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Nav Mesbah

Senior Associate | Mergers & Acquisitions | Private Equity & Investments

Nav Mesbah is a Senior Associate at Rouse Lawyers specialising in mergers and acquisitions, investments and corporate reorganisations. Dual-qualified in Australia and Scotland, Nav advises entrepreneurs, management teams, private equity investors and corporations on mid-market transactions in Australia and internationally.

Nav’s experience includes sell-side and buy-side M&A, private equity and investment transactions, capital raising and group reorganisations. Before joining Rouse Lawyers, he practised corporate M&A in the United Kingdom with TLT LLP and trained with Brodies LLP in Scotland.

At Rouse, Nav has worked on transactions across defence and national security, infrastructure, technology, software, food manufacturing, industrial businesses, professional services and healthcare.

Mergers and acquisitions

Nav advises on mergers and acquisitions, investments and group reorganisations, with a particular focus on the middle market.

He works with entrepreneurs, management teams, private equity investors and corporations across different sides of a transaction, including founder and shareholder exits, strategic acquisitions, investments, private-equity-backed transactions and transactions involving listed counterparties.

Nav is part of Rouse Lawyers’ Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

Selected transactions

At Rouse Lawyers, Nav has been involved in transactions including:

  • Acting for XKG, a specialist defence and national security business, on its sale to Infrastructure Advisory Group, backed by growth equity investor Quintet Yorkway
  • Acting for a major shareholder of Macspred Australia, a specialist weed-management business servicing forestry, road, rail, utilities and infrastructure, on its sale to Syngenta
  • Acting for EP Food Company, a food manufacturing business, on its sale to Birch & Waite
  • Acting for AssetOn, an asset-management software and services business, on its sale to ASX-listed COSOL
  • Acting for The Truss Company and its shareholders on its sale to Finlayson’s Timber and Hardware
  • Acting for Practice Protect, a cybersecurity platform used by accounting firms globally, on its sale to US-based Rightworks
  • Acting for Speciality Services Queensland, a water and waste-management business, on its sale to REMONDIS Australia
  • Acting for Sign Essentials, a distributor of sign, display and digital-printing equipment and consumables, on its sale to Ball & Doggett
  • Acting for Candor Medical, an Australian medicinal-cannabis telehealth provider, on its sale to Vitura Health Limited
  • Acting for Nexvia, a construction project-management software platform, on its sale to ASX-listed Felix Group

UK transaction experience

Before joining Rouse, Nav worked on corporate M&A, private equity and investment transactions at TLT in the United Kingdom.

His matters included the £25 million asset sale of 12 freehold London pubs by Downing-backed selling entities to Portobello Brewery.

Nav also worked on K3 Capital Group’s £10 million acquisition fundraise, supporting its acquisitions of Knight Corporate Finance Group and Knight R&D.

His UK technology transaction experience includes working on the international sale of Senceive to Eddyfi NDT.

Professional background

Before joining Rouse Lawyers, Nav was an Associate in Corporate M&A at TLT LLP, where he worked on M&A, private equity and investment transactions.

He previously trained at Brodies LLP in Scotland before continuing his corporate M&A practice at TLT and subsequently moving to Australia.

Qualifications and admissions

  • LLB (Honours), University of Edinburgh
  • Exchange studies, University of Queensland
  • Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, University of Edinburgh
  • Australian legal conversion and re-qualification studies through the University of Southern Queensland, Central Queensland University and Leo Cussen Centre for Law
  • Admitted as a solicitor in Queensland
  • Admitted as a solicitor in Scotland

Publications

Nav has written on M&A and corporate law in Australia and the United Kingdom.

He has authored numerous articles published through Lexology, primarily on M&A and corporate law, and contributed a legal Q&A to The Times in 2019.

At Rouse Lawyers, Nav has also written on M&A and transaction issues.

Speak with Nav

Speak with Nav Mesbah about a business sale or acquisition, investment, private equity transaction or corporate reorganisation.