Rob Cameron

Rob established Cameron Partners in 1995. With more than 30 years’ experience, he is recognised as one of New Zealand’s most skilled investment bankers.  Rob has led many of New Zealand’s high-profile transactions and advisory mandates across a broad spectrum of sectors.  In addition, Rob has made a significant contribution to numerous organisations through pro-bono governance roles including the Government’s Capital Markets Development Taskforce (Chairman), the Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (Chairman), Special Olympics New Zealand, NZ’s global business network KEA, the Advisory Boards of Victoria University’s Faculty of Commerce and Administration and the School of Government.  Currently Rob is leading the GMRI philanthropic fundraising to further their cancer research.

Prior to Cameron Partners, Rob headed the Corporate Finance Division of Fay Richwhite where his experience included leading the global IPO of Telecom.  Before he became an investment banker Rob was a senior advisor in the New Zealand Treasury and was one of the principal architects of the New Zealand ‘State-Owned Enterprise Model’ in the early 1980s.

Rob has a BCA in Economics with First Class Honours from Victoria University and an MPA (Finance & Economics) from Harvard University. In 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Commerce by Victoria University, and in 2014 was honoured with a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his significant contribution to finance and public policy.  He is a Harkness Fellow, a Hunter Fellow of Victoria University and a Fellow of INFINZ.

Selected assignments and transactions include advising:

• University of Canterbury on their capital structure and funding options, and securing Crown capital funding (NZ$260m)
• Quadrant Private Equity on acquiring a 40% stake in Healthcare of NZ Holdings Limited
• The Financial Markets Authority and the New Zealand Stock Exchange in relation to a review of the FMA’s statutory oversight of NZX as a registered exchange under the Securities Markets Act 1988
• NZ Super Fund on the acquisition of a 35% stake in Datacom Group for NZ$141 million
• Fonterra Co-operative Group in relation to its reorganisation, the review of its capital structure and milk pricing arrangements from December 2007 through to the successful farmer vote supporting proposals for change in July 2010. This work was undertaken as a precursor to the IPO of the Fonterra Shareholders Fund
• The Minister of Finance in relation to the Crown’s acquisition of an 82% shareholding through a NZ$885m capital injection and recapitalisation of Air NZ