Mel joined Gresham in 2019 and is a Vice President in the Corporate Advisory team.
With more than 9 years’ experience in investment banking and corporate advisory, Mel’s experience extends across a broad range of sectors and corporate finance transactions, including private and public market M&A, strategic reviews and restructuring.
Prior to joining Gresham, Mel worked at Lazard Corporate Advisory in Sydney and IMAS Corporate Finance (Marshberry) in London.
Mel holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws, Distinction from the University of New South Wales.
Select transaction experience includes:
- Crown Resorts’ takeover defence from Blackstone's $8.9bn take-private
- MyState Bank's proposed $755m merger with Auswide Bank
- Platinum Equity’s acquisition of Jeld-Wen Australasia for $688m
- Telstra’s acquisition of Digicel Pacific for $2.4bn
- Healius’ defence adviser in relation to Australian Clinical Labs’ $1.6bn takeover offer
- Healius’ sale of Montserrat day hospitals to Queensland Investment Corporation for $139m
- Healius on its $187m equity capital raising
- Adamantem's acquisition of QANTM Intellectual Property for $260m
- Quadrant Private Equity's sale of myHomecare to Australian Unity for $285m
- Rip Curl’s sale to Kathmandu for $350m
- Morrison & Co’s acquisition of Flow Systems
- PM Capital Asian Opportunities Fund’s sale to Wilson Asset Management
- MPC Kinetic, a portfolio company of SCF Partners and Viburnum, on the sale of Kinetic Logging Services to Epiroc
- GSO Capital’s financing to Arrium
- Mirvac’s sale of Mirvac Industrial Trust to Goldman Sachs AM
- LJ Hooker’s sale to a private consortium