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David Feetham

Managing Director and CEO

Tel: +61 2 9221 5133
Fax: +61 2 9221 6814

Level 17, 167 Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

David is a Managing Director and the CEO of Gresham's corporate advisory business, Gresham Advisory Partners Limited.

Under his leadership, this business has grown from seven executives in 1995 to be the market-leading independent investment bank in mergers & acquisitions. In this period, Gresham has successfully executed well over 100 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $250 billion, participated in many of the largest and most complex transactions in Australian history and grown its corporate advisory team to 35 executives with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

David has 25 years experience in M&A with personal involvement in over 130 advisory assignments. Most recently, these have included the offer by BHP Billiton for Rio Tinto, the proposed BHP/Rio iron ore joint venture, the offer by BG Group for Origin Energy and the acquisition of Coles Group by Wesfarmers - Australia's largest completed transaction ($20bn).

David has had a significant involvement in the global resources sector consolidation having acted in assignments involving companies producing coking and steam coal, oil, gas, iron ore, bauxite, alumina, aluminium, nickel, gold, copper and uranium. These completed assignments have included acting for: BG Group in its acquisition of Pure Energy; Guangdong Rising Asset Management in its acquisition of a strategic stake in PanAust; Billiton in the merger of BHP and Billiton (Australia's then largest ever transaction); Xstrata in its offer for WMC Resources; MIM in its acquisition by scheme of arrangement by Xstrata; Billiton in its offer to acquire Gove Alumina, the merger of its nickel interests with QNI and its acquisition of QNI.

Beyond the resources sector, David has also led major transactions in the property, finance, health, industrial, engineering and contracting, transport and food and beverage sectors. These transactions have included hostile and recommended takeover offers and defences; takeovers and mergers by scheme of arrangement; cross-border mergers via the formation of a dual listed company; reconstructions; financial structuring; refinancing and equity and debt capital raisings; business and asset sales and purchases; the formation of joint ventures and the provision of strategic advice.

David has been regularly named in reviews and short lists of the country’s leading investment bankers.

Before joining Gresham Partners, David spent 9 years with Macquarie Bank in Sydney (including two years on secondment to Hill Samuel Bank in London) and a further three years as a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie.

David holds Bachelors degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney.