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CHAIRMAN
John King
Consultant with Russell McVeagh. Director of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand
Limited, Westpac (NZ) Investments Limited and The New Zealand Guardian Trust
Company Limited. Vice President of the Employers & Manufacturers Association
(Northern) Inc., and Deputy Chairman of the Spirit of Adventure Trust. Member
of the Council of the Auckland College of Education and the Council of Business
New Zealand. Chairman of the Panel since it was created in 1994 and previously of
the Takeovers Panel Advisory Committee. Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel. |
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DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
David Jones
Principal of Jones Young, Auckland, specialising in commercial and company law.
Personal adviser to the Minister of Justice on the company law reform programme
1991. Member of the Company Law Monitoring Group 1993. Lecturer in company
law for the Institute of Directors. Member of the Panel from its inception as an
advisory group. |
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MEMBERS
Denis Byrne
Brisbane-based commercial lawyer and company director. Member of the Australian
Takeovers Panel since 1997. Appointed to the New Zealand Takeovers Panel in
2001. Chair of the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation, Director of
Horticulture Australia Limited, Total Care Technologies Pty Limited, the Ball
Solutions Group of Companies (Australia) and Birkdale Nursery Holdings Pty Ltd.
Chair of the Queensland Gas Appeals Tribunal and the Dowlands College
Foundation, Member of the Starlight Children’s Foundation Advisory Board. |
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Anthony Frankham
Auckland-based independent financial analyst. Director of Frankham Lyne Limited,
Director of Auckland International Airport Limited, and a Director and Chairman
of New Zealand Experience Limited. Board Member of the Spirit of Adventure
Trust. Chairman of the Audit Office’s New Zealand Audit Committee and the
Institute of Chartered Accountants Disciplinary Tribunal. Life Member of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants. Appointed to the Panel in 2002. |
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Colin Giffney
Principal of Giffney & Jones, specialist corporate advisers. NZX broker and a
founding Member of the Market Surveillance Panel. Appointed to the Takeovers
Panel in 2001. |
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Alastair Lawrence
Auckland-based investment banker. Principal of Antipodes, a private investment
bank which provides specialist mergers and acquisitions advice, in addition to
private equity for emerging New Zealand companies. Director of Landcare
Research, and a number of private companies. Member of the Panel since 1994 and
prior to that a member of the Takeovers Panel Advisory Committee. |
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Kevin O’Connor
Wellington company director. Chairman of utilities investment company Infratil
Limited, director of a range of private companies and a previous Chairman of the
Market Surveillance Panel of the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Member of the
Panel since 1994. |
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David Quigg
Partner of Quigg Partners, barristers and solicitors of Wellington, specialising in
mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and corporate law. Lecturer in takeovers and
mergers and acquisitions law for the Institute of Directors. Member of the National
Board of the Institute of Directors. Appointed to the Panel in 2001. |
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Daphne Rawstorne
Wellington-based accountant, former Managing Partner of Deloitte, and Fellow of
the Institute of Directors. Company director and business consultant. Member of
the Panel since 1999. |
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Sue Suckling
South Island company director and business consultant. Chair of the National
Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, AgriQuality New Zealand Limited,
Baker Fruit Processors Limited, Carsons (SI) Limited, and The Oxford Clinic
Limited. Director of Westpac (NZ) Investments Limited and Farmlands. Appointed
to the Panel in 2002. |
