Clients want Corporate Development advisors who understand their industry to bring practical and innovative solutions. With several decades of mining industry experience, I have this understanding and, coupled with our people’s deep technical capability, can provide the advice to help clients achieve remarkable outcomes.
Principal – Mining, Financial Advisory
Will is a Corporate Development executive with a proven track record of developing strategy, driving organic and M&A growth and leading restructures working for companies across the mining industry.
His expertise spans business development, acquisitions, investments, JVs and lending across the transaction life cycle from strategy development, opportunity identification, relationship cultivation, negotiation, valuation, approvals, due diligence, documentation, and execution.
With years of experience successfully leading cross-functional, national and international teams he has built a substantial network across the mining industry including mining companies, service providers, investors and financiers.
Experience
- Thiess
- Developed the strategy to revitalise and grow the Thiess underground metals contract mining business
- Acquisition of Pybar, an underground metals mining contractor
- Investment in Cortex, Thiess’s first investment in a software company
- Austral Resources debt restructure and JV restructure in the Canadian Oil sands industry
- Noble
- Investment in the Middlemount coking coal mine and subsequent vend into ASX listed Gloucester Coal
- Investment, development, and project management of three Indonesian coal mine JV’s (Wira, Sanga Sanga, Morris) to supply its marketing activities
- Fortis Bank
- Debt facilities for several mining companies including MIM, Sino Mining Alumina and Consolidated Minerals
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma in Mineral Exploration Geoscience
- Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance
- Bachelor of Economics
- Affiliate of Chartered Accountants ANZ
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