Mergermarket M&A Awards Australia 2023
Recognising the best in the M&A community!
The Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney
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James has over 20 years experience in finance and corporate development, working in Sydney, London, Dublin, New York and Los Angeles before returning home to Sydney to take on the CFO at Ansarada.
Todd Barlow is the Managing Director of Washington H Soul Pattinson and Company Limited, an ASX listed investment house. Mr Barlow has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and investing and has been responsible for a number of WHSP’s investments since joining the WHSP Group in 2004. His career has spanned positions in law and investment banking in Sydney and Hong Kong.
Mr Barlow has a Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
As Director, FINEX, Australasia for Willis Towers Watson (previously Risk Capital Advisors), Steven is one of the most highly regarded M&A insurance practitioners in Asia Pacific.
He has extensive experience advising large private and publicly listed companies on complex and high-value negotiated M&A insurance transactions. He is known for his innovative solutions and his ability to execute a deal in a timely manner, without compromising coverage.
Steven was one of only a handful of lawyers to have been ranked in the list of Australia's Best Lawyers as published by Chambers and Partners. As a lawyer he regularly advised insurers based in Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Spain in connection with the underwriting of M&A insurance risks in M&A transactions.
Professor Peter Swan AO FRSN FASSA is currently in UNSW-Sydney Business School. Peter completed his Honours Economics Degree at ANU, his PhD at Monash and after a visiting position at the University of Chicago, joined the Economics faculty at ANU, then to a chair at AGSM (UNSW), and was foundation professor in the Finance Department at the University of Sydney prior to returning to UNSW. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1997 and gained recognition in the Queen’s Birthday Honours lists in 2003 and 2016 with the Order of Australia (AM) and (AO), respectively. In 2018 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He undertakes research into corporate finance, corporate governance, investments, hedge funds, stock market trading and design, M&A activity, etc. He has published numerous articles in top journals, including three in the Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Economic Studies. His public profile in the media is due to his success in promoting reforms such as tax imputation and the retention of the Australian Stock Exchange in Australian. His piece in The Conversation on why females are better traders than males attracted 33,000 downloads in a few days and his advice to the Senate will have added $65 billion to company tax receipts over the next decade.
Teresa is a professional non-executive director and chair of audit & risk committees with a portfolio of directorships that includes current and former roles with Seven West Media Ltd, Genex Power Limited, Shine Justice Ltd, Brighter Super, Energy Queensland, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Board Housing Australia. Teresa is a member of the Takeovers Panel and a Fellow of the AICD. Teresa is a former Non-executive Director of UN Women National Committee Australia Ltd and Opera Queensland, a former Chair of each of the Board of Taxation and the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and a former member of the Foreign Investment Review Board. Teresa is also a former partner of each of Ashurst and Deloitte.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.