On the Gavin Anderson website Felicity Allen gives the following self description:
Felicity Allen has extensive expertise in corporate communication, privatisation and issues and crisis management gained over more than seventeen years as a communications professional. She is the Head of the Melbourne office.
She has worked on a number of issues management briefs including Baulderstone Hornibrook’s issues over the Royal Commission into the building and construction industry, construction of Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium and Western Link infrastructure projects, the Construction Employer’s Planning Forum dispute with the building unions over plans for a 36 hour week and Victoria’s five electricity distribution businesses on regulatory issues.
More recently her skills have been fully utilised in IPO, merger and takeover activity managing communications surrounding Pasminco’s restructuring, the Australian Infrastructure Fund’s successful acquisition of Infratil Australia, the Telstra PCCW joint venture, Optus’s proposed merger with SingTel, Anglo American’s requisitioning of an EGM at Anaconda Nickel, and a number of privatisation transactions in the utility and health sectors.
She has a particular expertise in internal communications having worked on a number of corporate development initiatives with companies including James Hardie and Goodman Fielder. She specialises in assisting organisations who are moving through a period of change associated with restructuring, takeover, merger, change of ownership or operational closure. Clients have included RACV/NRMA, American Electric Power’s acquisition of Citipower, Ramsay Health Care, NRG/CMS Energy’s acquisition of Loy Yang Power, Pasminco, and the Power Partnership’s acquisition of Victorian gas distribution business Multinet.
She was previously senior public affairs officer with BHP Transport where she was responsible for a range of public affairs activities. She had significant crisis management responsibilities as part of BHP Transport and BHP’s crisis response capability. Felicity has also worked as a consultant with a multi-national public affairs consultancy, where she focussed on corporate communication - both internal and external - and crisis management.
