Tom Lingard Managing Director UBS AG

Tom Lingard is a Managing Director in UBS AG’s Australian investment banking business, with responsibility for healthcare and emerging companies across both M&A and equity capital markets. Tom has lead over $5 billion of equity capital markets transactions and over $15 billion in M&A transactions.

Recent transactions include advising:

• Healius Ltd on its response to the $3bn+ unsolicited takeover proposal by Partners Group and the subsequent sale of its primary care business for $500m
• Automotive Holdings on its $2bn+ merger with AP Eagers
• Sirtex Medical on its $1.9bn acquisition by CDH Investments and China Grand Pharma

Michael Lion General Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development ORIGIN ENERGY

Michael is currently the General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Development at Origin Energy and oversees Origin’s M&A, strategy and investment management activities. Michael has been at Origin since 2009 and has held various other roles covering M&A, treasury and business development activities. Prior to Origin Michael worked in private equity and corporate advisory and holds a Bachler of Commerce (Hons) from the University of NSW.

William Smales Global Head of Private Markets H.R.L. MORRISON & CO.

William is currently based in our Sydney office and is a member of the Investment and Management Committees. William is responsible for Morrison & Co's infrastructure and long term private equity investment on behalf of Morrison & Co's clients. William has extensive investment experience across a number of industry sectors. Immediately prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2013, William spent seven years with The Carlyle Group where he was a principal in the firm investing in Europe and North America. William is a director of CDC Data Centres, Vodafone NZ and Longroad Energy.

Tom Story Partner ALLENS

Tom Story is an M&A partner who leads the Allens Corporate practice group and is co-head of the Allens' Private Equity team. He is regularly sought out by leading companies and sponsors globally to advise on their most complex and significant acquisitions and divestments in the Australian market.

Tom is consistently recognised in both Chambers Asia-Pacific and Chambers Global as one of Australia's leading M&A and private equity lawyers. He is regarded as a strategic adviser to the private equity sector, with clients commenting: "I rate Tom very highly, I think he is a leader in Private Equity law in Australia. He talks with conviction, we trust his guidance".

Tim Strachan Head of Sales APAC Ansarada

Tim Strachan has worked with technology and innovation initiatives across a variety of sectors for the last 20 years. Having launched several market leading automation and workflow technologies across the legal sector, Tim now drives the Asia & Oceania sales engine for Ansarada; bringing key advisor and corporate clients to the threshold of standardised transaction management through the power of automation for competitive advantage.

Maggie Lu Yueyang Bureau Chief, Australia/New Zealand MERGERMARKET

Maggie is Mergermarket’s Australia Bureau Chief, leading a team of journalists across Australia and New Zealand to write about corporate growth strategies, M&A deals, PE buyouts, cross-border M&A intelligence, as well as data-backed analysis and trend pieces.

Working closely with her colleagues around world, she has been leading the Australian bureau’s cross-border coverage, particularly between Australia and Asia. She also acts as a coordinator on the ground in Australia to facilitate cross-product collaboration between Mergermarket and other sister publications under Acuris, including DealReporter, Inframation and PaRR.

She previously worked at The Australian and Reuters, starting her Australian journalism career in the Press Gallery in Canberra. Maggie has been based in Sydney since 2013.