What they do
Ad Astra Corporate Advisory is an independent corporate advisory business in Sydney and Melbourne covering Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, advising on strategic reviews, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital raisings and government commercialisations.
- Services
- Buy-side M&A, Sell-side M&A, Management buy-outs, IPOs and listings, Private capital raising, Equity raisings
- Kinds of deal
- domestic and cross-border M&A
- Clients
- Listed companies, Business owners and founders, Private equity, Investors and funds, Government and not-for-profit
- Places served
- AU, NZ
- Network
- Investec (affiliate; Investec global investment banking network), Investec
- Licences
- Authorised Representative No. 1307017 of Ad Astra Financial Services Pty Ltd (AFSL No. 540052)
From adastraca.com.au, checked 7 Nov 2026: /, /services, /global-network
Deals
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8 of 8 deals
| Advisers | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Rouse | – | – | Merger | Financial adviser to Rouse | Completed | – | Business and professional services | Wrays and Rouse merger | |
| Apr 2025 | SecurePay | Australia Post | Fat Zebra | Acquisition | Financial adviser to Fat Zebra (acquirer) | Completed | – | Payments and fintech | K&L Gates (buy-side) | Fat Zebra acquisition of SecurePay |
| Apr 2025 | CriticalArc | – | Five V Capital | Stake | Financial adviser to Five V Capital (acquirer) | Announced | – | Software | Mills Oakley (buy-side)Greenberg Traurig (buy-side)PwC (buy-side)K&L Gates (sell-side) | Five V Capital stake in CriticalArc |
| Feb 2025 | Herron Todd White | – | Quadrant Private Equity | Acquisition | Financial adviser to Quadrant Private Equity (acquirer) | Completed | – | Property development and services | HWLE Lawyers (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Grant Thornton (sell-side) | Quadrant Private Equity acquisition of Herron Todd White |
| Jan 2025 | Western Australian freight rail network (operated by Arc Infrastructure) | – | Western Australian Government | Acquisition | Commercial adviser to Western Australian Government (acquirer) | Rumoured | – | Transport infrastructure | Western Australian Government acquisition of Western Australian freight rail network (operated by Arc Infrastructure) | |
| – | Ward Group | – | – | Buy-back | Financial adviser to the issuer | Announced | – | Industrial products and machinery | Acquisition of Ward Group | |
| – | Real Flow | – | Ophir Asset Management | Stake | Financial adviser to the issuer | Completed | – | Payments and fintech | Ophir Asset Management stake in Real Flow | |
| – | The Instillery | – | Virtual IT Group | Acquisition | Financial adviser to Virtual IT Group (acquirer) | Announced | – | IT services | Virtual IT Group acquisition of The Instillery |
Listed on their website
- Rouse strategic transaction with Wrays 2025
- Real Flow private capital raise 2025
- Fat Zebra acquisition of SecurePay 2025
- Virtual IT Group majority acquisition of The Instillery 2025
- Quadrant majority acquisition of Herron Todd White 2025
- Five V Capital stake in CriticalArc 2025
- Genero private capital raising from Acorn Capital 2024
- Fat Zebra acquisition of Pin Payments 2024
- Sum Insured sale to LSSA 2024
- Riverside majority acquisition of Virtual IT Group 2024
- RealtyAssist underwritten private placement $39 million · 2024
- CT4 sale of Arado to AUCloud 2024
- Fat Zebra acquisition of Adatree 2024
- CT4 sale of Cirrus to Veeam Software 2023
- RealtyAssist mezzanine capital raising $16 million · 2023
- MPK refinance 2023
- Venue Digital Technology acquisition of eBET $62 million · 2023
- VicRoads Modernisation joint venture $7.9bn · 2022
Transactions the firm lists on its own website, checked 7 Nov 2026. Those FundComb has recorded link to the deal.
Activity
By announcement date; raisings and IPOs by their own date.
Sector of the business bought or funded.
Disclosed value in Australian dollars.
Most often across the table
- HWLE Lawyers
1 dealCompare - Grant Thornton
1 dealCompare - K&L Gates
1 dealCompare
Firms advising the other side of the same deals.
Offices and contact
Contact
- Website
- adastraca.com.au ↗
- Phone
- +61 2 7906 2700
- Enquiries
- Contact page ↗
- Company page ↗
From the firm's own website.
Offices
- Melbourne Level 26, 360 Collins Street, VIC 3000 Office page ↗
- Sydney Level 1, 95 Pitt Street, Australia Square Plaza Building, NSW 2000 +61 2 7906 2700 Office page ↗