Advisory boutique · Sydney
Highbury Partnership
- Deals
- 12
- M&A
- 8
- Equity raisings
- 4
- Latest
- Aug 2026
What they do
Highbury Partnership is a Sydney-based strategic and financial adviser to entrepreneurs, sponsors, senior management teams and Boards. Its services cover listed M&A, asset M&A, equity capital markets and IPO advice.
- Services
- Takeovers and schemes, Sell-side M&A, Buy-side M&A
- Deal size
- Recorded deals: median A$194m, from A$62m to A$1.9bn
- Clients
- Business owners and founders, Private equity
- Licences
- AFSL 434 566
- Founded
- 2013
From highburypartnership.com, checked 7 Nov 2026: /, /client-services/, /contact/
Deals
Columns
12 of 12 deals
| Advisers | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | Benmax | – | Firmus Technologies | Acquisition | Financial adviser to Firmus Technologies (acquirer) | Announced | – | Data centres | Firmus Technologies acquisition of Benmax | |
| May 2026 | BWP Trust | – | – | Entitlement offer | Financial adviser to the issuer | Completed | 228.0 | REITs and property funds | Morgan Stanley (lead manager)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (issuer) | BWP Trust entitlement offer |
| May 2026 | SkinKandy | SaleCo | – | IPO | Financial adviser to the issuer | Listed | 160.0 | Household and personal products | Barrenjoey (lead manager)Morgans (lead manager)Gilbert + Tobin (issuer)LegalVision (issuer)Wynn Williams (issuer)KPMG (issuer)Frost & Sullivan (issuer) | SkinKandy IPO |
| Mar 2026 | The Koala Company | – | – | IPO | Financial adviser to the issuer | Listed | 68.1 | Home building and durables | Barrenjoey (lead manager)Morgans (lead manager)Gilbert + Tobin (issuer)KPMG (issuer) | The Koala Company IPO |
| Jan 2026 | GROW | – | – | Stake | Financial adviser to the issuer | Announced | – | Payments and fintech | Stake in GROW | |
| Nov 2025 | land lease community assets | Living Gems | Hometown Australia | Asset sale | Financial adviser to Living Gems (seller) | Announced | – | Property development and services | Hometown Australia acquisition of land lease community assets | |
| Sep 2025 | Firmus Technologies | – | – | Stake | Financial adviser to the issuer | Announced | 1,850.0 | Data centres | Stake in Firmus Technologies | |
| Jul 2025 | Mad Paws Holdings | – | Rover Group | Scheme | Financial adviser to Mad Paws Holdings (target) | Completed | 62.0 | Retail and e-commerce | Talbot Sayer (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (buy-side)Stantons (sell-side)Crowe (sell-side) | Rover Group acquisition of Mad Paws Holdings |
| Jul 2025 | Pet Chemist | Mad Paws Holdings | – | Acquisition | Financial adviser to Mad Paws Holdings (seller) | Announced | – | Retail and e-commerce | Acquisition of Pet Chemist | |
| Jun 2025 | Wesfarmers | – | – | Acquisition | Financial adviser to BWP Management (acquirer) | Announced | – | REITs and property funds | Corrs Chambers Westgarth (buy-side)Deloitte (sell-side) | Acquisition of Wesfarmers |
| Jun 2025 | GemLife Communities Group | – | – | IPO | Financial adviser to the issuer | Listed | – | Property development and services | J.P. Morgan (lead manager)Morgan Stanley (lead manager)Morgans (lead manager)Ord Minnett (lead manager)Wilsons Advisory (lead manager)LGT Wealth Management Australia (lead manager)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (issuer)Deloitte (issuer)PwC (issuer)Chadwick Property Valuers (issuer) | GemLife Communities Group IPO |
| May 2025 | StoreLocal | principals of the StoreLocal Group | entities managed by Blackrock | Acquisition | Financial adviser to StoreLocal (target) | Completed | 440.0 | REITs and property funds | Hall & Wilcox (sell-side) | entities managed by Blackrock acquisition of StoreLocal |
Listed on their website
- Sole financial adviser on acquisition of Benmax. $300 million · 2026
- Sole financial adviser on initial public offering. $246 million · 2026
- Sole financial adviser on non-renounceable entitlement offer. $228 million · 2026
- Sole financial adviser on Series E Capital Raise. 2026
- Sole financial adviser on a land lease community asset sale to Hometown Australia. 2025
- Sole financial adviser on pre-IPO equity raising valuing Firmus at $6 billion. $500 million · 2025
- Sole financial adviser on pre-IPO equity raising valuing Firmus at $1.85 billion. $330 million · 2025
- Strategic adviser on sale of founder equity to FOX Corporation. 2025
- Sole financial adviser on sale via Scheme of Arrangement with Rover Group and divestment of Pet Chemist. $62 million · 2025
- Sole financial adviser on internalisation of BWP’s management functions and lease reset and extension. $142.6 million · 2025
- Sole financial adviser to StoreLocal on its sale to entities managed by Blackrock. c. $400 million · 2025
- Sole financial adviser on Pre-IPO Convertible Note. 2024
- Sole financial adviser to IBC on takeover offer from Aveo Group. $434 million (100% basis) · 2024
- Sole financial adviser to IBC on renounceable entitlement offer. Up to $880 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser on Series D capital raise. $66 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser on NDIS plan manager acquisition. 2024
- Financial adviser on institutional placement. $80 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser on sale of a portfolio of land lease community assets to Avid Property Group. $287 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser to Plenary on sale of 49% shareholding to ADQ. c. $1 billion · 2024
- Joint financial adviser to Macmahon on its acquisition of Decmil Limited via scheme of arrangement. $127 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser on sale of AGL’s Surat basin gas production, processing, and storage assets to PZE Limited. 2024
- Sole financial adviser on proposed 100% scrip merger with Newmark Property REIT. $517 million · 2024
- Sole financial adviser on sell-down by founder via an underwritten block trade. $100 million · 2023
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
Firms advising the other side of the same deals.
Repeat clients
- Firmus Technologies2 deals
- Mad Paws Holdings2 deals
Offices and contact
Contact
- Website
- highburypartnership.com ↗
- Phone
- +61 2 8188 1147
- Enquiries
- Contact page ↗
From the firm's own website.
Offices
- Sydney Level 12 The Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, NSW 2000 +61 2 8188 1147 Office page ↗