Greater Sydney Area
A leading corporate adviser in Australia since 1984, I bring almost 40 years advisory experience to our clients. I previously co-founded Caliburn Partnership (sold to Greenhill in 2010) and prior to that was Head of Corporate Finance at BZW Australia and ABN AMRO. My major advisory roles include: Oil Search unsolicited $11.2b proposal from Woodside Petroleum, GrainCorp on its $3.0b unsolicited takeover by Archer Daniels Midland, Beach Energy on the $1.6b acquisition of Lattice Energy, ERM on its $630mn sale to Shell, Coal & Allied on the $10.6b agreed takeover by Rio Tinto, Lynas on its successful $1.5bn Defence from Wesfarmers, Autosports Group on its IPO, Origin Energy on the sale of 53% interest in Contact Energy $NZ1.8b, British Airways on the sell-down of its 18.25% stake in Qantas $1.1b and Qantas on its $1.9bn capital raise, capital management and on-market buybacks. I am Vice Chair of MOMA PS1 in New York and Vice Chair of the Tate International Council and a board member of Marlborough College in UK. I am past Chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art , past Chair the NSW Visual Arts Board and a past director of MOCA in Los Angeles and American Academy in Rome. I am a member of the International Council of the MOMA and I am also a Board member of the Centre for Independent Studies ,the Garvan Research Foundation and Forward Thinking in UK. I was knighted in Italy and awarded Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia-Knighted in the Order of the Star of Italy I was a director of the ABC (2012 – 2017), Australian Commissioner for the Venice Biennale 2013/2015, and Deputy President of the Takeovers Panel 2000-2010. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Executive Co-Chairman Luminis Partners