Risk, Reward, and Responsibility in Mergers & Acquisitions

Matthew Bell, Senior Consultant and M&A Practice Leader, has more than 30 years of experience delivering EHS business solutions to a broad spectrum of domestic and multi-national companies. His work is focused primarily on large-scale M&A projects for strategic buyers, and the private equity community. This work includes extensive due diligence work, quantification of liabilities, protecting the client’s downside, assisting in identifying upside value, conducting ESG benchmark and screening reviews, and assisting with positioning uncertainties, risks and liabilities on the sell side. Matthew has worked for clients on hundreds of M&A transactions and various other projects in over 50 countries worldwide. He has extensive experience as the project lead interfacing with the client, regulatory agencies, and various stakeholders.  

Eeda Wallbank started her scientific journey as someone who just wanted to make her part of the world a little greener, and has risen to become a top environmental consultant in Asia. In a career approaching two decades, Eeda has overseen high profile environmental response efforts across Asia and the United States. She's been the person you'd call if an oil train derailed and exploded near a river in the middle of winter -- true story -- or if a plume of contaminants threatened a major city's drinking water supplies. She's overseen a wide array of delicate assignments, from health and safety for a smallpox vaccine laboratory to cleaning up old bombing ranges. 

Now as Sector Leader for ESC in Singapore, Eeda helps a who's who of multinationals and private equity firms to audit their potential environmental and social liabilities, while ensuring that environmental claims they make are true across the entire supply chain, no matter where in the world that may be. 

Graham is a Chartered Environmentalist and Due Diligence practitioner with over 23 years’ experience in environmental consultancy.  Graham has a solid background in Land Contamination, Environmental Permitting and Environmental Health & Safety compliance, combined with 23 years of advising clients on Real Estate and Corporate M&A transactions across the world.  Graham is the Account Manager for a large number of investment and corporate clients in the UK, Europe and globally.  

As Inogen Alliance’s Mergers and Acquisition Transaction Services Working Group lead, Lean is excited to be working with Inogen’s highly experienced M&A practitioners across the world to deliver global M&A services to our clients. She is excited about the transformations that are currently reshaping due diligence frameworks to drive sustainable outcomes. 

With over 35 years experience in the environmental field, Lean has worked across a range of industries and sectors in Asia Pacific and New Zealand. Her experience includes pre transaction site characterisation and post transaction advice to support business decisions around mergers and acquisitions, including support for environmental and contaminated land issues for lease exit negotiations.