K&L Gates Advises Fat Zebra on Acquisition of SecurePay From Australia Post

Global law firm K&L Gates has advised Fat Zebra, a leading provider of digital payment solutions across Australia, on its successful acquisition of SecurePay Pty Ltd from Australia Post. 

SecurePay is one of Australia’s original online payments providers, with a 20-year track record and more than 35,000 businesses using its services.

This deal marks Fat Zebra’s third strategic acquisition in the past 14 months, following its acquisition of SME embedded payments platform Pin Payments late last year and its purchase of customer data portability group Adatree in February 2024. The firm also advised Fat Zebra on the Pin Payments and Adatree transactions.

Pred Dragila, Founder and CEO of Fat Zebra, commented: “With SecurePay, Pin Payments and Adatree now part of the Fat Zebra family, we've built a unified organisation with a more powerful platform for Australian businesses. K&L Gates has delivered technical advice on complex issues to support each of these acquisitions and worked tirelessly with the broader Fat Zebra team to see them through to completion.”

The Corporate team was led by Sydney partner Nick Ramage, with support from Richard Chew (Information Technology), Daniel Knight (Regulatory), and Stephen Hardy (Employment) and corporate team members Jacob Blakely and Tom Farinelli. 

Ramage stated: “It has been a privilege to be a part of Fat Zebra’s growth journey and to assist them pursue multiple strategic acquisitions to evolve their service offerings. We look forward to seeing the benefits of this latest acquisition accrue to Fat Zebra, its wider customer base and the broader payments industry in Australia.”

K&L Gates’ Corporate practice is one of the most substantial in the legal industry, with hundreds of lawyers in offices on five continents, providing clients with practical legal solutions in the structuring, financing, and completion of domestic, international, and cross-border transactions.