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An emotional Bill Johnston has used his valedictory speech to parliament to thank the state's business leaders for their support over his career, while calling out the state of modern politics

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Sophie Hancock, Sabina Shugg, Cliff Winby, Matt Fulton, Steve Lawrence, Neil Hamilton, Jennifer Seabrook and Stuart MacNaughton.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss changes at BGC, APM and Austal ownership, Quintis in receivership, and home market data.

BGC chairman Neil Hamilton has stepped down after more than five years in the role, with Jennifer Seabrook taking his place as the board continues to pursue a sale of the business.

Stockbroking firm Hartleys has confirmed it is in advanced merger discussions with listed rival Euroz. If the merger proceeds, it would add to a string of changes among Perth's top corporate finance dealmakers.

BGC Australia has appointed international building industry veteran Daniel Cooper as its new chief executive, with Alan Tate to transition back to the role of chief financial officer after several months at the helm of the construction and contracting giant.

BGC Australia has deferred indefinitely the sale of its core building materials and construction business because of weak market conditions but is pressing ahead with the sale of its contracting business and property assets.

SPECIAL REPORT: BGC Australia and Perron Group are going through changes that all family-owned businesses face, large or small.

The planned sale of BGC Australia has taken another step forward with the appointment of investment bank Macquarie Capital as corporate adviser to the family-owned business.

BGC Australia has appointed three high profile independent non-executive directors to help advise the family-owned business empire as it enters a global sale process.

SPECIAL REPORT: A new corporate advisory firm working from a historic building in West Perth has rapidly made an impact, advising on more than a dozen transactions for public and private companies.

Kasbah Resources has appointed Evan Spencer as chief operating officer following the resignation of Michael Kitney. Mr Spencer was chief executive of Asian Mineral Resources.

This year's Business News Rising Stars award winner, Seqta, has concluded a capital raising with support from a number of high-profile investors, including Mineral Resources chief executive Chris Ellison and chairman Peter Wade, Revel Systems investor Sean Tomlinson and Navitas co-founder Peter Larsen.

The upcoming float of livestock exporter Wellard is set to be the fifth biggest in Western Australia's history, and will also stretch the market lead of investment bank UBS, according to research by Business News.

Some of Perth's top company directors and dealmakers, including Michael Smith, Ian Cochrane, Michael Ashforth and Tony Iannello have been recruited to help run prominent family companies.

Karl Simich and his team at Sandfire Resources could be calling for the Dom Perignon in a few days if the local copper mining favourite achieves the once unthinkable and overtakes the stock market value of its potential predator, OZ Minerals.

Perth company director Neil Hamilton intends to resign from the board of Miclyn Express Offshore, after a heated dispute with the company's two major shareholders over their governance practices.

This year's candidates again proved what a wealth of talent we have in WA.

Competition in the state's investment banking sector is hotter than ever despite a fall-off in takeover deals and capital raisings last year.

Local players in the corporate finance market faced more competition than ever before from big national and international firms, WA Business News' 2011 survey has found.

Mount Gibson Iron chairman Geoff Hill has secured final control of the iron ore miner's board, after the last of his critics, Craig Readhead, resigned today.

The controversy over director independence at Mount Gibson Iron has taken another surprise twist, with a majority of the board resolving that one of its existing members should be reclassified as i

One day after being praised by chairman Geoff Hill at the company's annual meeting, iron ore miner Mount Gibson Iron has announced that managing director Luke Tonkin will step down from the role.

Mount Gibson Iron has announced the appointment of two new directors as the company's board grapples with a continuing rift over the independence of its chairman Geoff Hill.

The boardroom battles at Mt Gibson Iron took a strange twist this week, with the ASX's web site apparently showing that the three directors who opposed the recent election of new chairman Geoff Hil

Perth's leading non-executive directors consider the issues that are most important to them.

THE small number of women on the boards of Australia's leading companies is clearly at the forefront of the minds of leading Western Australian directors.

THE landscape has changed for Western Australians who want to be on the boards of national companies, according to some of the state's leading directors.

The chairman of Mount Gibson Iron, Neil Hamilton, is stepping down at the mining company's annual general meeting next week after a dispute with its major shareholders.

THE Australian Institute of Company Directors has enlisted the help of some of Western Australia's heavyweight directors in a new push to increase the number of women in the boardrooms of the nation's top listed companies.

Neil Hamilton maintains a low-key approach to his high-pressure role as a company director

A major board restructure at West Perth-based Mount Gibson Iron Ltd will see former Western Power boss Neil Hamilton take on the role of chairman, while former Aztec Resources Ltd managing director Peter Bilbe plans to stand down at the company AGM.