Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $1.92 billion to major new power lines projects structuring the financing to attract private investors to back the projects that are estimated to cost a total of around $5 billion.
Full storyA healthcare sector private equity firm has raised more than $350 million for its second fund.
Full storyA US growth capital firm is to take a half share in one of New Zealand's leading wealth managment firms.
Full storyAn ASX-listed company has rejected an indicative acquisition offer from a global private equity firm after gaining support from its major shareholder.
Full storyA social and environmental focused private equity firm is to acquire a wealth advisory technology business that had earlier been on track for an IPO.
Full storyA private equity firm has made a bid to acquire a New Zealand company it listed ten years ago.
Full storyFederal and state investors have led a $30 million funding round for a quantum technology hardware company.
Full storyWearable medical device company raises $8 million mainly from individual investors.
Full storyA global private equity firm has made a $2.68 billion indicative offer for an ASX-listed wealth management company. The company has recently come under shareholder criticism for failing to adequately integrate large acquisitions.
Full storyAn investee of an Australian private equity firm is to make two acquisitions in New Zealand.
Full storyPrivate capital firms targeting individual investors
13 Dec 2024 - New funds and fundraising
Global and local private capital firms are stepping up efforts to persuade Australian and New Zealand individual investors to invest in their strategies.
Full storyGrowth fund passes $NZ100m target
13 Dec 2024 - New funds and fundraising
With a final close set for December 31, a New Zealand growth capital fund has passed its target of $NZ100 million.
Full story$22 million in venture capital is being invested in a previously bootstrapped market research technology company to take it global.
Full storyA planned $2.18 billion private equity acquisition of a large part of an ASX-listed financial services business has been thrown into doubt by the ATO seeking a much larger tax take than had been previously been expected.
Full storyA Sydney-based waste recycling technology company has attracted overseas investment to prove the commercial value of its process.
Full storyA private equity firm has taken a minority stake in an environmental advisory business.
Full storyUK-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.
Full storyExit 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.
Full storyA listed software company has shifted its preferred sale from a special acquisition company to a revised private equity deal.
Full storyAn impact infrastructure investment firm is to form a development joint venture with a Melbourne-based retirement villages operator.
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