Bryan Pearson

Known for his critical thinking, decision making and commercial judgement, Bryan is a respected and trusted advisor, who is results focused, collaborative and consistently strives to set the standard.

A high integrity individual who values trust and transparency, Bryan brings innovative thinking and global experience to help solve old problems in new ways.

He has over 17 years’ experience in investment banking having advised listed and unlisted corporates, private equity, high net worth individuals and governments on over $45 billion worth of transactions across Australia, North America, Europe and Asia. He has also provided a range of non-transaction specific advice, as part of trusted advisor relationships.

Before joining 333 Capital, Bryan was a Managing Director at Greenhill & Co in Australia and prior to that spent eight years at CIBC World Markets in London.

Bryan’s areas of expertise include Acquisitions, divestitures and business combinations; complex negotiations, strategic, financial and tactical advice; capital management, debt and equity capital markets advice; restructurings, capital raisings; and investor/stakeholder management (internal and external).

Significant engagements

• Buy-side advisor to Bain Capital on its acquisition of Virgin Australia
• Sale of a controlling interest in Resilium to Ardonagh Group Ltd (UK)
• Sale of Connective to ASX listed Australian Finance Group (pending)
• Structure and sale of Suncorp owned Resilium to Management
• Retail Food Group (Restructure and Refinance)
• Advisor to LogiCamms on its merger with OSD via scrip acquisition
• Tabcorp on it’s domestic and international media rights deals and contemporaneous pay-TV deal with Foxtel
• Sinclair Knight Merz on its recommended merger with Jacobs Engineering, Inc. ($1.3 billion)
• Commonwealth of Australia on the development of IMEX interstate Intermodal Terminal at Moorebank ($1.0 billion) 
• Suncorp on the sale of a portfolio of non-performing loans to Goldman Sachs ($1.6 billion)
• Coal Allied acquisition by Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi (AUD 10.6 billion)
• Centrebet on the acquisition by Sportingbet PLC ($183 million)
• Elders on the sale of Rural Bank to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank 
• Sale of Tyndell Asset Management to Nikko Asset Management 
• Elders on its comprehensive debt restructuring and recapitalisation ($1.5 billion) and associated equity raising ($550 million)
• Lion Nathan on Kirin’s acquisition of the business ($8.2 billion).