillset, having developed a successful corporate transactional practice representing public and large private companies, funds, banks and shareholders in Australia and internationally. Gaynor regularly advises clients on foreign investment, regulated and private treaty M&A transactions both buy and sell-side and domestic and inbound equity investments

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Gaynor was a partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth for over seven years. She has also worked at other top-tier firms including Thomson Geer, Baker & McKenzie, and Gilbert + Tobin.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Mergers and acquisitions; Takeovers and Schemes of arrangement; Venture Capital; Technology; Financial Services; Foreign Investment (FIRB); Corporate Governance; Directors Duties; ASX Listing Rules; Warranty and Indemnity insurance

AWARDS
  • Best Lawyers (Australia), Commercial Law, 2026 & 2027
  • Best Lawyers (Australia), Venture Capital Law, 2026
  • Best Lawyer (Australia), Commercial, Corporate Law and Venture Capital & 2027
  • Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Corporate Advisory
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Laws (Hons) – Sheffield Hallam University
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice – University of Sheffield
  • Admitted to practice in England and Wales.
  • Admitted to practice in NSW
SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS
  • Advised dual-listed Heartland Bank on its acquisition of Challenger Bank Limited.
  • Advising Cirrus Networks Holding on the acquisition of the target by scheme of arrangement by Attura Limited.
  • Advised Tradeweb Markets Inc. a Nasdaq-listed global operator of electronic marketplaces on its acquisition of Yieldbroker, a leading Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand government bonds and derivatives.
  • Advised First Wave Cloud Technology on its off-market takeover of Opmantek Limited.
  • Acted for Silver Lake, a US-based private equity house, on its acquisition of TEG.
  • Advised McCain on the sale of Sara Lee.
  • Advised Intuit Inc., a US Software giant, on its acquisition of OneSaas.
  • Acting for NAB on its acquisition of payments platform Inloop.
  • Advised Pact Group Limited on the acquisitions of Power Plastics, Viscount Plastics, Brickwoods and Pasoce’s.
  • Advised Symbio on its acquisitions of Conference Call International, Inabox and management on its sale by way of scheme of arrangement to Aussie Broadband.

 

*The above representations were undertaken at previous firm/s.