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ATI Global founder Christian Beck has won the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race two years in a row.

Now, for the real challenge - convincing listed equities investors to back his IPO ambitions.

Sydney-headquartered ATI Global, owner of a stable of legal software companies including InfoTrack that generated more than $1 billion in sales last financial year, is gearing up for an initial public offering.

Street Talk can reveal ATI Global’s shareholders met for an extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday evening to vote on a “liquidity event” through a sharemarket float in 2027. Sources said the resolution was approved, and founder Christian Beck and executive chairman Stephen Wood have thrown their support behind the move.

It comes after ATI last year worked through a major restructuring, during which about 60 employees were made redundant and most of the C-suite shown the door. Beck, who founded the business in 1992, took over the day-to-day running of key asset Leap Legal in 2022.

Sources told this column the strategy is working, and EBITDA growth rates stood at 20 per cent to 30 per cent compounded over the past three years.

Accounts filed with ASIC show revenue rose to just under $1.1 billion in the 2024 financial year from $883.9 million the previous year.

Read the full story tomorrow and more on the Street Talk page.

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