Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
The exit of an Australia-based drinks company is expected to generate a global private equity firm close to a $2bn return generating a 5-6x return on initial investment.
Full storyRetail chain to be wound up
13 Jun 2026 - Performance
A former private equity-owned retail chain is to be wound up after a recapitalisation proposal from the primary lender to the business failed to attract adequate support.
Full storyA venture-backed ag-tech business has been placed in voluntary administration after it failed to secure new investment needed to continue growing its operations.
Full storyA global private equity firm is to exit its majority stake in an aged-care business to a consortium led by a global infrastructure firm for an estimated $2.5 billion with the deal generating investors more than 2x capital in less than three years.
Full storyContinuation vehicle provides $NZ300m exit
30 May 2026 - Performance
Australia's largest private equity firm has underlined its leadership in local use of continuation vehicles using the structure to provide an exit for an Asian regional private equity firm.
Full story$3.4bn exit to investment company
26 May 2026 - Performance
London-based global private equity firm Permira is to exit I-MED Radiology to Hong Kong investment firm Jardine Matheson for $3.4 billion.
Full storyA growth capital investment firm has made a successful partial exit in the $160 million ASX listing of piercings and jewelley stores business SkinKandy.
Full storyThe acquisition of a software business that survived COVID despite its customers all having to close their doors will generate a return to a Sydney early-stage venture capital firm.
Full storyAn unlised fund set up by an ASX-listed asset manager less than four years ago to invest in public and private companies is to be wound up.
Full storyA Sydney private equity firm has been ranked as the 13th best performer globally among lower mid-market firms.
Full storyGrowth manager extends term of fund
24 Apr 2026 - Performance
A growth private equity fund manager has extended the term of its second fund as a second extension of its first fund nears expiry.
Full storyA Sydney private equity firm has achieved a partial exit of its investment in an environmental rehabilitation business, selling a division to a global utilities business.
Full storyA mid-market private equity firm is in line to achieve a substantial partial exit via an agreed acquisition by a US investor.
Full storyAcquisition to provide exit from listed company
04 Apr 2026 - Performance
A private equity firm is to exit its investment in an ASX-listed company as a result of an agreed acquisiton of the business by a global insurance company.
Full storyThe exit of a New Zealand-founded car parts procurement online platform to a US buyer for $NZ650 million will provide strong returns to the company's private capital investors.
Full storyA well-established Australia and New Zealand private equity roll-up strategy is to be transferred to a continuation fund backed by global investors.
Full storyOnline furniture retailer Koala's successful float left the comany's venture capital backers well placed after the company's first day of trading as an ASX-listed company.
Full storyShares in an ASX-listed medical technolgy company some of which are still held by pre-listing investors,
Full storySushi restaurants exited to Japanese buyer
07 Mar 2026 - Performance
A Sydney private equity firm is to exit its large majority stake in a chain of sushi restaurants to a Japanese listed company which is seeking expansion in overseas markets.
Full storyLeading Australian venture firms and a later-stage US investor will benefit from the agree sale of an Australian online health care sales channel to a US listed company.
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