Australian M&A and equity raisings
1,823 deals since January 2025, each with its advisers and sources · as at 10 Nov 2026 · Venture rounds
828 deals · A$275bndisclosed · Clear
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| Date | Target | Vendor | Acquirer | Type | Status | Value A$m | Sector | Advisers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | Humm Group | – | Credit Corp Group | Scheme | Announced | – | Payments and fintech | Flagstaff Partners (sell-side)Macquarie Capital (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | AU SB Minerals | – | Clara Resources Australia | Acquisition | Announced | – | Gold and silver | Cerberus Advisory (buy-side)HopgoodGanim Lawyers (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Rana Gruber ASA | – | Champion Iron | Takeover | Completed | – | Iron ore and steel | Wikborg Rein (sell-side)DNB Carnegie (sell-side)BAHR (buy-side)Stikeman Elliott (buy-side)Ashurst Perkins Coie (buy-side)McCarthy Tétrault (buy-side)Clarksons Securities (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Hartshead Resources | – | ACAM GP | Scheme | Completed | 40.0 | Oil and gas | Blackwall Legal (sell-side)Miles Thomas (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)Yaxley Tax Consulting (sell-side)S&F Investment Advisors (buy-side)Auctus Advisors (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Watson Farley & Williams (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Chadwick Forklifts | – | Nikken | Acquisition | Completed | – | Industrial products and machinery | HWLE Lawyers (sell-side) |
| Dec 2025 | California Olive Ranch | – | Cobram Estate Olives | Acquisition | Completed | 264.3 | Food and beverage | DLA Piper (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | reverse logistics division of TIC Group (now known as RL Circular Operations) | TIC Group | Assurant | Acquisition | Completed | – | Transport and logistics | Lander & Rogers (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Hamilton Island | Oatley Family | Blackstone | Acquisition | Completed | – | Hospitality, leisure and gaming | Ashurst Perkins Coie (sell-side)Clayton Utz (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Portfolio of premium farming properties | Australian Food & Agriculture Company (AFA) | Cleveland Agriculture | Asset sale | Completed | 200.0 | Agriculture and agribusiness | Bird & Bird (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Platinum Cables | Platinum Cables Holdings | IPD Group | Acquisition | Completed | 45.0 | Industrial products and machinery | Hamilton Locke (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | two retirement villages | – | IPLiving | Acquisition | Announced | – | Property development and services | Grant Samuel (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | PNB Consolidated | – | Lion | Acquisition | Completed | – | Household and personal products | Clayton Utz (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Gilmour Space Technologies | – | National Reconstruction Fund | Stake | Completed | – | Defence and aerospace | Clayton Utz (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Kraken Technologies | – | Origin Energy | Stake | Announced | 13,176.3 | Software | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Ektimo | – | Pemba Capital | Acquisition | Completed | – | Waste and environmental services | KPMG (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | National Capital Private Hospital | certain Healthscope Group entities | Ramsay Health Care | Asset sale | Announced | 251.0 | Hospitals, clinics and aged care | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Delburn Wind Farm (205 MW) | – | SEC Victoria (SEC) | Asset sale | Completed | – | Renewable energy and storage | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Flexible Packaging Solutions | – | St. Johns Packaging | Acquisition | Completed | – | Packaging, paper and forestry | BDO (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | GROW | – | – | Stake | Announced | – | Payments and fintech | Highbury Partnership (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Hullbot (Armata Systems Pty Ltd) | – | – | Stake | Completed | – | Industrial products and machinery | Addisons (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | BlueScope Steel | – | SGH | Scheme | Announced | – | Iron ore and steel | UBS (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Electrum Discovery Corp. | – | MinRex Resources | Merger | Completed | – | Gold and silver | Steinepreis PaganinFarris LLPThomsonsGowling WLG |
