Shaun McKinnon

Executive summary

Shaun is an Advisory Partner with BDO in Brisbane; he has over 20 years’ business restructuring and corporate finance experience.

Shaun became an ASIC-registered liquidator in 2009, and has acted as external administrator (receiver, administrator, or liquidator) in numerous matters since that time.

While he provides expert advice across a broad range of industries, he has established himself as a leader in the food and agribusiness sector, where he specialises in corporate transactions, providing financial due diligence and advisory services to corporates (boards, management, buyers, sellers, and financiers).

Expertise

• Business review and advisory services
• Strategy workshops and advisory
• Private capital raising and debt advisory
• Expert witness reports (agribusiness)
• Business restructuring and turnaround advice
• Acting as receiver and manager, voluntary administrator, and liquidator
• Pre-lending reviews
• Acquisition due diligence
• Vendor due diligence

Experience

External administrator:

• Acted as receiver and manager of a management and letting rights business with circa 300 rooms across five properties
• Acted as voluntary administrator of a concrete pumping business with a turnover of $100 million and 400 staff across five states. Shaun traded the business while it was restructured via deed of company arrangement, before it was eventually handed back to the directors, who continued trading.

Agriculture:

• Farm business analysis reports on agricultural enterprises on behalf of a state government authority to understand profitability, future development options, capital requirements, and return on capital
• Business review of a potato farming enterprise with rotational crops of wheat, poppies, and pyrethrum
• Research report into sheep and goat meat investment for a state government department
• Strategy workshop for the owner/managers of an agtech enterprise
• Acquisition due diligence for an Australian domestic client with respect to a large integrated beef production enterprise with a herd of circa 400,000 cattle (breeding, backgrounding, and feed lotting)
• Helped an integrated feedlot and grain-producing enterprise identify an equity partner to assist with future business growth
• Pre-lending due diligence for a major Australian bank with respect to an integrated beef production and processing enterprise.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Masters of Agribusiness
• Qualified Chartered Accountant
• Associate Diploma in Applied Finance
• Registered Liquidator, ASIC

Professional engagements and activities

• Non-Executive Director, Tropical Pines Pty Ltd, 2020 to current
• Advisory Board Member, Griffith University Business School, 2014 to current
• Advisory Board Member, Matchfit Platforms, 2019 to current
• Secretary, North Brisbane Rugby Club, 2018 to current