This Month
Quadrant banks $660m for third growth fund
The six-week fundraise was oversubscribed after ultra-high-net-worth investors added funds to the pot.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
JPMorgan leads ECM league table for first time in decades; Goldies sweeps M&A
While flashy M&A draws the eyeballs, 2024 has been a remarkable year for equity desks.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Genesis Capital amasses $350m for more healthcare deals
Doctor turned private equiteer Michael Caristo and his co-founder Chris Yoo have finalised a fund, drawing interest from institutional investors and families.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
California PE Angeleno buys into Aussie energy software biz
Rennie Advisory advised on the raising, conducting a global search for a minority partner to take AZZO to the United States.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Natixis’s Mirova backs millions into EV charging biz JET Charge
Natixis Investment Managers-affiliate Mirova led the $72 million funding round via its energy transition strategy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Lendlease’s long-time bankers nervously face new era
Gresham and Morgan Stanley have been hanging around the real estate giant for years. But a new chairman might have other ideas as he settles in.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This 21-year-old has just banked $10m for his R&D funding venture
Charlie Selth brought the idea to his boss, executive chairman Jonathan Dooley, 18 months ago to create a lending model for early-stage companies.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Rich Lister-backed Vinyl Group in equity raise to fund acquisition
Sole lead manager Peloton Capital was rounding up investors at 10¢ a pop for a fully underwritten accelerated rights issue, sources said.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Lapped up at $5, unloved at $4.30 – Di Pilla’s year-end IPO shocker
How do you turn on sentiment if nothing has changed and at a time of the year when institutions turn off the taps?
- Anthony Macdonald
Arbor Capital backs homegrown scuttlebutt research firm targeting PE
The venture capital upstart has taken a minority stake in expert research platform Networks X.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
NRL star turned Rich Lister backs Brisbane healthtech WearOptimo
WearOptimo has gathered $8 million in fresh funding to get into its go-to-market strategy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Hospitality entrepreneur backs ex-BofA operative to hang out his shingle
Alex Pikoulas is busy establishing his own wealth management shop backed by Anthony Sullivan of Quantaco.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
TCorp acquires $752m minority interest in Euroclear
Brussels-headquartered Euroclear provides settlement and custody of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities, derivatives and investment funds.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
PE deal makers tipped to “get creative” in 2025 as exits mount
The payday isn’t as big for the equity capital markets bankers, a backdoor listing lacking the hoopla of an IPO. But whatever works to get things moving.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Oaktree offloads entire $70m Perenti stake; Aitken Mount on hand
Shares traded hands at $1.25 – or a 4.2 per cent to the last close.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Inside the morning meeting of the market’s biggest fee payer
The big year of deal making at David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital has been a blessing for investment banks in an otherwise patchy 12 months. Can it maintain the pace?
- Jemima Whyte
Tentacles out at Fremantle Octopus with Kidder Williams on the scene
Fremantle Octopus owns about half of the licences in the WA Octopus Fishery, but it doesn’t have the cash to put most of them to use.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
IPO-candidate Pay.com.au launches raise to fund US expansion
Street Talk understands Pay.com.au is seeking to raise $15 million via a private placement at a $303 million pre-money equity valuation.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Mark Carnegie, HongShan back $US100m crypto neobank
HongShan Capital Group and Peak XV Partners have led KAST’s $US10 million seed funding round.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
CDC Data Centres $16b sale off to the races; three big funds prep bids
Kyle Mangini, the global head of IFM Investors’ $110 billion infrastructure business, will be the one to watch.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport