Charbel Nader

Charbel Nader is an Australian investment banker who first came to prominence through a number of innovative Film Financing transactions in the 1990s the most notable being a series of Village Roadshow off balance sheet film financings which funded Films such as The Matrix series and Ocean's Eleven in conjunction with Warner Bros.[1]

After a successful stint in Sydney with News Corp's Venture capital vehicle e-Ventures and PBL/Nine Network where he was responsible for the Macquarie Nine Film raising; a joint endeavour between the Nine Network and Macquarie bank he returned to Melbourne as Managing Director of McHudson Corporate.

In June 2007 he was recruited by Pitt Capital Partners.[2][3][4] to head up and establish a Melbourne office of the Investment Bank[5] which is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of Australia's oldest publicly listed corporations Washington H. Soul Pattinson which also owns 61% of New Hope Coal Limited.[6]

He is credited with leading the Pitt Capital Partners Limited team that successfully completed the $236m debt and equity recapitalisation of Living and Leisure Australia (ASX: LLA) (originally managed by MFS/Octaviar), the only successful mid cap recapitalisation completed in 2008, at the height of the global credit crisis.[7][8][9]

He is a Founder and Executive Vice President of Australia Acquisition Corp.,[10] Deputy Chairman of ASX listed b2b media and events company Aspermont Ltd.[11] He is also (founding) Chairman of Metro Media Holdings Pty Ltd, publisher of The Weekly Review, and was instrumental in its merger with Fairfax Community News Network in December 2011.[12][13] In 2015 he oversaw and managed the sale of the remaining 50% interest in Metro Media Holdings for $72m. [14][15]

References

  1. ↑ "LLA rescue has a Roadshow sub-plot" (PDF). Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Australian Leverage Finance Forum". Finance Forum.
  3. ↑ "advisers-revel-in-origin-largesse". Crikey.com.au.
  4. ↑ "Packer Underwrites LLA Rescue". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Packer's playtime". Business Spectator. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
  6. ↑ "BHP, Mitsubishi in $2.5b coal deal". Sydney Morning Herald. 2008-07-18.
  7. ↑ "Packer Underwrites LLA rescue". Australian Financial Review(reproduced).
  8. ↑ "Lifeline out to battling LLA". Australian Financial Review (reproduced).
  9. ↑ "Packer steps up for LLA". Australian Financial Review(reproduced).
  10. ↑ "Australia Acquisition Corp. ("AAC"); and Harbinger Capital Partners LLC ("HCP") announced today". Marketwire. 2012-07-11.
  11. ↑ "Board of Directors". Aspermont Ltd.
  12. ↑ "Fairfax to merge community papers with rival". Sydney Morning Herald. 2011-12-23.
  13. ↑ "Board Members". Metro Media Publishing. 2013-10-09.
  14. ↑ "Fairfax Media pays $72 million to buy back its Melbourne real estate ad revenues". Property Observer. 2015-01-13.
  15. ↑ "Metro Media agents back the Domain Group". Metro Media. 2015-01-13.


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