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Introduction

Macquarie is an investment banking powerhouse with Australian roots. The firm is a top-ranked M&A advisor and one of the world’s leading infrastructure and renewables asset managers. Macquarie offers its people a chance to grow and develop their skills while working on high impact deals in areas such as green energy, sustainable food supply chains, and social housing.

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PUBLIC

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2022 Employees (All Locations)

18,000

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Employment Contact

Tracey Byrne


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CEO

Shemara Wikramanayake

About the Company

Macquarie's origins date back to 1969, when three men founded Hill Samuel Australia bank in Sydney, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.K. merchant bank Hill Samuel & Co Ltd. The bank grew quickly thanks to its expertise in a diverse range of financial services and products.  It wasn't until the 1980s, 15 years after Hill Samuel was first established in Australia, that the bank's directors decided to restructure their firm into an Australian trading bank; they received government approval to do so in February 1985. At that time, they renamed the bank Macquarie after the popular early Aussie governor, Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), who is fondly remembered for figuring out how to solve the then looming problem of a currency shortage by purchasing Spanish silver dollars and punching out their centers to create two new coins, the Ho...

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