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Private Equity, Transactions - Ernst & Young - Australia

Driving growth with private equity

With success comes change and private equity now faces a new set of challenges. Private equity firms are now larger, more influential and higher profile than ever before. In recent years Australia’s private equity market has matured with total private equity funds doubling in value since 2004. Sustaining fund investment, entering new markets, sourcing and closing increasingly complex deals and creating value in portfolios are now critical to achieving optimal returns.

To help our clients achieve their potential in this new environment, we bring together professionals from advisory, transactions, tax and assurance to help address investment, transaction and portfolio needs and to help deliver the returns stakeholders expect.

Serving Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have grown rapidly to become major players in the world’s capital markets and as they continue to grow, particularly in the current challenging financial environment, they require highly specialised and tailored services across many industries and geographies.

We have a long history working with some of the biggest funds around the world and our SWFs network delivers a connected approach in providing professional services to SWFs anywhere around the world. We help bring the right resources, processes and capabilities to SWFs, driving true quality, ensuring commitment and guaranteeing global responsiveness.

Pitch forks and torches

With their astronomical size, inclination towards secrecy and sudden investments in highly visible global enterprises, Sovereign Wealth Funds have triggered public alarm. Pitch forks and torches (pdf, 223kb), an article from the July 2008 edition of The leading edge looks at the newest power brokers in the global M&A market.

Battle ready

The global financial crisis is testing the popular myth that previous private equity (PE) successes relied purely on cheap debt and market growth.  Battle ready (pdf, 443kb) from the December 2008 edition of The leading edge discusses the maturing nature of the Australian PE market and the evolution of the PE business model for a future beyond the leveraged buyout model.

Study of the 100 largest private equity exits in 2007

In 2007, private equity continued to outperform public companies and build value in their portfolio companies.This is one of several key findings in our new, highly anticipated study of the world’s top 100 private equity exits in 2007. Learn more in "How do private equity investors create value? Beyond the credit crunch." 

The new financing environment

Large leverage buyouts (LBOs) may have dried up as a result of the credit crunch, but private equity (PE) firms are still cashed up and looking for deals.  The new financing environment (pdf, 394kb) looks at the emergence of the Australian mezzanine debt market and the role it is likely to play in enabling deal flow.

How do private equity investors create value?

The first ever study of private equity exits across Australia has shown that private equity achieved more than double the returns of public companies and matched the performance of private equity counterparts globally. This Australian study of 2007 private equity exits (pdf, 481kb) provides hard data on the deal performance of Australian private equity, combining detailed financial performance with qualitative drivers and influences.

 

Contacts

Bryan Zekulich
Private Capital
National Leader
Tel: + 61 2 9248 5833

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