July 2024
Disgraced corporate raider Ron Brierley rides again
The former corporate titan was convicted for possessing child porn in 2021. Now, he’s out of prison and investing in Seven West Media.
- Mark Di Stefano
October 2023
Ghost of Ron Brierley returns to haunt Mark Bouris
The ubiquitous businessman hosted Yellow Brick Road shareholders in Sydney, seeking approval to take the lender private. Then a figure from the past showed up.
- Mark Di Stefano
January 2022
- From The Archives
- Platinum Year
‘I’m a very greedy person’: Russell Goward before the fall
AFR Classic | Russell Goward was corporate raider Ron Brierley’s chief executive before he went out on his own. Joseph Dowling interviewed him in London in August 1987 before the fall.
January 2022
How the takeover king of the 1980s came undone
John Spalvins controlled the biggest industrial group in Australia at the end of the decade but it all came crashing down.
- Andrew Clark
October 2021
- Updated
- Courts
Ron Brierley sentenced to 14 months in jail over child abuse material
Judge Sarah Huggett went through the details of the tens of thousands of images Brierley had across devices found on him when he was arrested in 2019.
- Updated
- Max Mason
From corporate titan to jailed paedophile
As Ron Brierley was sentenced, it was hard to reconcile the pitiful image with that of the swashbuckling corporate titan.
- Michael Pelly
August 2021
Ron Brierley a ‘social pariah’ over child porn conviction
The former corporate titan is now a social pariah whose name been ‘scrubbed’ from buildings, a court hears.
- Michael Pelly
The 70-year battle that changed Australian retailing
The fight for supremacy between Woolworths and Coles has been closely charted by The Australian Financial Review for many decades.
- Sue Mitchell
February 2021
Brierley faces more charges of possessing child abuse material
The new total of 17 charges only came to light on Thursday morning in his latest court hearing at Downing Street Local Court in Sydney.
- Max Mason
August 2020
Former MasterChef contestant snaps up $11.6m Mosman spread
'Curry king' Jimmy Seervai has bought two houses near Balmoral Beach with plans to eventually knock them down and rebuild a single three-level residence.
- Lucy Macken
February 2020
Ron Brierley in court on charges of possessing child-abuse pictures
Corporate raider Ron Brierley, walking with a cane, made his Sydney court appearance. He faces six counts of possessing child abuse material.
- Dominica Sanda
December 2019
Corporate raider Ron Brierley arrested on child pornography charges
Legendary corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley has been arrested over alleged child pornography offences.
- Lucas Baird and Aaron Patrick