The firm
Welcome to BEAM.
BEAM Corp is a licenced boutique Australian corporate advisory firm focusing on middle market transactions.
We have extensive experience advising leading Australian organisations across a range of transactions.
The BEAM team
Eric Melman
CEO
Eric Melman, who established BEAM Corp in December 2000, has 46 years' experience in the merchant banking, investment banking and funds management markets.
Highlights of his career include 13 years as a director of Schroders, three years as founding Managing Director of Investec Australia and 26 years as founder and principal of BEAM Corp.
Eric has held a number of private and public company non-executive board positions and is currently Chairman of Xenia Mutual, Steadfast Life and Scott Winton Insurance Brokers.
Carol Melman
General manager
Carol Melman has been with BEAM Corp since its inception. Her professional background in teaching and broad experience as an event manager with the Australian Financial Markets Association for five years combine to offer a unique resource for BEAM Corp clients.
Carol acts as project manager for all projects, playing a critical role in client interface and the timely delivery of all BEAM Corp's undertakings.
The way we work
Over 46 years of merchant banking experience, in a method built for your business.
BEAM has developed a bespoke methodology tailored to implement strategy and change. BEAM's proven process delivers optimised outcomes in a structured and timely manner.
BEAM first develops an in-depth understanding of your business and its workings. This enables us to work alongside you in formulating strategies that will assist you to maximise the future value of your business.
BEAM's principals project manage the deliverables throughout the entire program, via a process that includes:
- 01Implementing an in-depth analysis of your business, your vision and your needs.
- 02Developing a customised program designed to achieve your goals.
- 03Drawing on our strong commercial relationships with local and international investors, equity brokers, private equity firms and investment banks.
How we work with you
Our commitment to you.
Relationships first.
We invest in understanding you and your business before we advise on it.
Senior attention, always.
The people you meet on day one are the people who see your transaction through.
Independence.
We are licenced, privately owned and free of conflicts.
In our clients' words
BEAM have a meticulous process that gets results that are valued by both sides of a transaction. This is evidenced by the fact that many divestors then become investors in BEAM transactions and vice versa which is testament to Eric and Carol's high integrity and delivery of successful and fair outcomes. It is not only the friendship and the final transaction success that I have enjoyed, it is also the broader business advise and connections with other relevant professionals that have really added value to our businesses. One thing is for sure, it is unlikely you would work with BEAM only once — like many others you will welcome the opportunity to work with them again on either side of a transaction.
Duncan Stone
Managing Director, FluidIntel
Team BEAM have been our advisors for the last year helping us build and sustain a sustainable business model using their deep experience, knowledge and networks to create value, identify and evaluate acquisition and merger targets while helping the group build relationships with key market players.
Brian Pereira
CEO, The CN Group