About Principal John Stewart has over 20 years of global M&A advisory experience across a range of sectors spanning Melbourne, New York and San Francisco John started his career in 1995 as an M&A lawyer first at Corrs in Melbourne and then at Fried Frank in NY (one of the premier NY M&A legal firms) In 2000, John moved to San Francisco and joined Thomas Weisel Partners, a startup investment bank focused on technology and growth companies. John was made a Managing Director in 2006 He then moved to JPMorgan in San Francisco as a senior member of the global technology M&A team In 2009 John returned to Australia as a generalist Managing Director at Lazard (2009 – 2012) and Gresham Partners (2013 – 2015) During 2015/1H2016 John was fulltime CEO of a large scale digital health startup, Health& Notable advisory transactions included Nasdaq’s US$1.8bn acquisition and financing of Instinet Group, CSR’s sale of Sucrogen to Wilmar (A$1.84bn), CKLifescience’s acquisition of Cheetham Salt from Ridley, BHP’s sale of Yeelirrie uranium project, ANZ sale of NZ payments business, Virgin Australia demerger of Virgin International, RBS sale of its investment bank to CIMB, multiple transactions for Melbourne IT John has a B.Com / LLB(Hons) from the University of Melbourne John can be contacted on +61 409 450 113 or john@stewartadvisory.com.au The Stewart Corporate Advisory Team includes other senior executives with significant experience, including a (semi) retired former EY partner