Latest Private Equity & Venture Capital News
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.
Full storyA 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.
Full storyA private equity-controlled ferries and trucking business has been exited to a global infrastructure fund.
Full storyThe ownership of a fast-growing construction industry supplies business has been transferred from one private equity firm to another.
Full storyMotor 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.
Full storyA 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.
Full storyWealth manager to be acquired for $475m
15 Dec 2021 - Performance
A global private banking firm is to acquire an Australian wealth manager for $475m.
Full storyOne of Australia's largest private equity firms has exited for $1.167 billion a surgical products distribution business it pieced together over the last three years.
Full storySoftware exit generates 4.3x money
13 Dec 2021 - Performance
An international trade sale of a reg-tech software company is believed to have generated a Sydney private equity firm 4.3 times its money after an investment period of less than two years.
Full storyA private equity firm is close to exiting its large majority stake in a private hospitals business to two of Australia's largest institutional investors.
Full storyA private equity firm appears to have generated a gross return of more than 2x on the sale to a listed company of a business it acquired little more than two years ago.
Full story$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.
Full storyNew 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.
Full storyPatient investor achieves short-term exit
01 Dec 2021 - Performance
A patient investor has achieved an international trade sale for a software company after only a short hold period.
Full storyA consortium of private equity investors is to exit most of its stake in a cancer care business in a deal believed to value the business at around $2.5 billion.
Full storyBank-backed software company to list on NZX
16 Nov 2021 - Performance
A software company which says it integrates the separate streams of communication in import/export transactions, is to list on the NZX just three years after it was founded.
Full storyVisual effects technologies used in movies such as Lord of the Rings and Avatar are to be acquired as part of a $2.216 billion deal.
Full storyA venture-backed tech company has put on hold its plans to list on the ASX before the Christmas-New Year holiday period.
Full storyShares in a private equity-backed company closed more than 6% down after their first day of trading on the ASX.
Full storyA venture-backed technology company has listed on the ASX with its shares rising 39% over first day trading.
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