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Private Capital

Private Capital is reshaping Australian business: more sponsors, more capital, more complexity. Increasingly, Private Capital plays a critical role across the economy - funding growth, acquisitions, infrastructure, real estate and special situations, while complementing bank and public markets. In this environment, decision-makers are balancing a more complex mix of:  

  • execution risk and certainty of funding; 
  • liquidity, valuation and disclosure expectations; 
  • bespoke structures across the capital stack; and 
  • reputation, governance and stakeholder scrutiny at board and investment committee level. 

Whether your strategy involves buy-out, growth, real estate, infrastructure or distress - in public or private markets - the legal requirements rarely stay within a single practice area. 

MinterEllison combines our leading Private Capital transactional team with specialist expertise across FDI, merger clearance, ECM, leveraged finance, tax, real estate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory and restructuring - working as one integrated team. 

We advise all sponsors, fund managers, institutional investors, family offices and corporates on structuring, negotiating and executing Private Capital transactions - leveraging integrated support across the whole firm. 

How we can help

The Australian Private Capital market continues to attract significant inbound investment alongside a growing domestic sponsor community. Leveraged finance documentation, cross-border tax structuring, FIRB, merger clearance, sector regulation and post-acquisition workforce complexity each carry their own timeline and their own risk. In this environment, coordination across disciplines is as important as depth within them. 

We bring together senior practitioners across every discipline. Our pricing approach is structured around certainty and outcomes reflective of a partnership approach with our clients. 

  • Leveraged finance
  • Private equity
  • Infrastructure
  • Real estate
  • Continuation vehicles
  • Funds formation
  • Tech and AI
  • Tax
  • Merger clearance
  • Energy transition
  • Health
  • FIRB approvals

 

Knowledge and expertise

Our team has advised on some of the most significant private equity transactions, infrastructure acquisitions, real estate deals, fund formations and private credit structures in the Australian market. We are consistently recognised as a leading firm across M&A, FIRB, infrastructure, restructuring and investment funds. We partner with Legora and leverage other AI tools to provide benefits to all our Private Capital clients - in both speed of execution and cost efficiencies.   

Our Private Capital team has advised Australia's most active domestic and international sponsors across the full range of transactions. Our recent experience spans the breadth of Private Capital activity in Australia, including: 

  • Private equity
  • Private credit
  • Continuation Vehicles and Fund formation
  • Infrastructure and digital assets
  • Real estate
Private equity

Private Equity: buy-out and growth equity transactions, public-to-private schemes of arrangement, multi-asset bolt-on programs and sponsor exits across health, consumer, technology, defence and industrial sectors.

Private credit

Private credit: leveraged and acquisition finance, direct lending, unitranche, mezzanine and NAV facilities, and complex restructuring, acting for lenders and borrowers across the capital stack.

Continuation Vehicles and Fund formation

Continuation Vehicles and Fund formation: establishment and structuring of private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit funds; GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles; InsurTech and fintech investments; and cross-border fund deployments into Australia.

Infrastructure and digital assets

Infrastructure and digital assets: acquisition and financing of data centres, digital infrastructure, energy transition assets and transport infrastructure, for sponsor-backed and institutional investors.

Real estate

Real estate: private equity real estate acquisitions, joint ventures, fund structuring and portfolio transactions across commercial, industrial and alternative asset classes.

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