Li received competing offers by two consortia led by Australia's Macquarie Bank and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group / Newbridge submitted expressions of interest last month to acquire PCCW's core telecom and media assets.

In December 2005, the London Stock Exchange rejected a £ 1. 6 billion takeover offer from Macquarie Bank.

In 2002, the Australian Government sold Sydney Airports Corporation Limited ( later renamed Sydney Airport Corporation Limited, SACL ), the management authority for the airport, to Southern Cross Airports Corporation Holdings Ltd. 82. 93 per cent of SACL is owned by MAp Airports International Limited, a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank, Sydney Airport Intervest GmbH own 12. 11 per cent and Ontario Teachers ' Australia Trust own 4. 96 per cent.

These expansions — and other plans and policies by Macquarie Bank for airport operations — are seen as controversial, as they are performed without the legal oversight of local councils, which usually act as the local planning authority for such developments.

By April 2006, Compass had spun off its motorway service stations to Moto bought by Macquarie Bank of Sydney, Australia.

Despite opposition from the British government, Macquarie encouraged the creation of the colony's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, in 1817.

* Macquarie Bank, an investment bank founded in 1970

CICC, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley led the Hong Kong offering, with JPMorgan, Macquarie, Deutsche Bank and ABC's own securities unit also involved.

After the defeat of the Fraser government at the 1983 election, Hewson went into business journalism and became a director of a private bank, the Macquarie Bank.

Image: CBA2. jpg | CBA building opposite Macquarie Bank

In 1817 Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales ( later to become Westpac in 1982 ) opened in Macquarie Place.

A Macquarie Bank report states that the company was worth $ 3. 5 billion, and the share price doubled within days.

** Macquarie Bank, an Australian merchant bank

They include the completed KPMG Headquarters, American Express House, Ibis Hotel, Macquarie Bank headquarters and One Shelley Street office building.

** 1 August – BBC Broadcast, formerly Broadcasting & Presentation and responsible for the playout and branding of all BBC Channels, is sold to Creative Broadcast Services, owned by the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and Macquarie Bank.

The airport was purchased by Macquarie Bank and Cintra in January 2001 for £ 198m.

The line is owned and operated by Airtrain Citylink Limited, with financial backing from Transfield Services, Macquarie Bank, Colonial First State and ABN AMRO.

Following the sale of its London bus operations to Macquarie Bank in 2006, Stagecoach UK Bus concentrated on the bus market outside the UK capital, focusing on organic growth and exploring acquisition options.

Deciding to focus on organic growth for its UK bus operations, and citing the inflexibility of the London tendering system, the London bus operations were sold to Macquarie Bank on 31 August 2006 for £ 263. 6m.

Those stations are part of the Southern Cross network owned by Macquarie Bank Media and Capital Radio and are some of the stations which also broadcast the Continuous Call Team.

In the early 1990s, the Catholic Church got out of broadcasting, and sold 2NX to Radio Newcastle, which was later taken over by Austereo, and then sold a 50 % stake to RG Capital Radio Network ( which was taken over by Macquarie Bank ).

Today, Macquarie Street is also the location of Parliament House, the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney Mint and the Reserve Bank of Australia.

The transaction included the sale of 43 Moto motorway service areas to Australia's Macquarie Bank for an estimated £ 600m.

The financial services industry in particular occupies much of the available office space, with companies such as the Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Bank, AMP Limited, Insurance Australia Group, Polltraxx Music Group Australia, AON, Marsh, Allianz, HSBC, AXA and ABN Amro all having offices.

Medallist was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between Greg Norman's Great White Shark Enterprises and Macquarie Group Limited.

AMP Wholesale Shopping Centre Trust No. 2 and Westfield Management Limited both own a fifty percent stake in Macquarie Centre, the centre is managed and leased by AMP Capital Shopping Centres.

He undertook the Commercial Review of all the BBC's commercial activities and was responsible in 2004 for the sale of BBC Technology to Siemens Business Services, and in 2005, he led the sale of BBC Broadcast to Creative Broadcast Services Limited, a Macquarie Company.

Ownership of these stations and affiliates is mostly shared between PBL Media, Seven Media Group, WIN Corporation, Macquarie Media Group and Prime Television Limited.

In May 2007, Duquesne was acquired by a consortium led by affiliates of the Macquarie Group Limited.

This includes a variety of native fish such as the famous Murray cod, trout cod, golden perch, Macquarie perch, silver perch, eel-tailed catfish, Australian smelt and western carp gudgeon, to name a few, and other aquatic species like the Murray short-necked turtle, Murray River crayfish, broad-clawed yabbies and the large clawed Macrobrachium shrimp, as well as aquatic species more widely distributed through south-eastern Australia such as common long-necked turtles, common yabbies, the small claw-less Paratya shrimp, water rats and Platypus.

Campbelltown gets its name from Elizabeth Campbell, the wife of former Governor of New South Wales Lachlan Macquarie.

The origin of the name " Australia " is closely associated with Macquarie.

" Australia ", as a name for the country which we now know by that name, was suggested by Matthew Flinders, but first used in an official despatch by Macquarie in 1817.

Macquarie formally adopted the name Australia for the continent, the name earlier proposed by the first circumnavigator of Australia, Matthew Flinders.

Goulburn was named by surveyor James Meehan after Henry Goulburn, Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies, and the name was ratified by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

Lake Burrendong is the name of the impoundment created by Burrendong Dam on the Macquarie River in the central west of New South Wales.

Macquarie is a commonly encountered name for geographical and business entities in Australia, all of which are directly or indirectly named after Lachlan Macquarie, early colonial administrator and governor of New South Wales.

* Macquarie National News is the name of the news service of the Macquarie Radio Network, and is taken by various stations including 2KY and SEN 1116.

Macquarie Radio Network () is the name of the company that owns and operates 2GB and 2CH in Sydney.

Macquarie National News is the name of the news service of Macquarie Radio Network.

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Governor Lachlan Macquarie took great exception to this and decided to name the suburb Bellevue Hill, the belle vue meaning beautiful view.

It was first referred to by its current name by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1814 when William Cox started building his road over the Blue Mountains from there.

The Macquarie perch derives its scientific name from the Macquarie River where the first scientifically described specimen was collected ( Macquaria ) and a derivation of the Latin word for " southern " ( australasica ).

The genus name Macquaria derives from the Macquarie River where the first species in the genus was collected.

The 3MP licence was leased to Macquarie Radio Network under the name of Melbourne Talk Radio until MTR's closure in March 2012.

The entrance to Macquarie Harbour was known as Hells Gates and the play on this name has travelled from its naming in the 1830s to Paul Collin's book published in 2002.

Regatta Point is often assumed into the name of the locality across the bay in Macquarie Harbour, Strahan, Tasmania.