ANNUAL REPORT 2004

MEMBERS OF THE TAKEOVERS PANEL


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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.
 

David Jones. 		 

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.
 

Denis Byrne. 		 

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.
 
Anthony Frankham.  

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.
 
Colin Giffney.  

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.
 
Alastair Lawrence.  

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.
 
Kevin O'Connor.  

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.  

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.
 
Daphne Rawstorne.  

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.
 
Sue Suckling.  

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.


EXECUTIVE OF THE TAKEOVERS PANEL

Kerry Morrell, Senior Executive Officer
Marion Hemphill, Counsel to the Panel
Angela Doone, Solicitor
David Tsai, Solicitor
Nigel Brunsdon, Accountant
Catherine Chapman, Communications Manager


HOW TO CONTACT US

Takeovers Panel
Level 8, Unisys House
56 The Terrace
Wellington

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