Corporate Advisory
Directors
Bruce McLennan
Managing Director and Co-Head of Advisory, Sydney
Bruce is Managing Director and Co-Head of Gresham's Corporate Advisory business. He is a Non-Executive Director of Kingspan Group Plc and a member of the Australian Takeovers Panel. Bruce is a CPA; a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.
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Neville Spry
Managing Director and Co-Head of Advisory, Sydney
Neville has over 30 years experience in corporate advisory activities and has provided advice to leading Australian and international companies in most industry sectors, including resources, agribusiness, wealth management, finance and banking, insurance, property, retail, health care, utilities and information technology.
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David Feetham
Deputy Chairman, Sydney
David is Deputy Chairman of Gresham's corporate advisory business, Gresham Advisory Partners Limited.
Under his leadership from 1995 - 2013, the business grew from seven executives to be the market-leading independent investment bank in mergers & acquisitions. In this period, Gresham successfully executed well over 150 transactions with...
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Charles Graham
Managing Director, Sydney
Charles is Managing Director of Gresham Partners Limited.
Charles has advised Gresham clients across a range of transactions including Platinum Equity on their acquisition of a majority stake in Sensis from Telstra, Bank of Queensland on the acquisition of Investec Bank Australia, Woodside on ...
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Hugo Dudley-Smith
Managing Director, Sydney
Hugo has been involved in numerous M&A transactions and financing deals. Recent advisory roles have included: the partial sale of Lendlease’s retirement business to APG, the sale of Zip Water to Advent International, the takeover of David Jones by Woolworths Holdings, the sale of Zip Industries to Quadrant Private Equity, the sale of Lend Lease’s aged care business (Primelife) to Archer Capital.
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Matt Keenan
Managing Director, Melbourne
Matt is a Managing Director of Gresham’s Melbourne office. Matt has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking and corporate advisory. Prior to joining Gresham, Matt was Head of Transport & Infrastructure at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 2004. Matt has also senior held positions at UBS Australia, Tabcorp, KMPG and Winstar Partnership.
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Darren MacGregor
Managing Director, Sydney
Darren has a broad range of M&A transaction experience across multiple sectors including: Agriculture, Healthcare, Consumer/Retail, Industrials and TMT. Darren has completed a full range of transactions including sell-side, buy-side, JV/merger, private equity, recapitalisation transactions and detailed strategic reviews...
Julian Babich
Managing Director, Sydney
Julian has over 15 years of experience advising on corporate strategy and M&A transactions across a broad range of sectors, including regulated utilities, transport infrastructure, natural resources and energy infrastructure, property, telecommunications and agriculture.
Notable transaction experience includes...
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Stephen O'Shaughnessy
Managing Director, Sydney
Stephen has more than 15 years’ experience in the corporate finance industry and has worked on a wide range of M&A, equity and debt transactions in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia.
Stephen’s primary focus is the financial services sector including banking, insurance, wealth management and structured finance.
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Mark Stevens
Managing Director, Melbourne
Mark has over 18 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, demergers and capital raisings.
Mark has advised on numerous major transactions, both domestically and...
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Chris Branston
Executive Director, Perth
Chris joined Gresham in 2005 and is an Executive Director of Gresham’s corporate advisory business. From 2006 - 2010 Chris worked in Gresham’s Sydney office before returning to Perth.
Chris has advised on corporate strategy and transactions across a broad range of sectors, including resources and resources services...
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Ben Sloman
Executive Director, Sydney
Ben has extensive experience across a diverse range of strategic matters and transaction types for both corporate, government and private equity clients across multiple industry sectors including aged care and senior living, agriculture, consumer and retail, tourism, resources and mining services, technology, telecommunications and media.
Simon Clarke
Executive Director, Sydney
Simon is an Executive Director in the Corporate Advisory business.
With more than 10 years of investment banking experience, Simon has worked on a wide range of public and private M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory assignments in the United States and Australia.
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David Fiora
Executive Director, Melbourne
David joined Gresham in 2014 and has over 11 years experience in investment banking and corporate finance. David previously worked with Macquarie in Sydney and Perth.
David has experience within various industry sectors including infrastructure, energy, resources, oil and gas, agriculture, forestry, real estate and industrials and across both ECM and M&A transactions.
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Michael Smith
Executive Director, Perth
Michael has experience advising across a range of corporate activities and strategic initiatives, including buy-side and sell-side, public and private, equity capital markets and capital management transactions. This includes advising clients across industries such as the retail, media, industrial, financial services, resources and energy sectors.
Oliver Zuk
Executive Director, Sydney
Oli’s experience extends across a broad range of sectors and corporate finance transactions, including private and public market M&A, mandates at a corporate and asset level as well as capital raising and securitisation assignments. Some of the major companies Oli has worked with include Asciano, Bank of Queensland, ING, Keystart, Lendlease, Thorn, Wesfarmers and Woodside,
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