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Roc Partners debuts multi-strategy PE fund with $160m seed portfolio

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Mar 25, 2025 – 5.00am

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Michael Lukin’s Roc Partners is betting on high-net-worth investors’ voracious appetite for private markets assets ahead of the launch of an Australia-first fund that would hunt for deals from early-stage start-ups and vanilla buyouts to turnaround plays.

Michael Lukin-run Roc Partners is raising a new fund.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.