Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
A retail private equity fund-of-funds manager that invests only in Australian and New Zealand investment firms has reported its average gross return on invested capital has increased from 3.1x to 4.3x since the beginning of the year.
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Private equity firm exits bus services business
20 Mar 2022 - Performance
A private equity firm has exited its investment in a New Zealand bus services business to Australia and New Zealand's largest private bus services operator.
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Seed fund achieves early profitable exit
15 Mar 2022 - Performance
A seed fund has achieved a profitable exit after little more than two years as a result of the acquisition of an electrical equipment monitoring company.
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An investment in a recruitment software business has been exited with the purchase of the business by a UK company.
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A majority stake in an Australian non-bank credit provider is believed to have been transferred from one global asset manager to another for more than $1.2 billion.
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Car share exit generates strong returns
20 Jan 2022 - Performance
The exit of a car-share start-up to a global business has provided strong returns to investors.
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New Zealand-developed film-making technology has again been acquired by a global company, generating strong returns for local investors.
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Travel business exited to US company
12 Jan 2022 - Performance
A travel business that offers some of Australia's best known outback and coastal experiences has been exited to a private equity-backed US company.
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A Sydney company that produces software that enables businesses to calculate their carbon emissions has been acquired by one of the world's largest technology businesses.
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A private equity-controlled ferries and trucking business has been exited to a global infrastructure fund.
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The ownership of a fast-growing construction industry supplies business has been transferred from one private equity firm to another.
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Motor racing investment finally exited
19 Dec 2021 - Performance
A private equity investment in motor racing has finally been exited after a challenging decade long hold period.
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A private equity firm is to exit an aged care business to a non-profit operator for an undisclosed sum believed to be around $700 million.
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Wealth manager to be acquired for $475m
15 Dec 2021 - Performance
A global private banking firm is to acquire an Australian wealth manager for $475m.
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One of Australia's largest private equity firms has exited for $1.167 billion a surgical products distribution business it pieced together over the last three years.
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Software exit generates 4.3x money
13 Dec 2021 - Performance
An international trade sale of a reg-tech software company is believed to have generated a Sydney private equity firm 4.3 times its money after an investment period of less than two years.
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A private equity firm is close to exiting its large majority stake in a private hospitals business to two of Australia's largest institutional investors.
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A private equity firm appears to have generated a gross return of more than 2x on the sale to a listed company of a business it acquired little more than two years ago.
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$US1bn-plus listing planned for investee
08 Dec 2021 - Performance
An overseas investee of a local venture capital firm is to be acquired by a SPAC and listed on NASDAQ at nearly $US1.2 billion.
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New backer for waste services consolidation
07 Dec 2021 - Performance
Growth capital investors are to exit their stakes in a waste services consolidation strategy to a mid-market private equity firm.
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