Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News

The competition regulator has given a green light to an acquisition that will allow to private equity firms to exit a specialist hazardous materials handling and clean-up contractor.

Shares in a private capital-backed medical technology company have risen 53% from the IPO price in four days since listing on the ASX.

Global asset management firm Brookfield is to exit retirement homes business Aveo for a record $3.85 billion.

A private equity firm is expected to use the refinancing of an investee company to generate a return for its limited partner investors.

The agreed sale of a builder of remote power stations for mining companies will generate its investors strong returns.

A private capital-backed medical technology company has launched a $25 million IPO and plans to list on the ASX this month.

A Melbourne-based private capital firm is believed to have agreed to sell a software company to a US growth capital firm that provided it with a similar exit 12 months ago.

Creditors of a collapsed venture capital-backed company have voted for the business to be liquidated.

A lower mid-market prlvate equity firm has achieved a trade sale exit of a Gold Coast skin care brand to a Hong Kong-based company.

The sale of a Sydney software company to a US venture firm is likely to return two local investment firms around 10x their investments.

Two underperforming retail assets have been sold by a Sydney private equity firm, probably for a token figure.

Crossover investment firms that made pre-IPO investments in a financial data company nearly four years ago have now gained their rewards with the company being acquired for probably more than $150 million.

A private equity firm is to exit its majority stake in a hydraulics enginering business to another private equity firm.

An ASX-listed company has agreed to pay $377 million to acquire a hazardous materials handling contractor from two private equity firms.

An Auckland-based venture capital-backed computer components testing business is to be acquired by a US listed company.

Two Australian investment firms are to sell down shares worth $52 million in a a company that sells high-end bikes and bike parts online.

A private capital-backed supplier of beer kegs has been placed in voluntary recievership after a lender declined to extend further credit to the business.

A mining software business is to be exited for $1.31 billion 18 months after a previously agreed sale of the business for $900 million was called off.

A specialist technology private equity firm has exited its investment in a superannuation payments software company to a consortium led by a global investor.