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Kanika Sood

Co-editor, Street Talk

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column. Email Kanika at kanika.sood@afr.com.au

Yesterday

Shaw and Partners was selling shares in tearaway software maker Gentrack on Tuesday after-market.

Shaw and Partners launch Gentrack block trade

The deal was priced at $5.97 apiece, a 5 per cent discount to the last close and a far cry from the $2.50 share price this time last year.

Former Goldman Sachs and Rothschild equity capital markets banker David Acton leads Yarra Capital Management’s private markets strategy.

Ex Goldman, Rothschild MD leads raise for logistics tech start-up

Sources said David Acton’s Yarra Private Capital Discovery Fund led the round alongside existing investors King River Capital and Jungle Ventures.

This Month

Perpetual chairman Tony D’Aloisio.

Advisory roles shift gears at Perpetual, Luminis scores broader role

Street Talk understands Luminis Partners’ role at the $2.9 billion financial services player has widened out to include broader advisory remit.

Cura runs a string of day surgeries around the country.

Intermediate Capital Group set to acquire Cura Day Hospitals

ICG knows Cura well, having funded a management buyout from Archer Capital in 2014.

Andrew Varlamos founded Pinnacle-backed wealth administration platform OpenInvest in 2017.

Pinnacle-backed wealth platform OpenInvest finds a white knight

Street Talk understands the fintech has nipped its sales process in the bud after it received a vital capital injection from the Tayside Group.

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Fusion5 is the latest technology business to hit the auction block.

BGH Capital to acquire Waterman Capital’s IT biz Fusion5

Street Talk understands the private equity firm is in the final stages of negotiations New Zealand private equity investor Waterman Capital.

Livent chief executive Paul Graves and  Allkem boss Martin Perez de Solay last month.

We’re voting against Allkem’s $16b merger with Livent, Ausbil says

The major fund management has made it clear that it believes the proposed ownership ratio doesn’t reflect the nature and the size of the ASX-listed group.

Christmas has come early for Ticketek owners, Silver Lake and Mercury Capital.

Pension, sovereign wealth funds pile into TEG’s $1.1b dividend recap

Sources said Silver Lake had lined up the $1.1 billion from five lenders, all of whom signed on the dotted line this week. 

Medical device company CathRx is seeking to meet global demand for its diagnostic catheters.

Medical device company CathRx gathers fresh funds

Street Talk understands the global medical device company has ruled off a $4 million bridge round led by Acova Capital and Bioshore Capital Partners.

Loscam has previously attempted to hive off its Australian business via Goldman Sachs and UBS.

Loscam shareholders going around the auction block – once again

Sources close to discussions about a potential restarted sales process said the company is making between $100 million and $120 million in earnings.

Managing director of Firetrail Patrick Hodgens.

Firetrail bulks up investment team

Street Talk can reveal the Pinnacle boutique has nabbed Peregrine Capital portfolio manager Matthew Thomson.

Arafura managing director Gavin Lockyer.

Rinehart-backed Arafura launches cash call, two brokers on ticket

Canaccord and UBS will oversee the equity raising.

Baker McKenzie partner Cécile Baume has left the firm.

Two exit Baker McKenzie’s capital markets team

Street Talk understands Transactional Practice Group partner Cécile Baume and special counsel Stephanie Glass have left the firm. 

Founders of men’s health tech startup Mosh, David Narunsky and Gabe Baker.

Men’s health player Mosh appoints adviser to explore exit options

Gavin Jacobson’s advisory firm has won the sell-side mandate to explore options for Mosh.

Chemist Warehouse has grown into one of the largest retailers in the country and will list on the ASX through Sigma Healthcare.

HMC Capital opens back door to Sigma-Chemist Warehouse deal

Street Talk understands about 80 brokers tuned in for a lunchtime briefing from the asset manager on Wednesday.

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Arrow Minerals calls in Delta Lithium exec, taps Euroz for raise

Street Talk understands the miner has its broker Euroz Hartleys circulating term sheets to investors with a heavy-hitting new board and management team.

An “extraordinary” $2 billion raised this year: David Di Pilla

David Di Pilla’s lucky streak at Sigma

Di Pilla’s HMC will emerge with a board seat and around 3 per cent of the new company, should the deal go through

Josh Robenstone

Ventura bus auction nears destination with preferred bidder in tow

The Victorian operator, which has been owned by the Cornwall family since 1924, was put up for sale earlier this year by Goldman Sachs.

Angus Aitken thinks the Soul Patts deal “makes complete sense”.

Angus Aitken backs in Soul Patts’ $3b Perpetual bid

The stockbroker has told his clients to buy Perpetual, saying the deal makes ‘complete sense’ and urges the board to engage with Soul Patts. 

tephen Kowal CEO of Atturra and Chris McLaughlin Ceo of Cirrus Networks, Atturra has just acquired Cirrus.

Atturra launches $50 million cash call to fund M&A

The offer price represents a 0.6 per cent premium to the last traded price.