About Don

Recognised world-wide as an expert specialising on providing advice on mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Don Manifold is also held in high esteem in the preparation of independent expert’s reports and valuations. Over the last 15 years, Don has brought his transaction advisory skills to senior leadership roles with some of the largest professional service firms in the world. Throughout this time, Don’s work has covered a broad range of industries. These industries have include financial services, consumer goods, agriculture, manufacturing, retail and information technology. Don has also advised on more than 40 completed mergers, acquisitions, divestments and capital raisings, with a combined value in excess of $2 billion. He has prepared more than 50 independent expert’s reports and valuations, with a combined value in excess of $25 billion. For the ten years before his return to Adelaide in 2006, Don worked in London, Sydney and Melbourne. The international transactions he has advised have been broad ranging and covered transactions in places as diverse as Australia, England, Croatia and Papua New Guinea. As well as a Bachelor of Economics (Honours), Don holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, consistently rated one of the top business schools in the world.