Jennifer Wong
Jennifer specialises in equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
Jennifer is a senior associate in the Corporate group in Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's Melbourne office. She advises listed and unlisted companies on a broad range of corporate matters, including fundraisings, acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructures and general corporate advisory work.
Jennifer has significant experience advising clients across a wide range of industries on initial public offerings and secondary capital raisings. She also regularly acts for lead managers and underwriters on equity capital markets transactions.
Jennifer recently completed an internal secondment to the firm’s Digital Transactions team, where she led the Digital Corporate practice in Australia. In this role, she managed a team of qualified lawyers and experienced legal analysts delivering complex, bespoke corporate legal solutions through the strategic use of technology. She was responsible for implementing and embedding advanced legal technology tools, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve efficiency on document intensive, high volume and process-driven aspects of client workflows.
This experience enables Jennifer to bring a distinctive, technology informed perspective to corporate transactions, helping clients achieve innovative, cost effective outcomes.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Nuchev on its $48.7 million initial public offering
- Newcrest Mining on its $1.2 billion institutional placement and share purchase plan
- Metcash on its $313.6 million institutional placement and share purchase plan
- EML Payments on its $250 million institutional placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer
- BHP Group on its A$7.3 billion (US$5.2 billion) off-market share buy-back
Background
Jennifer graduated from Monash University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce. She joined the firm's Melbourne office as a graduate in March 2015 and is admitted to practise in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia.
