Private Equity

We are a market-leading team with expertise across all private equity investment strategies, including buy-out, growth, turnaround/special situations and venture investments. Our specialist team advises leading private equity sponsors in Australia and internationally, with a focus on bringing together the right expertise from across the firm to support each transaction. This includes deep capability in M&A, financing, tax, regulatory and employment, allowing us to provide a coordinated and practical approach.

We regularly work with leading private equity funds and our track record in the market is reflected in consistent industry recognition for private equity transactions and deal execution. In 2025, the firm was ranked #1 Private Equity legal adviser (buyouts) in Australia (by deal volume) in Mergermarket's Global M&A Legal Advisor League Tables, named Law Firm of the Year (Private Equity) in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers and awarded Transaction Team of the Year at the 2025 Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards.

The team was highly commercial and able to distil a highly complex regulatory environment into key deal inputs. We were impressed by how quickly they got to the heart of key commercial issues.

Chambers Asia-Pacific
Their business acumen and industry knowledge is the most extensive of any lawyers I have dealt with and if it hadn't been for this commercial bent to their advice, the transaction in question would have been seen as too difficult and not executable.

Chambers Asia-Pacific

Adamantem Capital

Advised Adamantem Capital on its investments including Micro Grid Power, Servian (including its sale to Accenture) and HyGain and MitaVite, including its sale.

Anchorage Capital Partners

Advised Anchorage on its investments including HMA Group, AWCON, Entag & Rubicon8, David Jones, Affinity Childcare, Faculties First, Acrow, Brand Collective, South Pacific Laundries, Dick Smith Electronics, Solgen, Rail First and Total Eden. We have also advised on multiple exits of the foregoing businesses.

EQT

Advised EQT on its investments including PropertyMe, PageUp People Development, Compass Education, School Bytes, Newbook, EduCo Global and SAI Global.

Five V

Advised Five V Capital on its investments including Questas, Custom Fluid Power, Dyflex, ATO Taxmate, Umwelt, 4Cabling, Attekus, Checkbox, EngageRM, and 1Breadcrumb.

Mercury Capital

Advised Mercury Capital on its investments including Achitectus, E&P, Paramount Liquor, Findex, ResourceCo, Re.Group (including the acquisition of Poly Trade), Message Media and Fifty Five Five (including its sale to Accenture).

Next Capital

Advised Next Capital on its investments including its sale of Funlab to TPG, Interhealthcare (including its sale to Healthia), Infin8 Aged Care (including its sale to MA Financial), Forest Coach Lines (including its sale to ComfortdelGro), Travvia, Compare Club, Scentia Education and Eptec (including its sale to Arlington Capital Partners).

Pemba Capital Partners

Advised Pemba Capital on its investments including Stannards, Sequana, HRL and Ektimo, ACIS (including its sale to Tasman Capital), ctrl:cyber, Smart Loyalty and its exits from Marque Group and ReadyTech (including the IPO of ReadyTech) and the sale of Vets Central to a TPG led continuation fund.

Quadrant Private Equity

Advised Quadrant Private Equity on its investments including LegalVision, Circuitwise, Southern Star Research, Grays Online, Seertech Global, End Game and Probe BPO.

Whiteoak

Advised on a number of investments including Amplify, Benchmark Estimating Solutions/MiEngineers, Electrotech/Insitec (Sovereign Capability Group), Arcadia and Zeus Street Greek.

Other sponsor clients

Advised a number of other private equity sponsors including Warburg Pincus, BGH Capital, Black Rock, Permira, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Pacific Equity Partners, Crescent Capital, Black Kite Partners, Allegro Funds, Roc Partners, Odyssey Private Equity, QIC, Brookfield, Point King Capital, Glow Capital, Arrowroot Capital, FTV Capital and Charlesbank, among others.