We are proud to announce Buddle Findlay partner and Board member Sarah McEwan has been appointed as a member of the New Zealand Takeovers Panel.
Sarah has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities transactions and corporate advisory and governance matters.
Sarah joins fellow corporate lawyer Michael Pollard from Simpson Grierson as new members of the Takeovers Panel, being an independent Crown entity established under the Takeovers Act. The Panel’s mandate is to strengthen investor confidence in New Zealand’s capital markets by enforcing the Takeovers Code and providing oversight of schemes of arrangement involving Code companies. The Code and the Panel’s oversight of schemes of arrangement ensure that all shareholders have a fair opportunity to participate in control change transactions (such as takeovers, mergers, acquisitions and allotments) in Code companies.
Incoming Chair, Anna Buchly welcomed the appointments, noting: "We are delighted to welcome Michael and Sarah to the Panel. Their wealth of experience in complex public market transactions will strengthen the Panel's ability to safeguard fairness and integrity in New Zealand's takeovers market."
Buddle Findlay congratulates Sarah on this well-deserved appointment.
