There’s six weeks of the deal-making year left and it’s time for any long-held confidential plans to either see daylight or be kicked into the new year.
While it’s been a tough year for deals, Street Talk’s expecting a flurry heading into the end of the year. There always is.
We’ll be looking for tech sector deals, action at takeover targets like Perpetual Ltd-Pendal, Nitro Software and Tyro Payments, and another hybrid raising or two.
There will also be a few auctions to hit their deadlines - CWP Renewables, Vector Metering, TyreMax - and capital-hungry battery metal plays tapping capital markets.
It’s hard to see where a big M&A deal could come from, but you never know. It’s all quiet on the BHP-OZ Minerals front, which could mean there’s something brewing.
As private equity and US strategic suitors pounce on bombed-out Australian technology stocks, Rich Lister Christian Beck has called in the bankers to find an investor for his search and legal software company InfoTrack.
South Yarra boutique Equion Capital is out with the biggest mandate in its short life - seeking a buyer for one of the country’s biggest prefab modular building makers.
Yarra Capital Management’s dipped into the directors’ club for its new pre-IPO strategy, picking up a trio of big names to help source, vet and diligence prospective investments.
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