Private Equity Funds

Minter Ellison provides innovative and commercially astute solutions for local and global private equity managers and fund managers. Our team includes some of Asia Pacific’s leading legal advisers and provides an integrated capability covering all aspects of private equity, including fund formation/structuring, offshore fundraising, tax structuring and local or offshore investments.

We advise on establishing private equity/venture capital vehicles including innovative wholesale structures, stapled vehicles, partnerships (e.g. VCLPs) and offshore private equity funds. We have advised many of the Asia Pacific’s leading private equity and venture capital firms and act for numerous managers including Anchorage Capital Partners, Macquarie Group, Banksia, Bluesky Private Equity, Apostle Carnegie, GBS Venture Partners, Helmsman, Allegro Private Equity and Telopia. We also advise institutional and superannuation fund investors participating in domestic and global private equity funds.

7 December 2010

Private equity tax rulings

9 February 2010

Following the recent actions taken by the Australian Taxation Office to freeze the bank accounts of the private equity firm TPG, the Commissioner of Taxation has released two draft Taxation Determinations. The draft TDs are focused on the private equity sector of the financial investment industry.