Professional Qualifications

Areas of expertise

• Advised Pike River Coal Limited on its 2010 equity issue
• Advised the Trustee of Geneva Finance Limited on the first moratorium under the 2009 Moratorium Regulations
• Advised a participant in the CanWest Media Works (NZ) Limited takeover
• Advised Finzsoft Solutions Limited in response to a partial takeover offer by Pi Capital Investments (FS) Limited
• Advised Viking Capital Limited on a special meeting to authorise an exercise of warrants in compliance with the Takeovers Code, the purchase of Investment Research Group Limited, and shareholder approvals authorising transactions in ICP Biotechnology Limited
• Advised Yahoo!7 on its joint venture with Telecom
• Advised TrustPower on Infratil's purchase of Alliant's shareholding in TrustPower
• Advised Viking Capital Limited on its initial public offering and listing on the NZAX and subsequent transactions
• Acted for Bank of New Zealand in relation to its Basel II Accreditation Application
• Advised UBS New Zealand Limited as Lead Manager, on Babcock Brown Limited's $150 million issue of subordinated notes exchangeable for ordinary shares
• Advised Perpetual Trust Limited, as trustee, on Macquarie Goodman Property Trust's $112.7 million institutional placement of units
• Advised (jointly with Minter Ellison) BrainZ Instruments Limited on an IPO that involved listing on the ASX (but not NZSX)
• Advised a bidder for Carter Holt Harvey Limited on takeovers code, disclosure and other corporate issues
• Advised on the dual listing of APN News & Media Limited on the New Zealand Stock Exchange
• Advised 42 Below Limited on its initial public offering and listing
• Advised News & Media NZ Limited in relation to its issue of $225 million of cumulative exchangeable preference shares
• Advised Perpetual Trust Limited, as trustee, on Blue Star Group's $50 million subordinated note issue
• Advised UnitedNetworks Limited on the $1.5 billion sale of its shares to VECTOR, and the associated asset sales to Powerco and Hawkes Bay Network
• Advised Wilson & Horton Holdings Limited on the restructuring of its parent company Independent News & Media plc's Australasian interests. The restructuring involved the sale of Wilson & Horton Limited to APN News & Media Limited to create one of the leading media companies in Australasia
• Advised UnitedNetworks Limited on the $71.5 million sale of its maintenance and small operations works program to Siemens which was associated with a subsequent seven year services contract worth around $500m
• Advised Apache Corporation (one of the largest independent American oil companies) on its successful joint bid with Shell to purchase Fletcher Challenge Limited's energy division for $4 billion
• Advised Frucor Beverages Group Limited (the manufacturers of the energy drink V, as well as a host of other New Zealand icon brand beverages) on its listing and public offering of 50.1% of its shares

• Submission on Review of Securities Law Discussion Paper: June 2010        
  (Submission dated 20 August 2010)
• "Shareholder primacy remains the key to good corporate governance" New Zealand Herald - July 2010 Accountability Far Too important to be left to Director's to decide
• TV3 ASB Business program interview on new requirements for finance company moratorium' - August 2009
  Allan McRae talks to Michael Wilson about the changes
• Moratorium Proposals - August 2009
• "How to profit from a drunkards walk?" New Zealand Investor Magazine - 2009 A History of Investment Theory