The Builder
and the Banker.
Fisher & Fisher was founded on a simple observation: the people best equipped to advise on the sale of a lifetime's work are the people who have already done it themselves. David built. Josie banked. The firm is what happens when those two careers sit on the same side of the table as you.
David and Josie Fisher · Founders, Fisher & Fisher
David G. Fisher
46 Years in Commercial Construction & Property Development. Co-founder, multiple companies and property owner.
David's career has been lived in two connected worlds: the businesses he co-founded and the properties those businesses depended on. Over forty-six years, he has built, owned, and operated companies across manufacturing, services, and retail, while simultaneously leading commercial construction and property development projects at scale. The same person who negotiated payroll on a Friday afternoon also signed off on development budgets and site programmes on Monday morning.
That dual track is what makes the advice rare. David has delivered a $1.2 billion cancer hospital, a $50 million data centre, and shopping centres across South-East Queensland — not from a consultant's desk, but as an owner-principal who understood that the building either underwrites the business or becomes the business itself. He has lived the moment when a founder realises the property is not the backdrop to the exit; it is half of the value.
As a QLD-licensed real estate agent and co-founder of Fisher & Fisher, he now applies that 46-year lens directly to owners preparing for a dual-asset exit. He has stood on both sides of the boundary your accountant warns you about — and he knows how to make the two assets work together.
Josie Fisher
Fifteen years in corporate banking. MLC. International airlines. Registered real estate agent.
Josie began her career inside the corporate banking corridors that finance the businesses Fisher & Fisher now helps to exit. Fifteen years of credit committees, transaction structuring and relationship banking taught her to read a balance sheet the way her clients read the floor of their own factory: instantly, instinctively, and with a clear view of what the bank will actually agree to.
Time at MLC in life insurance, and earlier years with international airlines based in Germany, sharpened a cross-border financial fluency that matters more than ever for owners with offshore family, offshore buyers or offshore retirement plans.
As a registered real estate agent and the operational principal of the firm, Josie owns the client experience — from the first private call through to the final settlement. Every client of Fisher & Fisher is her client.
Because too many owners leave half the value on the table.
We have sat in our own kitchen at the end of a long sale and asked the question every owner eventually asks: did we get what it was worth? The honest answer is rarely yes. Not because anyone behaved badly — but because the process was never designed around the owner. It was designed around the deal.
Fisher & Fisher exists to change that. To put the owner — and the two assets they spent a lifetime accumulating — back at the centre of the transaction. Property first, because the bricks underwrite the business. Business second, because it should be sold from strength, not from pressure. Exit complete, because retirement is not a half-measure.
This is the work we do. It is the work we wish someone had done for us.