Pacific Equity Partners

Meet the prominent private equity player buying major New Zealand & Australian businesses and typically doubling their profits 👇 Pacific Equity Partners has bought and sold Tegel Foods Ltd, Griffin's Snacks, Peters Ice Cream, Manuka Health, Asaleo Care & HOYTS Group. Its first investment was Frucor Brands International B.V. - then a corporate carve-out from the NZ Apples & Pears Board. “26 years later we’re seeing a very active market still for deals.” PEP managing director Cameron Blanks told me. PEP’s most recent deal here was its partial investment in the freshly merged wealth firm FirstCape. “We’re one of the biggest pools of capital in the market.” But it's still battling a perception problem. "You hear all the Wall Street stories, Barbarians at the Gate and all this type of thing. “But the reality is, for a private equity firm to have a sustainable business, we need to be buying businesses and making them better and then having a very clear growth story for the next buyer.” In this episode: - PEP's best deals - How it doubles profits - What business it wants to buy next - Private equity returns v Stock market returns Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gA6gc2rb Read it on the New Zealand Herald: https://lnkd.in/gneA9GUU Listen on all podcast platforms: https://lnkd.in/gk_KSGmn MarketsWithMadison@nzme.co.nz

Cameron Blanks from Pacific Equity Partners gives Sean Aylmer a 101 on private equity - including how PEP is making it more accessible, and how they helped Peters Ice Cream to double its profit. Listen here 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gXpjTBDQ Pacific Equity Partners is a supporter of this podcast episode.

We welcomed over 100 private equity investors to our Private Equity and Continuation Fund Conference held this week in Sydney. With #PrivateEquity representing an important and growing part of global capital markets, we were pleased to bring together investors to connect and share insights relevant to the sponsors market in Australia. Highlights from the event included Simon Wright, Group Head of Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets (CGM) business, who offered insight into how our Fund Finance team is supporting Australia’s private equity industry, Ric Deverell, Macquarie’s Chief Economist and Head of Net Zero, who provided his outlook on the global economy, followed by a discussion on continuation funds among experts Cameron Blanks from Pacific Equity Partners, Dominic Goh from HarbourVest Partners, Patrick No from Lazard, and Daniel Toblib (Head of Macquarie Fund Finance Origination APAC). Macquarie Capital’s Head of Financial Sponsors APAC, Dragi Ristevski, concluded the event, providing an overview of recent private equity transactions and emerging trends. Learn more about the offering of our CGM Financial Markets team at: https://macq.co/6040efzIK

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