Charbel Nader

Charbel Nader is an Australian investment banker who was the architect of a number of innovative Film Financing transactions in the 1990s the most notable being a series of Village Roadshow off balance sheet film financings which funded Films such as The Matrix series and Ocean's Eleven in conjunction with Warner Bros.^[1]

After a successful stint in Sydney with News Corp's Venture capital vehicle e-Ventures and PBL/Nine Network where he was responsible for the Macquarie Nine Film raising; a joint endeavour between the Nine Network and Macquarie bank he returned to Melbourne as Managing Director of McHudson Corporate.

In June 2007 he was recruited by Pitt Capital Partners.^[2][3][4] to head up and establish a Melbourne office of the Investment Bank^[5] which is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of Australia's oldest publicly listed corporations Washington H. Soul Pattinson which also owns 61% of New Hope Coal Limited.^[6]

He is credited with leading the Pitt Capital Partners Limited team that successfully completed the $236m debt and equity recapitalisation of Living and Leisure Australia (ASX: LLA) (originally managed by MFS/Octaviar), the only successful mid cap recapitalisation completed in 2008, at the height of the global credit crisis.^[7][8][9]

He is a Founder and Executive Vice President of Australia Acquisition Corp.,^[10] He is also (founding) Chairman of Metro Media Holdings Pty Ltd, publisher of The Weekly Review, and was instrumental in its merger with Fairfax Community News Network in December 2011.^[11][12] In 2015 he oversaw and managed the sale of the remaining 50% interest in Metro Media Holdings for $72m.^[13][14][15]

In August 2014 he helped lead a consortium to acquire Madman Entertainment from troubled toy wholesaler Funtastic Ltd (whose major shareholders include Lachlan Murdoch, Gerry Harvey and Craig Mathieson .^{[16][17][18][19]}

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6. "BHP, Mitsubishi in $2.5b coal deal". Sydney Morning Herald. 2008-07-18.
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10. "Australia Acquisition Corp. ("AAC"); and Harbinger Capital Partners LLC ("HCP") announced today". Marketwire. 2012-07-11.
11. "Fairfax to merge community papers with rival". Sydney Morning Herald. 2011-12-23.
12. "Board Members". Metro Media Publishing. 2013-10-09.
13. "Fairfax Media pays $72 million to buy back its Melbourne real estate ad revenues". Property Observer. 2015-01-13.
14. "Metro Media agents back the Domain Group". Metro Media. 2015-01-13.
15. "Bloomberg". Bloomberg. 2015-01-13.
16. "Madman Sale Closed". Inside Film. 2014-08-01.
17. "Madman: gets the keys to its own asylum". Screen Arts Hub. 2014-08-01.
18. "IMG Global". IMG Global. 2016-08-01.
19. "BIO". bio. 2016-09-12.