Jessica Bremner

Senior Associate

Jess is an experienced corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, minority and growth capital investments, joint ventures, carve-outs, private equity, corporate restructuring projects and corporate advisory.

Jess has worked on a broad range of M&A transactions across a variety of sectors. Her clients range from individuals and founder operator businesses to private equity firms and large corporates both in New Zealand and overseas. She has extensive expertise across the full life cycle of a transaction and her ability to anticipate challenges, provide actionable solutions and work collaboratively means she quickly develops close working relationships with clients to facilitate successful deals.

Prior to returning to MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Jess worked in the corporate private equity and financial sponsors team at 'Magic Circle' law firm Linklaters in London where she advised on a number of high-profile, multi-national transactions, predominantly in the digital infrastructure and tech sectors.

Career highlights

A European data centre operator. On the corporate aspects of its recent €3.3bn debt raise (the largest digital infrastructure financing of its kind in Europe) to support the further development of the Data4 group.

A global hyperscale data centre platform on (i) the establishment of a €2.5bn investment partnership with MEAG, Infranity and DigitalBridge (2024 TMT Finance Europe Data Centre Deal of the Year), and (ii) a US$9.2bn equity investment in Vantage led by investment vehicles managed by DigitalBridge Group, Inc. and Silver Lake to accelerate and extend strategic capabilities across North America and EMEA.

It's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) joint venture, nexfibre, with Liberty Global and Telefónica (VMO2) (2023 TMT Finance Europe Fibre Deal of the Year).

Further investment in team.blue (a leading European supplier of digital solutions).

On their entry into a Scheme Implementation Deed to merge with Apollo Tourism and Leisure Limited (ASX:ATL) through an Australian Scheme of Arrangement.

A global label solutions company backed by Platinum Equity Partners, on its acquisition of Hexagon Holdings Limited, a holding company for independent New Zealand and Australian label manufacturing businesses.

Achievements and recognition
  • Band 1 team, Coporate and commercial, Chambers Asia-Pacific
  • Tier 1 team, Corporate and M&A, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific