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Origin Energy had been advised on the sale, by competitive bid, of its Acumen smart metering business to intelliHUB.
Firm: Hive Legal (Origin Energy); Baker McKenzie and Clayton Utz (intelliHUB joint venture).
Value: $267 million.
Area: Corporate.
Key players: The Hive team was led by principals Jeremy Snow, Andrew Brookes and Joanna Green.
Deal significance: “Hive’s team is excited to have acted on these arrangements,” the firm noted in a statement.
“They represent a significant development in the competitive metering market in Australia’s National Electricity Market, following major metering regulatory reforms which came into effect in December 2017.”
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