During its formative years, Ellis Corporate gained a reputation in the hospitality industry for the sales of city and country hotels, motels, caravan parks and liquor stores.

Since then, it has broadened its scope to encompass businesses in the Manufacturing, Wholesale, Service, Distribution, Construction, Retail and Master Franchising sectors. While the agency's Corporate Business Broking Division specialises in the sale of medium to large businesses, it also has achieved notable success in the marketing of well documented smaller businesses.

This has occurred because the Division maintains a database containing a large number of potential purchasers with many individual and diverse requirements.

Ellis Corporate's business broking team comprises six experienced members. Each has conducted businesses both locally and overseas, and all enjoy a sound financial know-how. They are all committed to keeping themselves well informed about the current trends in their various specialised markets, and have the skills needed to advise on all of the factors that can contribute to a successful business sale or purchase.

These skills include qualifying purchasers, helping eliminate problems that can adversely affect a business sale, assisting purchasers in securing finance, and creating advertising designed to achieve maximum exposure for each dollar spent.

All of our dealings have a single goal: client satisfaction.

Our Business Broking Team

David Ellis

Principal  & Licensee

David is a commerce graduate of UCT, majoring in Accounting, Business Administration and Marketing. David has a wealth of knowledge and experience in real estate investment and development, commercial property management, and corporate business broking - involving medium to large enterprises.

Daniel Dawson

Corporate Business Broker

Daniel has a BA (Business Law) degree and is a lawyer with over 20 years’ experience dealing with publicly listed companies.  He has researched, invested in, and traded with many listed companies both in here and overseas. Daniel has valuable experience in selling minority or majority shareholdings in private companies and can settle shareholder disputes.

Richard Mott

Corporate Business Broker

Richard's background includes company directorships of a major Queensland automotive dealership and a hospitality business. Subsequently he spent ten years as a business broker in Canada consulting with buyers from Asia, Europe and North America.  Richard is skilled in buyer negotiations leading to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships with an emphasis on new owners looking to safely gain entry to their own businesses.

Alan Dinnie

Corporate Business Broker

Alan represents Ellis Corporate in the South West region of Western Australia; opting for a lifestyle with traditional country values - a legacy of his rural upbringing and farming origins. Formal business qualifications and with a background as a business strategist and turnaround specialist, Alan's broad based senior management experience covers a diverse range of industries including agriculture, mining, hospitality, tourism, e-business, retail, professional services and manufacturing.

Peter Marinovich

Specialist Consultant

Peter Marinovich has spent 35 years in marketing in Australia and Africa. He entered the business broking field with Ellis Corporate some 10 years ago after a period in which he owned a marketing and a manufacturing business. The holder of a B.Comm degree in accounting and marketing, Peter has, over the years, successfully negotiated the sale of businesses in the mining, retail, wholesale, manufacturing and finance sectors as well as the services industry.

Peter is highly self-motivated, tenacious and innovative and, as a former immigrant, is well able to understand the needs of migrants. This, coupled with his accounting and marketing background, his record in achieving successful sales and his previous experience in running his own businesses, has equipped him with all the tools that you need to achieve the win-win the sale of your business.