Australian M&A and equity raisings
1,881 deals since January 2025, each with its advisers and sources · as at 8 Nov 2026 · Venture rounds
183 deals · A$78bndisclosed · Materials and mining · Clear
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| Date | Target | Vendor | Acquirer | Type | Status | Value A$m | Sector | Advisers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | Peak Hill Gold Project | Westgold | Great Boulder | Asset sale | Completed | – | Gold and silver | Salient Corporate (buy-side)Blackwall Legal (buy-side)Mining + Heritage Legal (buy-side) |
| May 2026 | Boral | – | – | Joint venture | Announced | – | Building materials | Addisons |
| May 2026 | COLAS hot-mix asphalt business in Tomago | COLAS Australia Group | Maas Group Holdings | Asset sale | Completed | – | Building materials | Hamilton Locke (buy-side) |
| May 2026 | Wholly owned Tanzanian subsidiaries of Ryzon Materials Ltd holding the Nachu graphite project | Ryzon Materials | Sow Good | Acquisition | Announced | 150.0 | Lithium and battery metals | Hamilton Locke (buy-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Namibian copper and gold portfolio (seven exploration licence applications) | Cancun Gold | C29 Metals | Asset sale | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | |
| Apr 2026 | Pioneer Tungsten Project | – | Red Mountain Mining | Asset sale | Announced | – | Rare earths, mineral sands and critical minerals | Xcel Capital (buy-side)Strategic Mining Exploration (buy-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Serra Negra rare earths (and niobium) Project | – | Oceana Metals | Asset sale | Announced | 14.3 | Rare earths, mineral sands and critical minerals | Hamilton Locke (buy-side)Veirano Advogados (buy-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Loyal Metals | – | PT Bumi Resources Tbk | Scheme | Completed | 79.1 | Copper and base metals | RSM (sell-side)MinVal (sell-side)Steinepreis Paganin (sell-side)Canaccord Genuity (sell-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Freshwater Metals | – | QEM | Acquisition | Announced | – | Other mining and exploration | Oakley Capital Partners (buy-side) |
| Apr 2026 | Sumitomo Metal Mining Oceania | – | – | Joint venture | Announced | – | Gold and silver | MinterEllison |
| Apr 2026 | Arafura Rare Earths | – | Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) | Stake | Pending | 82.6 | Rare earths, mineral sands and critical minerals | MinterEllison (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | ABA Biologicals Pty Ltd (AgBiTech) | – | BASF SE | Acquisition | Completed | – | Chemicals and fertilisers | DLA Piper (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Shark (BVI) | Perseus Mining | Hong Kong Matrix Golden Fortune Mining | Acquisition | Announced | 396.1 | Gold and silver | Cutfield Freeman & Co (sell-side)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (sell-side)Admiralty Harbour Capital (buy-side)Zhong Lun Law Firm (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Emmerson Resources | – | Pan African Resources | Scheme | Completed | 300.0 | Gold and silver | Thomsons (sell-side)Treadstone Resource Partners (sell-side)SRK Consulting (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | EAU Lithium | – | Cosmos Exploration | Acquisition | Completed | – | Lithium and battery metals | Affinity Capital Partners (sell-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Sintoukola Potash SA | Etablissements MGM | Kore Potash | Stake | Announced | 1.5 | Other mining and exploration | SP Angel (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Critical minerals royalty portfolio (Western Australia) | RCF Management | Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board | Asset sale | Completed | – | Lithium and battery metals | Allens (buy-side) |
| Mar 2026 | Valiant Gold | Westgold Resources | – | Demerger | Completed | – | Gold and silver | Thomsons (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Great Bear Copper-Gold-Silver-Uranium Project | White Cliff Minerals | HCD | Asset sale | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Steinepreis Paganin (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Magnetic Resources | – | Genesis Minerals | Scheme | Completed | 639.0 | Gold and silver | Jefferies (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)SRK Consulting (sell-side)Canaccord Genuity (buy-side)Sternship Advisers (buy-side)Broadstream Advisory (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Peel Mining | – | Aeris Resources | Scheme | Completed | 214.0 | Copper and base metals | Euroz Hartleys (sell-side)Sternship Advisers (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (sell-side)Grant Thornton (sell-side)HopgoodGanim Lawyers (buy-side)Jefferies (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Sierra Atacama Copper Project | – | Cobre | Asset sale | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Tribeca Capital (buy-side)Baker McKenzie (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Ontario Gold Assets (70% of Pickle Crow Project, 100% of Sioux