Current Practice

Richard Hendriks has been a director of Greenwoods & Freehills Pty Limited since 1998. Richard advises on a wide range of corporate tax matters.

Industry Experience

Richard has extensive experience in advising on business mergers and acquisitions, company restructures, including capital raising, due diligence investigations and a number of public company listings.  

Recently, Richard has advised Metcash on its acquisition of Foodland and AGL on its merger with Alinta and subsequent spin-off of AGL Energy.

Richard has been closely involved with the venture capital/private equity industry for many years, acting for the larger private equity funds in respect of management buy-out transactions and expansion capital investments. Richard’s involvement includes pre-sale restructuring, coordinating due diligence, acquisition funding including thin capitalisation and debt/equity classification issues, divestment transactions and management equity participation. He has also extensive experience in the establishment of private equity funds, including tax structuring the investment executives’ carried interests.

Richard's work in the area has included advising on the acquisition of the Loy Yang A Power Station for a consortium led by the Australian Gas Light Company, the acquisition of Australian Geographic from the Fairfax Group, the acquisition of Olex Cables from Pacific Dunlop, structuring the executive share scheme arrangements for the Sheridan Group, the acquisition of Repco from Pacific Dunlop, and the acquisition of the Edwards Dunlop paper business from Paperlinx.

Professional Background

Following a three year period working in the tax division of an international accounting firm in Sydney, Richard practised for three years in the United Kingdom, where he specialised in international tax. During that time, Richard gained extensive experience in the structuring of international corporate groups and their transactions.

Richard holds Bachelor of Economics and Master of Taxation degrees from the University of Sydney. He is an associate of the Taxation Institute of Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Richard has played an active role in the development of aspects of Australia's recent tax reform and is a member of the National Tax Liaison Group Consolidation Sub Committee which meets regularly with the ATO and Treasury.