Private Equity

Our experience

Arnold Bloch Leibler is renowned for advising clients – including local and international private equity firms and investors – on complex corporate transactions, commercial issues and disputes.

We understand the capital structures, risks and unique commercial aspects of private equity deals, spanning acquisitions, bolt-on investments, portfolio company work and divestments - this understanding informs our approach to supporting private equity firms to achieve their objectives.

We have extensive experience in obtaining regulatory approvals and navigating complex tax and regulatory issues that often arise in private equity deals. Additionally, our experience advising on successful sale mandates for some of Australia’s most influential entrepreneurs and business owners, and acting for management alongside private equity, provides our team with a unique perspective that proves valuable when advising private equity sponsors.

Our private equity team combines corporate transaction know-how with in-depth expertise across taxation, restructuring, workplace advisory and regulatory issues to assist private equity firms. As a relationship firm, we also use our strong network to facilitate links between private capital and potential investees.

“The team has the ability to think laterally, assess risk and be commercial.”

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Private Equity services

We advise PE firms across a range of areas, including:

Fund establishment
LBOs and MBOs
Take privates
Distressed investments and recapitalisations
Bolt-on acquisitions
FIRB advice
Tax-efficient structures
ESG investing
Consortium arrangements
Shareholder activism
Portfolio company advice (eg. Employment, IP, Tax), and
Trade sales and other exits.

“We were genuinely very impressed with the responsiveness and “white gloves” support from ABL.”

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Our work

Five V Capital

Advised Five V Capital on its majority private equity investment in Australian mining technology company FTP Solutions.

Vista Equity Partners

Advised US private equity fund Vista Equity Partners on the strategic investment in StarRez by Five Arrows, a private equity firm backed by Rothschild & Co, to support StarRez’s next phase of growth.

Trakka Group

Advised the shareholders of Trakka Group on the sale of their shares to Acron Aviation, owned by leading US-based private equity firm, TJC.

Anacacia Capital

Advised Anacacia Capital on its majority private equity investment in MGI Golf, a leading golf equipment company specialising in electric golf buggies, and

Advised Anacacia Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Procal Dairies, a prominent family-owned dairy manufacturing and distribution business.

ForHealth

Advised Australia's largest GP practice management business owned by BGH on its bolt-on acquisition of GP clinics and other medical businesses.

Macquarie Capital Principal Finance

Advised the division of Macquarie Bank on Envest's acquisition of PSC Insurance Group's Australia and New Zealand operations. This acquisition was part of the Ardonagh Group's larger $2.3 billion acquisition of ASX-listed PSC Insurance Group Limited.