Sarah Minhinnick has experience both as a lawyer and as a banker
NZX has appointed Sarah Minhinnick to the company’s senior leadership team as head of issuer relationships.
Minhinnick joins NZX from Bank of New Zealand, where she is director of capital markets – and in her new role will spearhead a core strategic focus on attracting new listings and supporting current listed companies accessing New Zealand’s equity, debt and funds markets.
NZX chief executive Mark Peterson, says Minhinnick has extensive networks across S&P/NZX 50 companies and deep experience in capital markets, particularly in the origination, structuring and execution of capital markets transactions for a wide range of New Zealand companies. During her time with BNZ, Minhinnick has been involved in about 300 capital transactions.
“It’s wonderful to have another experienced and highly motivated leader joining us who shares our vision to grow New Zealand’s capital markets," he said. Minhinnick already had strong relationships with many listed companies “and an obvious passion for helping local businesses fund their growth to take their products and services to the world,” Mr Peterson says.
Minhinnick has already had an extensive career in New Zealand capital markets, initially as a lawyer with Russell McVeagh and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, and for the past decade as a banker with ANZ Bank and then Bank of New Zealand. She has a BComm (majoring in economics), and an LLB with honours, both from the University of Auckland. She also has a masters (in corporate Law and finance) from New York University.
She will be based in Auckland leading NZX’s issuer relationships team, which works with businesses throughout New Zealand. She will take up the role in January 2020.
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