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Elizabeth Wighton
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Sep 7, 2026
Joining Forces: The Governance of NFP Mergers (with Elizabeth Wighton, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin and Victoria Adams, Partner, For Purpose Investment Partners)
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6:37Phil ButlerHOST
But Elizabeth, in terms of the organisations you're helping go down that merger path, what are some of the things that you suggest to boards to be considering when they might even just be in the very early stages of thinking about mergers?

Elizabeth WightonGUEST
I think what Victoria's talked about, about that merger readiness is absolutely fundamental.

Elizabeth WightonGUEST
I think the sector as a whole, there's so much of a sense of people are in it because they're passionate about what they're doing.

Elizabeth WightonGUEST
And it can be so easy when an organisation comes to you as the board sitting around that board table to have that sense of, we want to do the right thing.

Elizabeth WightonGUEST
If not us, then who are going to help these people? What is the future of this organisation going to be without us? And that's a wonderful attitude.
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8:45Phil ButlerHOST
So I'm assuming there's going to be some tax, stamp duty, all sorts of implications that directors may not have considered when they first come up with this idea that emerges a good idea.