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 Non-executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Seven West Media Ltd, Genex Power Limited and Shine Justice Ltd and Non-executive Director of Entyr Ltd, Brighter Super, Energy Queensland, National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Board and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education. 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 (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.
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 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.
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.