George Fordyce

George has over 13 years’ experience in corporate finance/investment banking roles relating to the natural resources sector with a specific focus on metals & mining.
Prior to EMR, George was an Associate Director in Macquarie Capital’s Natural Resources team, based in Melbourne, with primary client coverage responsibility for procuring new mandates and executing transactions in the Australian coal sector.
George spent over 12 years at Macquarie in a variety of roles relating to the natural resources sector across the Melbourne and Brisbane offices.
He has intimate knowledge of, and very strong transaction experience across, the coal and base metals sectors including most recently, the defence role for Riversdale Resources on the A$800m hostile takeover bid by Hancock Prospecting, the sale of Peak Gold Mine by New Gold to Aurelia Metals, a A$150m capital raising for CleanTeQ and all the way back to the defence role for Rio Tinto on its defence from BHP Billiton back in 2008.
George’s experience extends across all nature of corporate finance transactions including both public and private M&A, ECM, IPOs, debt finance, listed takeovers, scheme of arrangements, multi jurisdiction transactions and importantly where Macquarie invested its own balance sheet as a principal investor.
George also has considerable experience working on coal infrastructure transactions in Australia.
George is well known to the EMR Capital team having led the day to day transactional management of EMR Capital’s acquisition of the Kestrel coking coal mine in 2018.
Prior to Macquarie, George commenced his career in 2004 as an intern at Exxon Mobil’s Altona Oil & Gas Refinery as a process engineer.
George graduated with a combined Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from The University of Melbourne.