Ashurst has acted as the legal adviser to the Consortium which has acquired the Real Pet Food Company Group (RPFC), from Quadrant Private Equity and other minority shareholders, in a deal worth A$1 billion.

RPFC is the largest independent pet food manufacturer in Australia and is among the 20 largest pet food manufacturers globally.

The acquisition consortium was led by Hosen Capital, a leading private equity firm based in Beijing, together with China’s largest private agribusiness enterprise New Hope Group, and the Singapore investment company, Temasek.
The Ashurst Australia team was led by partners Mark Stanbridge (Corporate) and Shawn Wytenburg (Banking & Finance) and included senior associates Rahil Patel and Genovieve Lajeunesse, lawyers Simon Vose and Molly Woods and graduate Ian Hedberg (Corporate); senior associate Chun Wing Yeung and lawyer Andrew Vumbaca (Banking & Finance); partner Jennie Mansfield and lawyer Mary Azzi (Employment); partners Vivian Chang and Barbara Phair with senior associates Elke Bremner and Sophia Kwok (Tax); partner Rebecca Dixon and lawyer Montana Linkio (Environment & Planning); partner Andrew Deane with lawyer Kate Ferguson (Property); partner Lisa Ritson, senior associate Maria Sun and graduate Lachlan Wright (IP); with senior associate Philip Hopley (Insurance). The Ashurst Singapore team included partner Simon Brown and associate Cheryl Ang (Corporate).