Mark Arena

Mark Arena

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Principal

Mark is a Chartered Accountant with over ten years’ experience in accounting, corporate finance and consulting roles.

He regularly performs business valuations in contentious and non-contentious engagements, with a particular focus on the valuation of domestic and international infrastructure assets (including but not limited to airports, toll roads, water and utilities, oil and gas, public private partnerships, ports, energy assets, waste management and telecommunications) for institutional investors.

Mark also has extensive experience in the quantification of complex economic loss claims in the context of commercial litigation and tax disputes, and is regularly involved in the preparation of expert reports with regards to business valuations, breaches of contract, post-acquisition disputes, class actions and the investigation of accounting records.

Specialisations

Expertise

  • Damage calculations
  • Financial modelling
  • Forensic accounting
  • Valuations
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Qualifications & accolades

  • Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting from Macquarie University
  • Bachelor of Applied Finance from Macquarie University
  • Chartered Accountant

Recent work highlights include:

  • Periodic valuations of infrastructure assets with a total value in excess of $85 billion
  • Quantification of loss suffered by an ASX-listed company in merging with a US company by reference to the true value of their interests in over 20 funds management businesses
  • Calculation of loss and damages suffered by an ASX-listed rail transport operator as a result of being prevented from entering into various transactions
  • Assessment of whether a former-ASX listed company prepared its financial statements in accordance with accounting standards in the period leading up to its insolvency