Look Who’s Talking (no. 2)
Shemara Wikramanayake
on the journey of a lawyer in investment banking
with Steven Glanz and Ross Buckley
7 August 2008, 6pma
Baker & McKenzie
Level 27, AMP Centre
50 Bridge Street, Sydney
RSVP: lawalumni@unsw.edu.au

A UNSW Law Alumni Chapter Look Who’s Talking event, hosted by Baker & McKenzie. Bringing together alumni, lawyers, students and academics.

Shemara Wikramanayake
Macquarie Group investment banker and fund manager
Shemara has been Executive Director of Macquarie Group since 1997. She graduated from UNSW in 1985, joining Macquarie Bank’s Corporate Advisory team in 1987 where she spent 14 years advising on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and privatisations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. On formation of Macquarie’s Investment Bank in 2001, she took responsibility for reviewing all principal investments by the Investment Bank. In 2004, Shemara moved to New York to establish and run the Investment Bank’s specialised funds business, including infrastructure funds. Shemara has recently returned to Sydney and is now Group Head of Macquarie Funds Group and sits on the Macquarie Group Executive Committee.

With Steven Glanz
One of Baker & McKenzie’s most senior M&A partners
Steven Glanz is one of Baker & McKenzie’s most senior Mergers & Acquisitions partners and heads up the Corporate team for the Australian offices.. He joined Baker and McKenzie in 1978 and worked in the firm’s New York office from 1981 to 1982. Steven became a partner in 1984 and is currently Chairman of the Firm’s Asia Pacific M&A Committee and a member of the Global M&A Steering Committee. Steven graduated from UNSW in 1976.

And Ross Buckley
Expert authority on international banking and finance lawRoss has been a Professor of Law at UNSW since 2007, after leading a global trade and finance research centre at another University for six years. He consults to banks, finance houses and government departments, including the U.S. SEC and Department of Justice and the Indonesian and Vietnamese governments. Ross practised banking and finance law in Australia, Hong Kong and on Wall Street for nine years. He received a PhD in Law from UNSW in 1998 and an LL.D. from the University of Melbourne this year.