Leading Australian buyout firm Quadrant Private Equity has closed its seventh fund at $850 million, setting the benchmark for other sponsors seeking to raise capital this year.
Quadrant Private Equity has closed its seventh fund - Quadrant Private Equity No. 4 - raising $850 million.
It's a busy time for sponsor coverage investment bankers and private equity lawyers. As soon as next week, private equity firms, with their bankers and lawyers, will begin visiting fund managers to sound out their appetite for IPOs.
Quadrant Private Equity is weighing a significant investment in Icon Cancer Care, Australia's largest provider of assistance to oncology patients.
Fifty-two years after founding one of Australia's largest private manufacturers, Zip Industries' Michael Crouch has sold to private equity in a deal estimated to value the instant boiling water business at about $300 million.
Quadrant's QPE3 fund has made an investment in Zip Industries; its seventh and final investment for that fund.
When Garry Johnson put his 40-year old automotive parts business, Burson Automotive, up for sale two years ago he could have sold it to a rival such as Repco or Supercheap Auto.
Mid-tier private equity firm Quadrant is poised to acquire aged-care operator Estia Health for about $175 million in a deal that will mark the sixth investment from its latest fund, which had $750 million to deploy.
Quadrant Private Equity has sold its last piece of New Zealand retirement village owner Summerset Group in a block trade through four brokers.
On 31 October 2013 Quadrant Private Equity was announced as the winner of Private Equity Exit of the Year at the 2013 Financial Review CFO Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney.
Quadrant returns driven by growth at Summerset
Quadrant Private Equity has made a $90 million investment in Estia Health, a leading aged care operator with over 1,100 beds under management across 10 facilities in Victoria.