Private Equity

Our Private Equity experience includes advising:

• Pacific Equity Partners on:
  • its sale of Manuka Health New Zealand.
  • its acquisition, through its portfolio entity IntelliHUB, of Metrix from Mercury Energy.
  • its acquisition of Manuka Health New Zealand.
  • its acquisition of Academic Colleges Group.
  • its sale of Griffin’s Foods to Universal Robina Corporation.
  • its sale of Tegel to Affinity Equity Partners.
  • its purchase of a 50% interest in SCA Hygiene.
  • its acquisition of Evolution Healthcare.
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• The Riverside Company on:
  • its acquisition of the Hiway Group.
  • its sale of Simcro.
     
• CPE Capital in respect of numerous acquisitions and divestments.
• The Carlyle Group on the New Zealand aspects of its acquisition of Accolade Wines.
• KKR on its acquisition of MYOB.
• Allnex (a portfolio company of Advent International) on its $1.05bn acquisition of Nuplex Industries Limited.
   
• Pencarrow Private Equity on:
  • its investment in The Collective.
  • its investment in Netlogix.
     
• Crescent Capital on:
  • the acquisition, through its portfolio entity New Zealand Panels Group, of the Bestwood and Kopine businesses from Carter Holt Harvey
  • its sale of 'Simply Squeezed' to Frucor Beverages.
  • its sale of Brandlines to DKSH.
  • the New Zealand aspects of the dual track IPO/trade sale process for disposal of the National Hearing Care and Bay Audiology group (ultimately divested to Amplifon in 2010 for AU$460m).
     
• Primavera Capital and Shanghai Pharma on their consortium acquisition (via a scheme of arrangement) of Vitaco Holdings.
• CDH Fund V on its acquisition of an 80% interest in The Better Health Company (otherwise known as ‘Go Healthy’), a substantial New Zealand manufacturer and distributor of natural extracts and dietary supplements.
• CITIC on its investment in LanzaTech.
• Oaktree Capital on the restructuring of, and investment in, the Mediaworks Group.
• Lazard on its sale of PPI New Zealand.