MEMBERS OF THE TAKEOVERS PANEL

CHAIRMAN

John King

Consultant with Russell McVeagh. Director of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited, WestpacTrust Investments Limited and the New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Limited. Board member of the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) Inc., the Spirit of Adventure Trust and a member of the Council of the Auckland College of Education. Chairman of the Panel since it was created in 1994 and previously of the Takeovers Panel Advisory Committee. Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel

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.

MEMBERS

Denis Byrne		Brisbane-based commercial lawyer specialising in corporate, infrastructure and resource matters. Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel since 1997. Appointed to the Panel in 2001.
Colin Giffney		Principal of Giffney & Jones, specialist corporate advisers. Previously partner and managing director of JB Were in New Zealand. Member of the New Zealand Stock Exchange and a founding member of the Market Surveillance Panel. Appointed to the Panel in 2001.
Alastair Lawrence		Auckland-based investment banker and principal of Antipodes, a private investment bank which provides specialist mergers and acquisitions advice in addition to private equity. Member of the Panel since 1993.
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.
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 Panel since 2001.
Daphne Rawstorne		Wellington-based accountant, former managing partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, company director and business consultant. Member of the Panel since 1999.

TAKEOVERS PANEL EXECUTIVE

Kerry Morrell, Senior Executive
Marion Hemphill, Senior Lawyer
Tim Dolan, Secretary to the Panel
Catherine Chapman, Communications Manager

HOW TO CONTACT US

Takeovers Panel
Level 12, Reserve Bank Building
2 The Terrace
Wellington

Phone (04) 471 4618
Fax (04) 471 4619
Email takeovers.panel@takeovers.govt.nz
www.takeovers.govt.nz