Mark Johnson was in his early 30s when he spearheaded a team from Hill Samuel Australia, the predecessor to Macquarie, that secured the largest-single fundraising to date for an Australian company in the eurodollar market.
The ambitious investment banker, with a penchant for sailing, jazz, cigar smoking and red wine, and his co-managing director David Clarke, were running Hill Samuel’s local outpost. They’d taken the reins after Johnson stuck around a while at his former firm Darling & Company to help with the fallout from the collapse of mining house Mineral Securities in 1971.
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