Calibre Partners: deals and league table rankings

Independent advisers, Calendar 2025

Deals Calibre Partners advised on, most recent first
									Advisers
Jan 2026	Rakon	–	Bourns	Takeover	Independent expert to Rakon (target)	Completed	360.0	–	Simpson Grierson (buy-side)Rothschild & Co (buy-side)Cameron Partners (buy-side)Shanahan Partners (buy-side)Simmons Corporate Finance (buy-side)Bell Gully (sell-side)	Bourns acquisition of Rakon
Sep 2025	Restaurant Brands New Zealand	–	Finaccess Restauración, S.L.	Takeover	Independent expert to Restaurant Brands New Zealand (target)	Completed	–	–	Murray & Co (sell-side)Harmos Horton Lusk (sell-side)	Finaccess Restauración, S.L. acquisition of Restaurant Brands New Zealand
Jun 2025	Smartpay Holdings	–	Shift4 Holdings	Scheme	Independent expert to Smartpay Holdings (target)	Completed	305.8	–	Morgan Stanley (sell-side)Bell Gully (sell-side)	Shift4 Payments acquisition of Smartpay Holdings
Feb 2025	NZ Windfarms	–	Meridian Energy	Scheme	Independent expert to NZ Windfarms (target)	Completed	91.0	Renewable energy and storage	Russell McVeagh (buy-side)Clare Capital (buy-side)Wynn Williams (sell-side)Mafic Partners (sell-side)	Meridian Energy acquisition of NZ Windfarms
Dec 2024	Rural Equities	–	H&G	Takeover	Independent expert to Rural Equities	Completed	–	–	Northington Partners (sell-side)	H&G acquisition of Rural Equities

Activity

Deals by year

By announcement date; raisings and IPOs by their own date.

League table rank by year

Headline tables where the firm reached the top ten, ranked as each table opens.

Deals by sector

Sector of the business bought or funded.

Deals by size

Disclosed value in New Zealand dollars.

Firms advising the other side of the same deals.

League table positions of Calibre Partners: rank and deals
Table	2026 YTD	CY2025
Independent advisers	–	#1 (3)

Rank as each table opens (by deal value, independent experts by number of reports), with the deal count in brackets. Top ten places shown.