Mergermarket M&A Awards Australia 2022
Recognising the best in the M&A community!
The Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney
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Maggie is Mergermarket’s Australia Bureau Chief, leading a team of journalists across Australia and New Zealand to write about corporate growth strategies, M&A deals, PE buyouts, cross-border M&A intelligence, as well as data-backed analysis and trend pieces.
Working closely with her colleagues around world, she has been leading the Australian bureau’s cross-border coverage, particularly between Australia and Asia. She also acts as a coordinator on the ground in Australia to facilitate cross-product collaboration between Mergermarket and other sister publications under Acuris, including DealReporter, Inframation and PaRR.
She previously worked at The Australian and Reuters, starting her Australian journalism career in the Press Gallery in Canberra. Maggie has been based in Sydney since 2013.
Currently editorial consultant to Dealreporter and director of Mergermarket Australia, Simon Segal established the Australian bureau of Mergermarket in 2005 where he was bureau chief and Asian editor of Dealreporter (2006-2009).
He has a PhD in the relationship between stakeholders and M&A which has been converted into a book Reframing Mergers and Acquisitions around Stakeholder Relationships: Economic, Political and Social Processes (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies). He has co-hosted the weekly Dealbook on the former Sky Business channel and has contributed M&A commentary to numerous Australian publications.
Simon has some 30 years experience in researching, editing, writing and commenting on financial issues, specialising in M&A since 2005.
Tim is a founder of Pacific Equity Partners and is a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Prior to founding PEP, Tim was the Chairman and Managing Director of Bain & Company’s Australasian and African operations and a member of Bain & Company’s Global Executive Committee. Tim has also served on a number of government committees and led national strategy projects. Tim received a BA/MA from Oxford University where he was a Mitsui European Scholar and an MPA from Harvard where he was a Kennedy Scholar. In 2019, Tim was made a member in the general division of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the community through philanthropic initiatives.
Chris is Head of M&A at Woolworths Group where he is responsible for acquisitions, divestments and strategic investments.
Chris has more than 20 years experience advising on, and executing, public and private mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions from both a corporate and advisory perspective. Prior to joining Woolworths Group in 2018, Chris spent more than 14 years in investment banking, including 11 years with Goldman Sachs where he was most recently Head of Consumer, Retail and Healthcare in Australia & New Zealand. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Chris was a member of the Industrials and Natural Resources team at Citi and began his career as a lawyer in M&A at Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
Chris has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Monash University.
Kerry Morrow is a founder and director of Laity Morrow, a premium transactional and advisory law firm with three core practice areas: M&A and Corporate; Projects, Property and Infrastructure and Energy, Resources and Renewables. Kerry practises in commercial and corporate law with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. She is recognised for her expertise in Best Lawyers® in the areas of M&A, Corporate governance, Corporate and Commercial and in Doyles Guide Australia as a leading lawyer in the areas of Commercial and Corporate in South Australia. Kerry is a member of the Australian Takeovers Panel, sits on the Corporations Law Committee (SA Branch) of the Law Council of Australia, and is also a director of Tennis SA.
Catherine is a deeply experienced company director, having served in the past 15 years,on the boards of companies including Coca-Cola Amatil Limited, Boral Limited, AMP Limited and other organisations in the mining, financial services,property, biotech, logistics, visual and performing arts, education and government sectors.
She has previously served as a member of the Takeovers Panel.Catherine was a Managing Director, Investment Banking at ABN AMRO having previously worked at BZW and starting her career as a corporate lawyer.
Catherine is a non executive director of Scentre Group (ASX:SCG) the owner and operator of Westfield Australia and NZ, the Chair of Australian Payments Plus (BPAY, eftpos, NPP), a non executive director of the George Institute for Global Health, Schools Plus and a number of unlisted companies.
David Lang (Sydney) joined KKR in 2018 and is the Head of the Private Equity team in Australia. He has led KKR across a number of investments in Australia and New Zealand, including The Arnott’s Group, Colonial First State and MYOB. He also represents KKR on the Board of the Australian Investment Council. Mr. Lang is a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Simon is currently focusing on private opportunities.
He was previously Head of Investment Banking Australia and New Zealand at J.P. Morgan. During his almost thirty year career in investment banking he worked at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch in various roles including Head of M&A and Head of Real Estate. Prior to working in investment banking he was a solicitor at Baker and McKenzie.
Simon has a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Queensland University.