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Biography

David Friedlander is the head of our Australian public mergers & acquisitions and works in the Sydney and Melbourne offices of King & Wood Mallesons. He is consistently ranked as one of Australia's top M&A and equity capital markets lawyers. David regularly acts for both bidders and targets in takeovers and issuers and underwriters in securities offerings. He has also worked on the defence side of several high-profile shareholder activist campaigns. He is a member of several key corporate law bodies and a former member of the Australian Takeovers Panel. David is integral to the firm's growth in Asia Pacific spending time working closely with our Hong Kong and China teams and is a member of the International Management Committee of the firm.