Capital Solutions

Sebastien McKenna
Managing Director and Head of Debt Advisory, Sydney
Sebastien is Managing Director and Head of Advisory.
Sebastien joined Gresham in 2016 from Grant Samuel where he was a Director and key member of the Capital Advisory team based in Sydney. Sebastien played a significant role in an extensive number of capital advisory engagements for clients such as Caltex Australia, Iluka Resources, Qube Holdings, Leighton Holdings, Mainfreight, Whitehaven Coal, Telstra, APN News & Media, Fairfax, G8 Education, Navitas, WEL Networks, Ausdrill, Cardno, The University of Sydney, Nufarm, and the restructuring of Emeco and Slater + Gordon.
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Gary Head
Managing Director and Head of Equity Solutions, Sydney
Gary is Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital Solutions.
Gary joined Gresham from UBS where he has over 30 years’ experience in equity markets, as Global Head of Cash Equities (2014-2018) and prior to that as Australian Head of Equities (2010-2014). Over his career he has worked and lived in Melbourne, Sydney and London.
Gary has been heavily involved in UBS’s capital market transactions in Australia and Globally involving structuring, pricing, underwriting, distribution and risk management since 2007.

Dare Whalley
Executive Director, Sydney
Dare is an Executive Director in the Gresham Debt Solutions team in Sydney.
Dare has over 25 years’ corporate finance and banking experience across the infrastructure, utilities, renewable energy, defence, waste and services sectors. During his career, Dare held the position of Group Treasurer at Broadspectrum Limited and Prime Infrastructure and Assistant Treasurer of TXU Australia. In his roles at ANZ Banking Group and Westpac Banking Corporation, he was responsible for client coverage predominantly in the Infrastructure and Utilities sectors, his clients included APA, Origin Energy, AGL, Snowy Hydro and Infigen.
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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.
Recent transactions that Stephen has advised on include: Bank of Queensland’s acquisition of Investec Bank Australia...
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