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UK-based firm to make largest Australian exit
10 Dec 2024 - Performance
A UK-based private equity firm is to achieve its largest Australian exit to date agreeing to sell its majority stake in a waste service business to a global private equity firm in a deal that values the business at more than $1 billion.
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Exit helps firm return $625m to investors
09 Dec 2024 - Performance
A lower mid-market private equity firm has reported returning $625 million to investors in 2024, largely as a result of one successful exit.
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A listed software company has shifted its preferred sale from a special acquisition company to a revised private equity deal.
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An impact infrastructure investment firm is to form a development joint venture with a Melbourne-based retirement villages operator.
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Australia's competition watchdog the ACCC has outlined preliminary concers over the proposed sale of a private equity investee to a major rival.
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An individual investor has led a $17 million funding round which will be used by a Melbourne-based online freshfood restaurant ordering platform to expand in the US.
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A leading Australian private equity firm is to acquire Singapore Post's Australian logistics business in a deal that values the asset at just over $1 billion.
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Defence sector-focused investment firm Salus Ventures has recruited as advisers two high-profile military figures and a former Australian ambassador to the US.
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The federal government-funded Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has taken a stake in a company that is making green energy accessible to apartment tenants.
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A private equity firm has gained majority control of an ASX-listed dental centres business almost 12 months after it put forward a first indicative bid.
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A super fund has extended its commitment to a deep tech innovation fund to $435 million with a further commitment of $125 million.
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The founder of one of Australia's leading technology growth companies is to step down with the business on course for an IPO.
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A venture capital firm has led a $2 million seed round for a start-up that has developed artificial intelligence (AI) driven software to pursue consumer complaints.
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A seed-fund has led a $16.75 million Series A funding round for a university research spin-out company that is developing a drug that has shown promise for treating motor neurone disease.
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A global investment manager, owned by Australian super funds, has increased its investment in an ASX-listed toll roads operator to just under 30%.
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Investment firms and prominent individual investors have provided $17 million in expansion capital to a company that provides an online platform for drafting wills.
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An investment syndicate set up by Australian sports stars is seeking to raise at least $25 million for its first venture capital fund.
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A horticultural research organisation has linked with a venture capital firm to launch a $60 million horticultural technology venture capital fund claimed to be the world's first of its kind.
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An indicative $119 million private equity offer has been put forward to acquire an ASX-listed motor vehicles fleet management and leasing company.
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A New Zealand venture backed advanced manufacturing technology company has made its first US sale to a New Jersey institute that is working to improve manufacturing for the defence sector.
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