Conor Dolphin

Senior Associate

Partner Elect

Sydney
About

Conor has extensive international experience advising on all aspects of corporate law including private M&A, private equity, venture capital, corporate restructurings, corporate governance and commercial advisory work. Conor advises clients across a range of industry sectors including technology, pharma/healthcare and energy.

Conor previously acted as UK and EMEA legal counsel at Jonas Software, an operating group of Constellation Software Inc., a serial acquirer of vertical market software businesses. He led over 20 technology company acquisitions across the UK, Europe and Latin America while providing legal counsel to an international portfolio of software businesses.

Prior to Jonas Software, Conor worked with a top Irish corporate law firm.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsTechnologyEnergy and Natural ResourcesLife Sciences
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and WalesSolicitor regulated by the Law Society of Ireland

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Advanced Navigation on its Series C financing and secondary sale, comprising investments by Airtree Ventures, Quadrant Private Equity and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation.
  • Advising Accel KKR on its acquisition of MOA, an Australian aged care and clinical management software provider.
  • Advising Accel KKR on its acquisition of Health Metrics, an Australian healthcare data and outcomes analytics platform.
  • Advising BASF on its acquisition of the biological insect control group AgBiTech, which has operations in Australia, Brazil and the United States.
  • Advising Perseus Group, an operating group of Constellation Software Inc. on the multi-jurisdictional acquisition of Auto-IT Group, a market leading dealer management system provider for franchise automotive, agriculture, trucking and construction equipment markets, with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Malaysia.
  • Advising Demyst, the Syndey-based financial services-focused software business on the sale of its business to Feedzai.
  • Advising a global payments provider on its acquisition of an electronic funds transfer business operating in Hong Kong and the PRC.
  • Advising Seven West Media (ASX:SWM) on its acquisition of Southern Cross Media Group Limited's (ASX: SXL) television licenses and associated assets operating in Tasmania, Darwin, Spencer Gulf, Broken Hill, Mt Isa and Remote, Central and Eastern Australia.
  • Advising Keywords Studios on the acquisition of Robot Circus.
  • Advising SPC Global on its acquisition of the powdered milk business of Nature One Dairy in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Languages
  • English
Education
  • University College Dublin, LLM (Commercial), 2010
  • University of Limerick, BA Law and Accounting, 2009

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