Charbel Nader is an Australian investment banker who was the architect of 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] 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.[11][12] In 2015 he oversaw and managed the sale of the remaining 50% interest in Metro Media Holdings for $72m.[13][14][15]
In August 2014 he helped lead a consortium to acquire Madman Entertainment from troubled toy wholesaler Funtastic Ltd (whose major shareholders include Lachlan Murdoch, Gerry Harvey and Craig Mathieson .[16][17][18][19][20]
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- ^ "Packer Underwrites LLA Rescue". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 June 2008.
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- ^ "BHP, Mitsubishi in $2.5b coal deal". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 July 2008.
- ^ "Packer Underwrites LLA rescue". Australian Financial Review(reproduced).
- ^ "Lifeline out to battling LLA". Australian Financial Review (reproduced).
- ^ "Packer steps up for LLA". Australian Financial Review(reproduced).
- ^ "Australia Acquisition Corp. ("AAC"); and Harbinger Capital Partners LLC ("HCP") announced today". Marketwire. 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012.
- ^ "Fairfax to merge community papers with rival". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 December 2011.
- ^ "Board Members". Metro Media Publishing. 9 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
- ^ "Fairfax Media pays $72 million to buy back its Melbourne real estate ad revenues". Property Observer. 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Metro Media agents back the Domain Group". 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Bloomberg". Bloomberg. 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Madman Sale Closed". Inside Film. 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Madman: gets the keys to its own asylum". Screen Arts Hub. 1 August 2014.
- ^ "IMG Global". IMG Global. 1 August 2016.
- ^ "BIO". bio. 12 September 2016.
- ^ "United Networks Directors BIO". 1 June 2017.