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 APAC Associate Editor and Australia/New Zealand Bureau Chief. She joined Mergermarket Australia in 2017 and has since been covering corporate strategy, M&A, and private equity activities as a journalist and an editor. She manages the Australian bureau, supports Mergermarket’s APAC editorial team, and facilitates cross-platform collaboration under ION Analytics between Mergermarket and sister publications including Debtwire and Infralogic. She previously worked at The Australian and Reuters, starting her Australian journalism career at the Federal Parliamentary 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 joined KKR in 2018 and is a Partner and Co-Head of KKR Australia and New Zealand. He is also the Head of the Private Equity team for KKR in Australia and New Zealand and has led KKR across a number of its investments, including The Arnott’s Group and Colonial First State. Prior to KKR, he was a founding member and partner of a global private equity fund based in London and New York.
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.