Professional Qualifications

Areas of expertise

Lex is involved in providing advice on corporate and infrastructure finance and has extensive experience in the area of corporate governance. He also advises companies regarding the impact of Government policy on their business and their ability to influence decision making by Ministers and public servants at the early stages of policy formulation. He has had wide experience in Asia.

Prior to joining the firm Lex was a non-executive director, and then the Australasian Managing Director, of the publicly listed Millennium & Copthorne/CDL Group which comprises New Zealand's largest hotel group and residential property developer. He was responsible for a major restructuring of the Group which arrested a five year pattern of declining earnings and revenues.

He returned to New Zealand and legal practice with another law firm in 1996 after living overseas for many years. He was an investment banker with Lloyds Bank International in Australia, NZ and the UK where he specialised in project financing. He has lived in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York where he was a Senior Vice President and Director at Bear Stearns and Co and CS First Boston with responsibility for their Asian investment banking and corporate finance operations. He also sat on the main board of National Mutual's (now AXA) banking group with oversight of its activities in Australasia, Asia and the UK, and spent a period of time at BNZ prior to the sale to NAB.