This Month
Suburban pub grub suits Westpac’s new CEO
Living in Sydney’s inner west makes Anthony Miller an outlier among big bank chiefs. The former investment banker is determined to make his firm stand out, too.
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- Lucas Baird
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
Tribeca expands distribution headcount with Australian Ethical hire
The firm, home to well-known fund managers including Ben Cleary and John Stover, has doubled its distribution headcount with new hires in Sydney and Singapore.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
PE firm Adamantem Capital swoops on IPO-candidate Mason Stevens
Street Talk understands an agreement was signed between the two parties on Wednesday morning, handing over the keys to 100 per cent of the company.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
TPG Capital weighs new options for Novotech’s future
Street Talk understands TPG is weighing up a bunch of complicated options for its $4 billion clinical research group.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Private equity shop Whiteoak adds to technology streak with Avolution
Managing director Greg Garvin has led majority investment in the business architecture modelling tool.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Private equity’s musical chairs rub salt into sore wounds
These trades drive public and private markets investors further apart when they need each other more than ever.
- Anthony Macdonald
Barrenjoey stokes political debate over APRA’s home-lending policy
The investment bank says a Coalition-led Senate committee report last month – challenging the prudential regulator on first home buyers – “appears logical”.
- James Eyers
Barrenjoey equities partner exits the Vertical Village
Street Talk understands founding partner Ben Scott has abruptly left the firm and the Chris Williams-led team.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Brookfield in advanced talks to buy Loscam Asia-Pacific division
While there have been plenty of false starts in the efforts of Loscam’s owners to exit the business, sources said the transaction was on track to sign soon.
- 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
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
PE giant Bain Capital zeros in on $2b Insignia; BofA on hand
Street Talk understands Bain Capital is running the ruler over ASX-listed over $2 billion ASX-listed financial services giant Insignia Financial.
- 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
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
Bain, GIC selldown at Judo Capital; Goldman Sachs launches block trade
Shares in the business bank have run up 124 per cent over the past year giving the pair an opportunity to sell.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Canaccord claims another buyside scalp; lures high-profile fundie
The Melbourne-based portfolio manager is well known to Canaccord having spent the last eight years at Millennium, the $100 billion hedge fund founded in New York by Iggy Englander.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Barrenjoey launches $16.5m Cettire block trade
About 15 million shares of the online retailer traded hands at $1.10 per share on Wednesday morning.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport