Helen Zhi Dent Name Helen Zhi Dent (支巧玲) Position Director, China Business Practice Qualifications MBA (International Business), Birmingham University, The United Kingdom Experience Helen joined KPMG UK in 2005 focusing on UK – China investment flows. Her role was forming strategies for the UK China Practice, promoting KPMG to the Chinese investors, business development & sales and client relationship management. Helen’s work targeted major investors from China in financial services, communications, auto and other industrial sectors. Helen was responsible for looking after the key stakeholder relationships in the Chinese business community including the Chinese Embassy, China Chamber of Commerce, UKTI, and the China-Britain Business Council. Helen relocated to KPMG Australia’s Sydney office in November 2011 to bring her UK skills and help further develop client relationships with inbound Chinese investors and Chinese companies operating in Australia. National Director- China Practice Helen is very experienced in helping Chinese investors and understands their needs and work style. She has help build KPMG’s NSW-based Chinese client portfolio to over 50 clients since 2012 covering a wide range of sectors including financial services, agricultural, construction, mining, trading and real estate. Phone +61 2 9335 7059 Mobile 04279 62220 [email protected] Her clients include the major banks in Australia like Bank of China, ICBC, Agricultural Bank of China and China Construction Bank. Clients from other sectors include China Guangdong Nuclear Wind Power, Guangxi LiuGong Machinery, China Shipping, ChinaTex, GMP Pharmaceuticals, Hosen Capital, China Yuanda Industrial Group, UnionPay International, China Cotton, Snow Peak Mining, Longluck Investment, AIMS Financial Group. 0 Grant Whittaker Managing Director Queensland Phone: +61 7 3246 8807 Fax: +61 7 3229 5436 Email: [email protected] Mobile: +61 411 196 757 Qualifications: Associate of the Australian Property Institute Licensed Real Estate Agent Queensland Registered Valuer in Queensland No. 1890 Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Associate of the Real Estate Institute of Australia Mr Grant Whittaker was appointed the Managing Director of Knight Frank Australia’s Queensland office in 2001. He’s a member of the Knight Frank Australia Board, and a shareholder in Knight Frank Australia. Mr Whittaker is responsible for the day to day operations and performance of the Queensland office of Knight Frank, and this sees him involved in all parts of the business. In addition to this, Mr Whittaker is responsible for the coordination and growth of the Knight Frank Network throughout Australia and New Zealand. Mr Whittaker commenced his real estate career in the CBD Office Leasing Market in Brisbane in 1984 at Jones Lang Wooton. In his early years in the industry, Mr Whittaker worked in the brokerage leasing market and progressed to project leasing on buildings in the Brisbane CBD, during the strong development period of the 1980’s. Towards the end of the 1980’s Mr Whittaker moved into the Industrial property market working on the sale and lease of Industrial projects in Brisbane. This role, focussing on the southern Industrial suburbs of Brisbane, included providing development advice and assistance through pre leasing stages of major Industrial projects. In 1990 Mr Whittaker joined Baillieu Knight Frank to head up the Commercial and Industrial divisions. This role took responsibility for the management and performance of the Commercial and Industrial teams within Baillieu Knight Frank, and an active involvement in the sale of investment and development property. In 2001 Mr Whittaker was appointed Managing Director for Knight Frank Queensland, and joined the Knight Frank Australia Board shortly thereafter. This position requires Mr Whittaker to be involved in all aspects of the business, including sales, leasing, property management, and property marketing, as well as developing strategy and driving growth for the Queensland and Australian business. Developing and maintaining client relationships, and coordinating the profile of Knight Frank, also form part of his focus. Mr Whittaker has worked in the Queensland property market for more than 25 years, and has been involved in many projects for a variety of clients across the State. David Bell Partner Level 33 Waterfront Place 1 Eagle Street Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia T 07 3244 8051 F 07 3244 8999 M +61 438 709 548 [email protected] David Bell is a partner in our Brisbane office where he primarily practises in commercial property and infrastructure. David specialises in commercial property sales, acquisitions, leasing and developments, property trusts, significant infrastructure, resource and energy projects, tourist and other special facilities developments. He has extensive experience in property related insolvency workouts and distress sales of commercial and rural property and businesses, both for receivers and managers and administrators, and has acted for major banks and insolvency practitioners appointed by those banks. Representative matters • • • • • • • • • • South Bank Corporation on the continued development of the master planned, mixed use urban precinct, including the ABC, SW1, Rydges Hotel and South Point developments Tollroads – part of the teams who advised the successful bidder for the PPP for the Clem7 tunnel, Brisbane, an unsuccessful bidder for the Airport Link tunnel and for the acquisition of the Queensland Motorways tollroads Acted on all 5 Queensland Government asset sales, being the acquisition of Forestry Plantations Queensland by Hancock Timber Resource Group, the financing of the successful bidder for Port of Brisbane, the financing of a bid for the Abbot Point Coal Export Terminal (T1), the IPO for Aurizon (formerly QR National) and QIC’s acquisition of Queensland Motorways Limited Advising on the transition of South Bank & Roma Street parkland ownership from the Queensland State Government to the Brisbane City Council Development of Greater Springfield, including the development of Education City Development of Brisbane Airport, including the Qantas heavy maintenance hangar, the Virgin Blue domestic terminal, maintenance hangar and flight simulator facility, the Direct Factory Outlets centres and distribution centres Acted for Stockland in the purchase of Lensworth property portfolio Purchase of Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast Purchase of Brampton, Dunk, Bedarra and Lizard Islands, North Queensland Purchase of Garden City, Mt Gravatt and Pacific Fair, Broadbeach shopping centres by AMP Shopping Centre Trust • • • Purchases and sales of Brisbane CBD buildings at 201 Charlotte Street, 260 Queen Street, 179 North Quay, 127 Creek Street, 121 Wharf Street, 324 Queen Street (ANZ Centre), 215 Adelaide Street and Rowes Arcade Sale by AMP entities to Stockland of Waterfront Place and Eagle Street Pier, Brisbane Purchase of Wintergarden Centre and Hilton Hotel, Brisbane by DaySun Australia and sale to ISPT