By ELLEN READ
Colin Giffney and David Quigg were yesterday named as new appointments to the Takeovers Panel by Commerce Minister Paul Swain.
The Takeovers Panel will be responsible for implementing the Takeovers Code once it comes into force next week.
Mr Swain also announced the reappointment for three-year terms of panel members
David Jones, Alastair Lawrence, Kevin O'Connor and Daphne Rawstorne.
Panel chairman John King was reappointed this year.
The panel membership is now almost complete, with just one position remaining vacant - that of an Australian representative.
Mr Giffney is the principal in Giffney & Jones, a specialist corporate adviser firm, and a former managing director of JBWere in NZ.
A member of the Stock Exchange since 1979 and a founding member of its surveillance panel, he has an in-depth knowledge of the securities market and extensive practical experience in mergers, acquisitions and contested takeovers.
David Quigg is a mergers and acquisition corporate partner with law firm Quigg Partners.
He has worked extensively on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, takeovers and corporate governance issues.
He is a member of a number of professional institutes, including the Institute of Directors, and a Securities Institute task force member.
