- Market-leading private equity firm operating in Australia and New Zealand’s middle market.
- – Long-standing, superior track record since late 90s
- – Operationally intensive, analytic and highly disciplined investment process stemming from a Bain & Co. heritage
- – Deep, experienced, senior oriented team of over 20 investment professionals
- Well established investment model focused on adding value
- – Completed 30 platform acquisitions and over 100 bolt-on acquisitions across a broad range of industries
- – Specific strategy targeting ‘underperforming market leaders’ with tangible opportunity to lift profits dramatically
- – Value creation driven by step-change improvement; >80% of returns since inception driven by profit growth
- – Institutionalised and systematic basis for asset selection, due diligence, deal pricing and execution
Current portfolio companies
- One of the world’s largest and most diversified multi-product global alternative asset management firms
- – Founded in Washington DC in 1987, now with US$174 billion in assets under management
- – Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors
- – 1,550 professionals operating across 31 offices in Australia, North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
- Focused on long-term value creation, not short term goals
- – Since 1990, has invested US$80 billion in equity in ~600 transactions and has generated more than US$76 billion in realized and unrealized gains
- – Investment approach focused on working with Management to develop a detailed growth strategy focused on long-term value creation
- – Support Management in executing their strategy through access to in-house and external expertise
Current portfolio companies
