Robert Fraser (Syd)
Managing Director TC Corporate (B Ec LLB Hons)
Robert Fraser has 27 years of investment banking experience, including with a major merchant bank. Robert advises numerous public companies and is also a non-executive director of ARB Corporation Limited (including Chairman of its Audit and Nomination and Remuneration Committees), FFI Holdings Limited and is the Senior Independent Director of Magellan Financial Group Limited (including Chairman of its Audit and Risk Committee). He is also a licensed business broker and a licensed real estate agent. Robert is highly skilled in takeovers and mergers, acquisitions and divestments, capital management, corporate governance and financial analysis, including experience in the areas of corporate strategy, valuation, financing, taxation and trade practices.
Contact: rfraser@tccorporate.com.au
Craig Ball (Adl)
Director TC Corporate (B Ec CA)
Craig Ball is Executive Director of Corporate Finance with Taylor Collison Limited. Craig has been broking since 1987 and has been responsible for numerous IPOs, underwritings and placements for companies across a broad cross section of industries including resources, oil and gas, automotive, biotech, wine, manufacturing and industrial companies. Craig is also a chartered accountant.
Contact: cball@taylorcollison.com.au
Matt Davies
Executive Director (B Ec LLB)
Matt is an Executive Director in our Adelaide office.
He has ~15 years of investment banking experience, much of which was in the natural resources sector.
Matt has significant experience in public market M&A (including defence), asset sales and capital raisings. Matthew was the 1st employee of Gryphon Partners, a leading boutique advisory firm to the resources sector which undertook >65 transactions valued at >$25 billion in 8 years. He was integral in growing the business until its acquisition by Standard Chartered in 2011.
Before joining Taylor Collison in February 2017, Matthew headed Standard Chartered Bank’s Australian Natural Resources, M&A team where he undertook several high profile cross-border transactions in the sector.
Contact: mdavies@taylorcollison.com.au
George Stavrou
Executive Director
George is an Executive Director in our Adelaide office.
George has over 15 years of corporate advisory experience in industrial and consumer markets across a broad range of sectors including manufacturing, retail, engineering & mining services, tourism & leisure, food & beverages, automotive and healthcare.
He has advised both listed and private companies on mergers, acquisitions (including takeovers and defence mandates), trade sales, valuations, equity capital raisings and strategic reviews.
Prior to joining Taylor Collison, George worked for Caliburn Partnership (now Greenhill), a Sydney based boutique advisory firm where he worked on large scale public M&A transactions before joining KPMG as the Head of Public Market Transactions.
Contact: gstavrou@taylorcollison.com.au
Michael Cawley (Syd)
Equity Capital Markets (B Comm CA)
Michael is responsible for the execution of Equity Capital Markets transactions in our Sydney office. He has over 15 years of experience advising listed and unlisted corporations in relation to their capital requirements and has completed numerous initial public offerings, secondary placements, rights issues and capital management advisory assignments. Michael is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Western Australia.
Contact: mcawley@taylorcollison.com.au
Christopher Still (Syd)
Executive Director (B Ec MBA)
Christopher has more than 30 years experience in providing corporate and financial advice to governments and corporations. He specialises in providing merger, acquisition and equity capital markets advice primarily to small and mid-cap industrial companies and private equity investors.
Contact: cstill@tccorporate.com.au
Daniel Eddington (Adl)
Corporate Advisor (B Comm)
Daniel is an Executive in our Adelaide office. His background includes 18 years experience in the financial markets and across several segments of the resource sector both in Australia and Overseas. He has been responsible for IPO’s, placements, reverse takeovers and underwritings for companies predominantly in the resource sector. He has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from The University of South Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Contact:
deddington@taylorcollison.com.au
Simon Doherty (Syd)
Corporate Finance (B. Comm CA)
Simon specialises in equity capital markets and corporate advisory at Taylor Collison, he commenced his career at PwC in M&A and Corporate Advisory roles, following which he worked in equity capital markets and institutional/high net worth stock broking. Simon has been responsible for IPO’s, placements, reverse takeovers and underwritings for companies across numerous sectors and has sourced capital from Australia and offshore with a particular focus on Asian based investors. Simon is a Charted Accountant, completed a Bachelor of Commerce with a Business Law Minor at the University of Western Australia and has a Graduate Certificate in Mineral Economics from the WA School of Mines.
Contact: sdoherty@taylorcollison.com.au
Richard Amland
Executive Director
Richard Amland is an Executive Director in our Sydney office. Richard has more than 15 years’ experience working in equity markets, as a Research Analyst and Equity Capital Markets professional. He helped build Petra Capital’s emerging industrial company research and ECM capabilities from 2010 to 2014. Richard was a member of TC Corporate from 2008-2010 and worked on a number of mergers and acquisitions and ECM transactions during that time. Prior to 2008, Richard’s career included membership on highly ranked research teams at JPMorgan and Wilson HTM in the Australian emerging company space and on the Institutional Investor ranked financial services team at UBS in New York. Richard earned his MBA at Georgetown University and holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics.
contact: ramland@tccorporate.com.au
Reece Boroughs
Corporate Adviser (B Acc)
Reece Boroughs is an Adelaide based Corporate Adviser with Taylor Collison. He has over 10 years of corporate advisory and accounting experience, having previously worked in a Chartered Accounting practice environment in Adelaide (HLB Mann Judd). He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of South Australia and has previously held the position of Assistant Company Secretary for several ASX listed entities. He has advised numerous listed companies on mergers and acquisitions, as well as equity capital market transactions across a variety of industries.
Contact: rboroughs@taylorcollison.com.au
Marcus Hamilton
Corporate Adviser (LLB/BCom)
Marcus joined Taylor Collison in 2014 and has over 3 years experience in equities research, primarily focussing on companies in the telecommunications, technology and small industrial sectors. Marcus holds a combined Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, majoring in Corporate and Investment Finance.
Contact:
mhamilton@taylorcollison.com.au
Geoff Bannister
Corporate Advisor (B Comm LLB)
Geoff is a Corporate Advisor based in Adelaide with over 7 years of investment and institutional banking experience predominantly in the natural resource sector.
Before joining Taylor Collison in November 2017, Geoff was a member of Standard Chartered Bank’s Australian Natural Resources, M&A team based in Adelaide and Commonwealth Bank’s Institutional Banking & Markets Natural Resources team based in Perth.
Geoff holds a combined Bachelor of Law (Honours) and Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Adelaide.
Contact: gbannister@taylorcollison.com.au
Henry Chow
Corporate Advisor (BFin(Hons) BComm CA)
Henry is an Adelaide based Corporate Advisor with over 7 years of experience specialising in executing M&A transactions.
Before joining Taylor Collison in 2018, Henry worked in the M&A teams at KPMG and Grant Thornton.
Henry is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Finance and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Adelaide.