Robert Sultan
Senior Consultant
Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Biography
Robert Sultan is a corporate and commercial lawyer based in Melbourne.
Robert has significant experience interacting with clients at senior management and board level as well as managing and controlling M&A and equity capital markets projects. He has worked on and supervised a wide range of corporate law matters including general corporate and commercial advice regarding Chapter 6 and related provisions of the Corporations Act, Takeovers Panel applications, ASX Listing and Operating Rules, and other legislation.
As a consequence of his work in M&A and membership of the Corporations Act Committee of the Law Council of Australia, Robert is well known to and respected by investment bankers, other lawyers and key regulators including the executive of the Takeovers Panel, ASIC and ASX. His expertise and reputation have made him a natural first stop for clients, some of whom he has worked with for more than 20 years.
Robert is a former member of the Takeovers Panel. He is also a contributing editor to Australian Corporate Practice and has been recognised in the M&A and Corporate categories of Best Lawyers in Australia.
Professional experience
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- Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours), University of Melbourne, 1980
- High Court of Australia 1981
- Federal Court of Australia 1981
- Supreme Court of Western Australia 2001
- Supreme Court of Victoria 1981
- Best Lawyers in Australia – Mergers & Acquisitions, 2011 to 2018
- Best Lawyers in Australia – Corporate, 2014 to 2018
- Law Institute of Victoria, 1981–ongoing
- Law Council of Australia (Corporations Act committee), 2002–ongoing
- Board member of the Gourlay family office and Charitable Trust, 2004–ongoing
- In 2004, the Gourlay Charitable Trust provided a $2.5 million endowment to Trinity College Melbourne to establish the Gourlay Visiting Professorship of Ethics in Business. Under the professorship, an internationally recognised lecturer visits and resides at Trinity College each year to teach ethics in business to students at Trinity College, the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Business School. The visiting Professor also gives lectures to the wider business community.
- Former member of the Australian Takeovers Panel, 2007–2016
- Former member of the external governance committee of the City of Darebin, 2014–2015
- English
Insights
Australian public M&A deal trends report 2023
Publication | February 22, 2023