This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
FORMER Sydney Swans AFL premiership player and Canadian rugby national representative Mike Pyke has been appointed JLL’s co-head of equity advisory in Australia and New Zealand.
Pyke will work alongside long-term leader Luke Prokuda, who is co-head of equity advisory, to strengthen the equity advisory team.
Pyke spent eleven years at MA Financial (formerly Moelis), with six of those years in the group’s investment banking business and the corporate executive group. During this time, he was responsible for leading the IPO of MA Financial, corporate strategy and IR.
More recently, Pyke was the head of institutional capital for MA Financial’s asset management business where he was responsible for raising institutional capital across the group’s real estate, credit and private equity strategies.
Since launching the equity advisory business, JLL has closed over $7 billion of transactions across fund recapitalisations, joint ventures, platform sales and programmatic partnerships. The team has been involved in the sale of the Student One platform to Blackstone for more than $500 million and the formation of HMC Capital’s $1 billion unlisted healthcare and life sciences venture.
Luke Billiau, Head of Capital Markets, Australia & New Zealand, said, “We will continue to invest in our platform to ensure we can provide complete capital solutions to our clients, with the ability to leverage dominant sector experience.”
Pyke played 110 AFL games for the Sydney Swans in a career that spanned from the 2009 to 2015 seasons, and was part of the 2012 premiership-winning team and 2014. He made waves with his move into the code, having represented Canada at a national level in rugby union.
