Charbel Nader

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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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