About Holly
Holly McConnell is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer, specialising in regulated and unregulated mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, joint ventures, and asset acquisitions.
Holly has over 7 years’ experience working across various resources, renewable and low emissions energy projects. She understands the importance of delivering strategic legal advice that drives successful outcomes for transactions and projects.
Holly assists a range of clients, including listed and unlisted companies, small to large proprietary companies, early stage ventures, junior explorers and service providers in a variety of industries but with a focus on exploration and operational projects in coal, gas, minerals and metals. Her work also covers sale and acquisition of small to large scale renewable energy projects in Australia.
Holly’s expertise spans negotiating complex agreements, such as joint ventures, farm-in and offtake arrangements and royalties, navigating FIRB approval processes, and overseeing project development transactions. Noting Holly’s range of experience, Holly is also skilled and assists clients in other sectors including financial services, technology, fintech, food and agribusiness, health, and resources.
Specialisations
Experience
Private Canadian company
Assisting a private Canadian company focused on the development of hard coking coal projects to undertake a capital raising by way of issue of secured convertible notes
Far East Gold Limited
Advising on the acquisition of an economic interest of up to 100 percent of the Idenburg gold project located in Papua province of Indonesia
AxSym Technology Pty Ltd shareholders
Advising the shareholders of AxSym Technology Pty Ltd on the divestment of their shares to SOCO Corporation Ltd for $10.7 million.
Birch and Waite Holdings Pty Ltd
Advising on the acquisition of 100 percent of the total issued capital of Australian Food Investments Pty Ltd.
Seafarms Group Limited and Seafarm Queensland Pty Ltd
Advising on the sale and leaseback of certain assets and real property owned by SQPL and located in Cardwell, Queensland.
PPK Group Limited
Advising on the acquisition of the New South Wales and Queensland based business of Valley Longwall Diesel.