Advisory
The Wingate Group’s advisory business unit offers financial advisory and transactional services in the following areas:
| Divestments Mergers and Acquisitions Leveraged Buy-Outs and Buy-Ins Capital Raisings Initial Public Offerings |
Transaction Structuring and Execution Investment Syndication Investment and Debt Restructuring Strategic Analysis Cross-Border Transactions |
Driving growth or managing business transformations are amongst the most challenging tasks that corporations and business owners face. Therefore, sound advice, insightful analysis and efficient transactional capabilities are imperative in ensuring a smooth execution of any chosen strategy.
Wingate has a specialised and experienced team of professionals who understand the issues that confront corporations and business owners when making an acquisition or divestment, managing family transformation or facing succession challenges.
Wingate has successfully advised a number of corporations, businesses, families and individuals across various industries.
Examples of recent transactions advised upon include:
Divestments »
- Sale of a specialty food and beverage retailer (A$70 million)
- Sale of niche food manufacturer and distributor (A$40 million)
- Sale of a leading Australian branded skincare distributor (A$102 million)
- Sale of three leading property development and construction businesses (A$80-$120 million)
- Sale of a software payroll service provider (A$20 million)
- Sale of a hardware products manufacturer and distributor (A$15 million)
- Sale of a leading packaging manufacturer (A$40 million)
Acquisitions »
- Acquisition by leading global leisure and hospitality services group of selected leisure resorts (A$40 million) and review of other leisure targets (A$25-275 million)
- Acquisition by listed financial services technology provider of technology listed company (A$50 million)
- Public company seeking expansion opportunities in the dairy industry (in excess of A$50 million)
- Offshore engineering group pursuing acquisition targets in Australia (in excess of A$10 million)
- Generic pharmaceutical company on the acquisition of a public company in the pharmaceutical sector (combined transaction value of A$15 million)
- The acquisition and merger of a construction industry information provider on behalf of a dominant player in the industry (combined transaction value in excess of A$10 million)
Capital Raisings »
- Equity raising for a large European steel manufacturer and infrastructure asset owner/operator (A$83 million)
- Equity and debt raisings for an Australian generic pharmaceutical company (A$11.5 million)
- Capital raising for leading Australian healthcare service provider
- Arranged partial equity capital raising for an international parking metering business (total transaction size A$120 million)
Business Advisory »
- Strategic review for owners of a dominant food distributor (A$120 million)
- Strategic options review for a leading publicly listed agribusiness group
- Corporate and capital structure, strategic development and raising of capital for a high growth generic pharmaceutical company
- Strategic options review and realisation alternatives for a global financial services software provider
- Strategic advice to an offshore financial services provider in developing their inward investment and expansion plans with a large Australian financial institution (transaction value A$45 million)
