John Hobson
Founder and Partner
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John has extensive financial markets experience in Australia, Asia and New York, gained across senior investment banking, corporate and funds management roles. He was a top ranking bank analyst with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in Asia and also worked with and consulted to Macquarie Group.
He has worked on numerous transactions including capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. Transactions include equity raisings totalling over $2.1 billion, restructuring $2.7 billion of debt for Loy Yang A power station, a $600 million A$ Medium Term Note issue and a $650 million subordinate note issue. His expertise extends across the entire spectrum of the capital structure.
He also has broad stakeholder engagement experience from his time as General Manager, Capital Markets at AGL Energy Limited and as Head of Investor Relations at Brambles Limited, where he worked on a number of challenging issues, including coal seam gas, CO2 emissions, executive remuneration, asset impairment and shareholder resolutions.
John has broad industry experience covering energy and utilities, logistics, transport, banking and financials. Drawing on his international business background John now advises companies and boards on stakeholder engagement, investor relations, transaction-specific communications, continuous disclosure and corporate governance and assists in transaction execution.
His publications include Will Capital be the next Battleground? (AICD’s Company Director magazine), Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions (Corporate Governance International), and Return on Equity in a Low Inflationary Environment (Economics Society of Australia Journal).
He was Chairman of the Australasian Investor Relations Association from 2009 to 2011 and became a Fellow of the association in 2015.
John holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Macquarie University’s Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. He has also completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors course.