Profile
Marisa is a corporate lawyer, having practised in London, Sydney and Perth. Her expertise spans ECM (IPOs, secondary raisings), private and public M&A (takeovers, schemes), joint ventures, and boardroom advisory, with deep experience in domestic and cross-border transactions.
As leader of Piper Alderman’s national Head Office Advisory practice, Marisa works closely with ASX-listed, private and NFP boards, executives, legal teams and company secretaries across the full organisational life cycle. Her work includes governance reviews, board and committee restructures, CEO succession, executive pay and incentives, annual and ESG reporting, shareholder meetings, stakeholder engagement, activism preparedness, regulatory investigations, and market disclosure. She designs governance and risk frameworks tailored to an organisation’s size, culture, risk appetite and regulatory context, and has contributed to ASX and ASIC industry consultations.
Recognised for her strategic insight and commercial acumen (enhanced by secondments with ASX-listed resources companies in Perth), Marisa delivers tangible value in both day-to-day governance and major Corporate/M&A and ECM transactions. She is known for her pragmatic, collaborative approach and ability to focus on outcomes over obstacles in complex matters.