Lookout Project) | FireFly Metals | Bellavista Resources | Asset sale | Completed | 47.4 | Gold and silver | BMO Capital Markets (sell-side)Canaccord Genuity (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (sell-side)Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt (sell-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Pickle Crow Gold Project | FireFly Metals | Bellavista Resources | Asset sale | Completed | – | Gold and silver | Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Cassels (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Pickle Crow Gold Project and exploration assets (Ontario) | FireFly Metals | Bellavista Resources | Asset sale | Announced | – | Gold and silver | Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side)Cassels (buy-side) |
| Feb 2026 | Minerals 260 | – | Franco-Nevada | Stake | Announced | 50.0 | Gold and silver | Allens (sell-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 | 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) |
| Jan 2026 | Hecla Quebec | Hecla Mining Company | Orezone Gold | Acquisition | Announced | 536.2 | Gold and silver | GenCap Mining Advisory (sell-side)Cassels (sell-side)BMO Capital Markets (buy-side)Stikeman Elliott (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 | 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 | Electrum Discovery Corp. | – | MinRex Resources | Merger | Completed | – | Gold and silver | Steinepreis PaganinFarris LLPThomsonsGowling WLG |
| Jan 2026 | BlueScope Steel | – | SGH | Scheme | Announced | – | Iron ore and steel | UBS (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side) |
| Jan 2026 | Flexible Packaging Solutions | – | St. Johns Packaging | Acquisition | Completed | – | Packaging, paper and forestry | BDO (sell-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 | AU SB Minerals | – | Clara Resources Australia | Acquisition | Announced | – | Gold and silver | Cerberus Advisory (buy-side)HopgoodGanim Lawyers (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Mt Henry Gold Project | Westgold Resources | Alicanto Minerals | Asset sale | Announced | 64.6 | Gold and silver | Thomsons (sell-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Winsome Resources | – | Li-FT Power | Scheme | Completed | – | Lithium and battery metals | Azure Capital (sell-side)DLA Piper (sell-side)RSM (sell-side)MinVal (sell-side)PwC (sell-side)Canaccord Genuity (buy-side)Allion Partners (buy-side)McCarthy Tétrault (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Alta Copper Corp. | – | Nascent Exploration | Acquisition | Completed | 151.7 | Copper and base metals | Haywood Securities (sell-side)Fort Capital Partners (sell-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Simberi Gold Project | St Barbara | Kumul Mineral Holdings | Stake | Announced | 100.0 | Gold and silver | Allens (sell-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Predictive Discovery | – | Perseus Mining | Scheme | Completed | 2,100.0 | Gold and silver | BMO Capital Markets (sell-side)SCP Resource Finance (sell-side)Fasken (sell-side)Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (sell-side)GenCap Mining Advisory (sell-side)Macquarie Capital (buy-side)Sternship Advisers (buy-side)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (buy-side)Stikeman Elliott (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Advanced Logic Technology | – | IMDEX | Acquisition | Announced | 99.0 | Mining services and equipment | PwC (sell-side)Vertumnus Lawyers (sell-side)Elvinger Hoss Prussen (buy-side)Davis Graham (buy-side)Gilbert + Tobin (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | African Gold | – | Montage Gold Corp. | Scheme | Completed | – | Gold and silver | SCP Resource Finance (sell-side)Allens (sell-side)Cozen O'Connor (sell-side)BDO (sell-side)Hamilton Locke (sell-side)Ashurst Perkins Coie (buy-side)Cassels (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Wengfu Australia | Wengfu Group | Fertiglobe | Asset sale | Completed | – | Chemicals and fertilisers | KPMG (sell-side)Corrs Chambers Westgarth (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Animal Control Technologies | – | Kiwicare | Acquisition | Announced | – | Chemicals and fertilisers | Kidder Williams (sell-side) |
| Dec 2025 | St Barbara Mining | St Barbara | Lingbao Gold Group Company | Acquisition | Completed | 390.0 | Gold and silver | Steinepreis Paganin (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Iron Mine Contracting | – | North American Construction Group | Acquisition | Completed | 125.5 | Mining services and equipment | Thomsons (sell-side)MinterEllison (buy-side)Fasken (buy-side) |
| Dec 2025 | Iltani Resources | – | QIC | Stake | Announced | – | Copper and base metals | Hamilton Locke (buy-side) |
| Nov 2025 | Venus Metals Corporation | – | QGold | Takeover | Announced | 33.6 | Gold and silver | Gilbert + Tobin (sell-side)Ord Minnett (buy-side)Arnold Bloch Leibler (buy-side) |
Deals come from ASX announcements, scheme booklets, prospectuses, the advisers' own deal announcements and the press. How the data is built