5:30pm - 8:00pm, 22/09/10
Christine Nixon: Community Turnaround
Registration: 5.30pm - 6.00pmPresentation: 6.00pm - 7.00pm ...
5:15pm - 8:00pm, 28/09/10
Blue Sky Mining - Avoiding Boom Bear-traps
Registration: 5.15pm - 5.45pmPresentation: 5.45pm - 6.45pm ...
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WA Committee Chairman
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Cameron Belyea specialises in contested debt and capital restructuring, workouts, special situations assignments, banking and finance recoveries and litigation, commercial litigation, complex insolvencies and alternative dispute resolution. In recent times, Cameron has been involved in some of the most high-profile national restructuring and insolvency matters involving complex debt and derivative and other structured finance products.
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WA Committee Member
Ben Bartholomaeus
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Ben has practised as a corporate lawyer for more than six years and was previously a Senior Associate with leading Australian law firm, Clayton Utz. He holds a combined law and commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course. Ben also recently completed a Financial Services Institute of Australasia graduate certificate in Applied Finance and Investment. He brings to the Group valuable legal, corporate advisory and mergers and acquisitions expertise. Ben commenced with Wyllie Group on 1 August 2006.
Phil practises in the area of commercial litigation and specialises in the area of turnaround and insolvency law. He advises insolvency practitioners, banks, creditors, purchasers of distressed assets and borrowers in relation to their rights and obligations where an entity is in financial difficulty. Clients benefit from his knowledge of corporate reconstructions and the various insolvency regimes including administrations, receiverships and liquidations. Phil also advises clients in the resolution of complex commercial disputes.
Phil is also a member of the Western Australian Division of the Insolvency Practitioners Association.
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WA Committee Member
David Gilbert
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David Gilbert is a career banker, who has worked for the Commonwealth bank since 1982. David has worked in a variety of roles including; Investigating Accountant at the Development Bank, Relationship Manager, Credit Approvals, and as a manager at Credit Management Unit. At Credit Management, David has worked on a number of high profile Administrations, together with formulating risk improvement strategies and working closely with customers to improve their risk profiles.
David is currently working in the Bank’s Corporate Financial Services Section in Perth, and his role includes the structuring of complex loan facilities. David is also a CPA.
Gordon is a Vice President in Merrill Lynch's Investment Banking Group with nine years corporate advisory experience in mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings. Gordon has worked on a wide variety of Australian and cross boarder transactions for clients in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Infrastructure and General Industrial sectors.
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WA Committee Member
Matthew Woods
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Matthew joined KPMG in March 2009. Matthew has over 16 years specialising in advising companies, directors, providers of debt and equity and other stakeholders on distressed businesses, assets and special situations. Prior to joining KPMG Matthew was the Managing Director of a boutique corporate consulting and investment company that consulted to and invested in distressed large private and small capped public companies. Prior to that, Matthew was a partner in a mid tier National Accounting Firm, specialising in Corporate Recovery and Formal Insolvency appointments.