Michael Gayst joined Momentum Corporate in early 2004 after spending 11 years with ING Investment Banking and its predecessor firm, Baring Brothers Burrows & Co.
Michael has strong M&A and valuation experience, and has acted for clients in a range of sectors including Financial Services, Retail, Chemicals, Property and Manufacturing.
Michael’s key clients have included ING Group, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, Goodman Fielder, Westfield, HBOS Plc, Natwest Bank Plc, CSR, Email Limited, APS Chemicals, Energy Australia and Prudential.
Prior to joining Baring Brothers Burrows & Co. Michael worked with Coopers & Lybrand in their Corporate Services Division, where he worked on valuation, due diligence and litigation support assignments.
Michael’s corporate finance experience spans over 15 years, advising clients on a number of major transactions, most notably in recent years the ING ANZ funds management joint venture and NAB’s acquisition of MLC.
Lead advisory roles include:
- Keycorp, A$55m: Adviser to Keycorp on sale of TNS business to Telstra
- Metcash, A$1.0bn: Adviser to Metcash on acquisition of Foodland Australia by Scheme of Arrangement
- Video Ezy: Adviser on sale of majority shareholding
- Metcash, A$1.1bn: Adviser to Metcash on acquisition of Metoz Holdings
- Goodman Fielder, A$200m: Sale of Milling Australia to a Graincorp/Cargill Joint Venture
- ING Group, A$3,750m: Life insurance and funds management Joint Venture with ANZ
- National Australia Bank, A$115m: Acquisition of Deutsche Financial Planning
- National Australia Bank, A$4,560m: Acquisition of MLC from Lend Lease
- Email, A$900m: Response to the offer from Smorgon Steel
- Zeneca plc, A$350m: Adviser to Zeneca on the acquisition of Orica’s pharmaceutical business
- Strathfield Group, A$130m: Adviser on IPO
- Natwest Plc, A$130m: Sale of Australian Investment Banking business to Salomon Smith Barney
- Natwest Plc, A$105m: Sale of County Investment Management to National Australia Bank
- APS Chemicals, A$25m: Acquisition of Ajax chemicals
- Merger Planning Committee, n/a: Valuation report for the merger of Suncorp/Metway/QIDC
- New Britain Palm Oil, $A200m: Adviser to Vendor on IPO
- Australian Medical Enterprises, A$200m: Independent Expert’s Report on offer from Mayne Nickless
- Westfield Holdings, n/a: Independent Expert’s report for Westfield Holdings on a number of related party transactions
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