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  • Commercial real estate
  • UniSuper, Cbus, AMP set $2.2b retail property record

    UniSuper, Cbus Property and the AMP Capital Finance have bought up positions in Queensland shopping mall Pacific Fair and Sydney’s Macquarie Centre.

  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Aristocrat shortfall clears at $47.10 vs $45.61 TERP

    Aristocrat’s shortfall auction cleared at $47.10 per share, beating the floor price, the TERP and the last traded price.

  • Salt Lake Potash
  • Salt Lake Potash hits the skids, KordaMentha called in

    Restructuring firm KordaMentha has taken the keys at ASX-listed sulphate of potash company, Salt Lake Potash. 

  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Acorn Capital in $27m top-up raise for LIC

    Acorn Capital is running a $27.1 million top-up raise for its Aussie equities LIC, after it clocked a 35.8 per cent return in the year to September end.

  • Capital raising
  • De Grey chases $125m for exploration, pre-feasibility works

    De Grey Mining is seeking to raise $125 million in a placement of new shares at $1.10 each. 

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  • Capital raising
  • Aristocrat shortfall covered at $45.60: book message

    There’s a bit of love in the air for Aristocrat Leisure. 

  • IPO
  • GQG Partners IPO price tightened, bookbuild accelerated

    The book messages were flying around the market on Wednesday morning, as brokers moved to wrap up early finishes for the GQG Partners and SiteMinder initial public offerings. 

  • Capital raising
  • Liquor company Top Shelf raising $35 million

    The largest distiller of whisky in Australia, Top Shelf International, is raising $35 million to build a distillery in Queensland.

    Yesterday

  • IPO
  • Prezzee in early talks with investment banks, funds for $1b float

    Digital gift card provider Prezzee fancies itself as the country’s next unicorn, but there is a lot riding on its valuation.

  • IPO
  • Bids fly for SG Lottery as bankers call in cornerstones

    It’s getting close to jackpot time at IPO of the decade contender SG Lottery. 

  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Riverside nabs Nabenet to double occupational rehab play

    Global private equity investor The Riverside Company has dusted off its proven playbook.

  • Capital raising
  • Medical booking platform HotDoc raising $30 million

    HealthEngine rival HotDoc is also raising funds at the moment, but for now it has no plans to go public.

  • Capital raising
  • Aristocrat’s brokers launch $73m shortfall auction

    Aristocrat Leisure’s brokers were seeking bids for $73 million worth of shares in its institutional shortfall bookbuild.

  • Investment banking
  • Goldman Sachs anoints metals and mining head for Australia, NZ

    Goldman Sachs has appointed Melbourne-based banker Gavi Friedland to run its important metals and mining sector coverage team in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Investment banking
  • What’s up with market traders at the big four banks?

    While Australia’s big banks may be home loan factories, their market trading units have also been reliable money spinners. But, some banks market divisions are not performing as well as expected.

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  • Capital raising
  • Allegiance Coal raising $30m for acquisition

    ASX-listed Allegiance Coal Limited is fronting investors for $30 million to fund an acquisition.

  • Capital raising
  • Prophecy International raising $7.7 million

    Software development company Prophecy International has tapped Curran & Co to help it raise $7.7 million.

  • IPO
  • Larvotto Resources joins new explorers headed for the ASX

    Copper and gold explorer Larvotto Resources is the latest to join the growing list of explorers headed to the ASX this quarter.

  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • ACCC kicks off review of Woodside-BHP Petroleum deal

    The competition regulator is interested in overlaps in Woodside and BHP Petroleum’s businesses in Western Australia and in exports.

    This Month

  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • TPG Capital fires starter’s gun at Greencross, triple track unleashed

    Morgan Stanley are set to blast out confidential documents for pets and vets business Greencross, in the last leg of a process to secure TPG a hefty payday.