Mark has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking, corporate advisory and law. Mark’s experience extends across a broad range of sectors and corporate finance transactions, including, mergers & acquisitions, divestments, privatisations and strategic advice.
Mark has significant expertise in public takeovers, demergers and digital infrastructure transactions.
Prior to joining Gresham, Mark worked as an investment banker at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. Mark has also worked as a corporate lawyer at DLA Piper.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws at Monash University, he has completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment at the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and has been admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Selected transaction experience includes advising:
- Insignia takeover defence and scheme of arrangement with CC Capital
- Intralot S.A. on the acquisition of the Victorian gaming monitoring license
- City of Melbourne and Citywide on the divestment of the Citywide waste business to Cleanaway and waste infrastructure redevelopment
- RED 5 on its merger with Silver Lake Resources
- Macquarie Asset Management, Aware Super and Australian Retirement Trust on their investment in the VicRoads joint venture with the State of Victoria
- Iress on its takeover defence and the unsolicited proposal from EQT
- Asciano on its takeover defence and subsequent scheme of arrangement with a consortium including Qube, Brookfield, GIP, CPPIB, CIC, GIC, bcIMC and QIA
- Foster’s on its takeover defence and scheme of arrangement with SABMiller
- Wesfarmers on the demerger of Coles
- BHP Billiton on the demerger of South32
- Foster’s on the demerger of Treasury Wine Estates
- Macquarie Asset Management, Sunsuper and HESTA on their acquisition of the WA land registry
- Aware Super on its acquisition of the Victorian land registry
- Computershare and UniSuper on their bid for the SA land registry
- Computershare on its consortium bid with OMERS for the NSW land registry
- Computershare in relation to the privatisation of the ASIC companies register
- Computershare on the sale of connectnow to AGL
- Dun & Bradstreet Inc. on the sale of D&B ANZ (illion) to Archer Capital
- The North Australian Pastoral Company on the sale of a majority interest to QIC
- Equip & Catholic Super (Togethr Trustees) on sale of MyLifeMyFinance bank to Challenger
- Sensis on the sale of Location Navigation to TomTom NV
- AustralianSuper on the sale of its interests in Loy Yang A
- PepsiCo Inc. on the acquisition of Russia’s largest juice company
- Medi-Clinic International on the acquisition of Hirslanden AG
- Nordzucker AG on its acquisition of Danisco Sugar AS