1 Robert Josephs Director Contact: T +61 3 8681 4417 M +61 409 931 880 E robert.josephs@ clarendonlawyers.com.au Robert has considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. In addition to Robert’s experience in m&a and private equity, Robert has extensive experience in joint venture arrangements, debt and equity raises, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate restructures, corporate governance and other general commercial contracting matters. Since January 2008, Robert has worked in the M&A/corporate teams at Clarendon Lawyers where he has been responsible for leading a significant number of M&A and other corporate transactions which led to his appointment as a Director of Clarendon Lawyers on 1 January 2014. Examples of some transactions that Robert has advised on include: Private Equity • advising Healthcare Australia on its disposal to Crescent Capital private equity; • advising Healthcare Australia on multiple transactions, including its purchase of Wellness & Lifestyle Group, Medic Oncall, Positive Rehab, Employ-ease vocation and Randstad’s “care” recruitment business; • advising SunDoctors (a portfolio business of Crescent Capital) on its roll-up of various skin-cancer clinics; • advising Advent Partners private equity group on its investment into Tribe Brewing and other bolt on acquisitions and capital raises, including its acquisition of Mornington Peninsula Brewery; • advising Junior Adventures Group (backed by Quadrant and Advent private equity) on various transaction, including its acquisitions of Helping Hands Network and the Sherpa Kids world-wide franchise network; • advising Sterling Talent Solutions (sponsored by Goldman Sachs private equity), on its separate acquisitions of RISQ Group and National Crime Check; • acting for the majority stakeholders of the Purebaby clothing chain to acquire remaining minority interests and a proposed private equity sale; Founder-related • advising on the sale of MSC Mobility to Telstra Corporation Ltd; • advising the founders of BluePod coffee to Lavazza; • advising the founders of Halcyon Knights recruitment to ASX listed People Infrastructure Ltd; • advising the founders of Fabtronics on its sale to Fluidra Group, listed on the Bolsa de Madrid;