| Jan 2026 | European Outlet Mall Venture (EOMV) platform | Allianz accounts managed by PIMCO | Aware Super | Stake | Completed | – | REITs and property funds | Clifford Chance (buy-side)Schoenherr (buy-side)Morgan Williams (buy-side)EY (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | MARSS group business | – | Electro Optic Systems Holdings | Asset sale | Completed | 54.8 | Defence and aerospace | Henslow (buy-side)Hogan Lovells Cadwalader (buy-side)MinterEllison (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Cannatrek | – | Little Green Pharma | Scheme | Completed | – | Biotech and pharmaceuticals | K&L Gates (sell-side)Intrinsic Partners (sell-side)RSM (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (buy-side)Canaccord Genuity (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Lady Loretta mine | – | Austral Resources Australia | Asset sale | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Bell Potter (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Lady Loretta mining leases and site infrastructure | Glencore AG | Austral Resources Australia | Asset sale | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Bell Potter (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Australian Strategic Materials | – | Energy Fuels | Scheme | Completed | 447.0 | Rare earths, mineral sands and critical minerals | KPMG (sell-side)MA Moelis Australia (sell-side)Moelis & Company (sell-side)A&O Shearman (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)SRK Consulting (sell-side)Goldman Sachs (buy-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side)Dentons Canada (buy-side)Dorsey & Whitney (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | PIHL Holdings | – | AUB Group | Acquisition | Announced | 432.0 | Insurance | Allens (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Juanbung and Boyong Stations landholding | – | Nari Nari Tribal Council | Asset sale | Completed | – | Agriculture and agribusiness | MinterEllison (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Nine broadcast radio assets | Nine Entertainment Co. | – | Asset sale | Announced | 56.0 | Media, entertainment and online platforms | Jefferies (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Diversified United Investment | – | Australian United Investment Company | Scheme | Withdrawn | – | Listed investment vehicles | Ashurst Perkins Coie (sell-side)Kroll (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Independent Reserve | – | IG Group Holdings | Acquisition | Completed | 178.0 | Payments and fintech | Hamilton Locke (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | QMS Media | – | Nine Entertainment Co. | Acquisition | Completed | 850.0 | Media, entertainment and online platforms | Jefferies (buy-side) |
| Jan 2026 | NBN (Northern NSW) | Nine Entertainment Co. | WIN Network | Acquisition | Announced | 15.0 | Media, entertainment and online platforms | Jefferies (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | The Automotive Group (TAG) | – | Alvia Asset Partners | Acquisition | Completed | – | Automotive | Maddocks (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Five operational solar farms across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria | Lightsource bp | Aula Energy | Asset sale | Completed | – | Renewable energy and storage | Ashurst Perkins Coie (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | 15 Daniel Street, Wetherill Park | – | Centennial | Asset sale | Completed | – | REITs and property funds | Arnold Bloch Leibler (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Centuria Bass Credit | – | Centuria Capital | Acquisition | Announced | – | Asset and wealth management | Jones Day (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Australian Barge Hire | – | Combifloat | Acquisition | Announced | – | Transport and logistics | Holding Redlich (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | SB SPV No.1 Pty Ltd (IPSI) | – | Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) | Acquisition | Announced | – | Payments and fintech | Bird & Bird |
| Feb 2026 | Minerals 260 | – | Franco-Nevada | Stake | Announced | 50.0 | Gold and silver | Allens (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Food Odyssey | – | Genki Global Dining Concepts | Acquisition | Announced | – | Hospitality, leisure and gaming | Baker McKenzie (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | MAAS Group Construction Materials division | MAAS Group Holdings | Heidelberg Materials Australia | Acquisition | Pending | 1,700.0 | Building materials | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side)Mallesons (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Eucalyptus | Blackbird Ventures | Hims & Hers Health | Acquisition | Completed | 1,751.8 | Hospitals, clinics and aged care | K&L Gates (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)Cooley (sell-side)MinterEllison (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Freedom Pools & Spas | owners of Freedom Pools & Spas | Latham Group | Acquisition | Completed | – | Home building and durables | Piper Alderman (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | management rights to Elanor Commercial Property Fund | Elanor Investors Group | LDR Capital | Acquisition | Announced | – | Asset and wealth management | McCullough Robertson (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Hapana | – | Microequities | Stake | Announced | – | Software | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | NewCo (Peel Mining demerged base and precious metals holding company) | Peel Mining | – | Demerger | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Hamilton Locke (sell-side)Euroz Hartleys (sell-side)Sternship Advisers (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Southern Cross Diagnostics | – | Novacyt SA | Acquisition | Completed | – | Medical devices and technology | Hamilton Locke (buy-side)Addleshaw Goddard (buy-side)Frieh, Brault & Associés (buy-side) |
Deals come from ASX announcements, scheme booklets, prospectuses, the advisers' own deal announcements and the press. How the data is built