Jenny Seabrook is one of Western Australia’s most senior and experienced non-executive directors.
Subsequent to joining Gresham Partners in 1998, Ms Seabrook has worked on a variety of mergers, acquisitions and capital structuring advisory transactions. These have included the sales of Wesfarmers' interest in the Australian Railroad Group, HSBC’s Australian online broking business and margin lending book; the structuring of the buyback rights for West Australian Newspapers; the restructuring of ownership interests in the Heytesbury Group; being a member of the advisory team for the successful takeovers of Coles and Howard Smith, acting on the defence of Tethyan Copper and JDV Limited, advising Wesfarmers on the capital raisings associated with the purchase of Coles, and advising RACWA on the purchase of Suncorp’s interest in RAC Insurance Ltd, and the St Ives Group.
Before joining Gresham Partners, Ms Seabrook worked with Hartley Poynton, HSBC Group and Touche Ross on a range of transactions which gave her exposure to capital markets, debt markets and valuation issues.
She is a non-executive director of listed entities including IRESS Market Technology and Iluka Resources, and of unlisted entities including Bank of Western Australia and the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation. Previous non-executive directorships include Western Power, Australia Postal Corporation, Amcor, Bank of Western Australia, West Australian Newspapers Holdings and Alinta Gas.
Ms Seabrook is a member of ASIC’s External Advisory Group and was a member of the Takeovers Panel from 2000 to 2012.
She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia and is a chartered accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, and a Senior Fellow of FINSIA.
