NEWS
12/04/06: CHAMP completes capitalisation of new company
Manassen Foods Australia shareholders and CHAMP Private Equity join forces to create leading branded food supplier.
10/07/06: IES expands into specialty mining transport
International Energy Services, a portfolio company of CHAMP Private Equity, acquires Ross J. Kiernan Tipping Transport Pty Ltd. The acquisition will increase IES’s revenues to over $270 million...
18/07/06: IES acquires leading U.S. manufacturer of aviation refuelers
International Energy Services (IES) , through its subsidiary Liquip, is expanding its aviation refueler manufacturing business into the North American market with the acquisition of Beta Fluid Systems.
3/08/06: CHAMP to become a major investor in the private education sector
CHAMP Private Equity, in partnership with Petersen Investments, has signed an agreement to purchase Study Group International Limited, a leading worldwide private provider of education to international students for A$176.4 million
10/08/06: Barbarians and Other Myths
An article by Bill Ferris as featured in BRW Magazine - 10 August issue.
28/09/06: CFO Awards 2006 : Private Equity Deal of the Year
"Champing at the bit". As featured in the Finanicial Review CFO Magazine – October Issue.
2/12/06: Not as Barbaric as We May Seem
29/1/07: Lucky Country: Digging Deep
an article by Bill Ferris as featured in the Australian Associated Press Financial News Wire 01.06.07
20/12/06: CHAMP to Acquire Blue Star Print Group
An article by Bill Ferris as featured in The Bulletin, 29 January 2007.
1/6/07: Ferris launches defence
of private equity "barbarians"
6/07: Can private equity help a business?
30/10/07: CHAMP Private Equity Opens Singapore Office
CHAMP has signed a purchase agreement to acquire privately owned Blue Star Print Group, a leading diversified print and related services business with operations throughout Australia and New Zealand…
It can have its problems, but private equity investment can also bring a suite of deft skills - as well as major cash - in the right context.
12/12/06: International Energy Services on the Acquisition Trail in Australia and Asia
6/07: Private Equity’s role in turnarounds, workouts and insolvencies
The Executive Chairman of the CHAMP Private Equity group (CHAMP), Mr Bill Ferris, today
announced the opening of a Singapore office.
as featured in the
Australian Financial Review,
2 December 2006.
International Energy Services has acquired the Queensland and Northern Territory operations of Mitchell Corp, a Western Australian based transport company.
3/3/08: CHAMP Acquires Golding Contractors
7/9/08:Extract from T&I AsiaWatch
22.12.08:
Article on David Jones in the AFR Boss Magazine
02/03/09:
CHAMP Private Equity voted best private equity firm in Australia
10/10/09 CHAMP wins Excellence in Investor Reporting AVCAL Award
06/10/09 CHAMP, Castle Harlan Agree to Sell United Malt Holdings to GrainCorp
13/10/09 CHAMP, Castle Harlan Funds Complete Sale of United Malt Holdings to GrainCorp
02/03/09:
Mid-Market CHAMPions
22.12.08:
CHAMP makes significant invsetment in operating lease market
11.11.08: AVCJ announces Lifetime Achievement Award
25/9/08: AVCAL announces first Lifetime Contribution Award
1/9/08:CHAMP Acquires LCR Lindores Group
an article by David Jones as featured in Australian Insolvency Journal April-June 2007
CHAMP has announced that the CHAMP II funds, together with existing Golding Management, have completed the acquisition of Golding Contractors Pty Ltd.
DAVID JONES is running the numbers. The private equity
specialist, who has backed some rags -to-riches start-ups in
his time, is working out how many kids have been diverted
from a lifetime on the dole by a venture called the Beacon
Foundation. "School gets harder at year 10," Jones notes.
He went to a fancy private school but ...
CHAMP Private Equity is pleased to announce that the CHAMP II Funds (“CHAMP”) have made a
significant investment into the Australia and New Zealand operating lease market via the acquisitions
of Alleasing Pty Ltd (“Alleasing”) and Integrated Asset Management Pty Ltd (“IAM”) for a combined
purchase price of approximately A$150 million.
CHAMP Private Equity voted best private equity firm in Australia by readers of Private Equity International and subscribers of Private Equity Online.
This award was given by a panel of LP judges who deemed that CHAMP Private Equity investor reporting met AVCAL reporting guidelines and exceeded industry standard.
CHAMP Private Equity, and its New York based affiliate Castle Harlan Inc., confirmed today that they have agreed to sell United Malt Holdings (“UMH”), one of the world’s largest producers of malt...
CHAMP Private Equity (“CHAMP”), and its New York based affiliate Castle Harlan Inc. (“CHI”), confirmed today that Funds managed by them have sold their investment in United Malt Holdings.
CHAMP Private Equity has for a long time been a big name in Australia's private
equity industry. Now the firm is ready to step up to another level with the launch
of an A$1.5bn fund. Siddharth Poddar charts the firm's progress.
Congratulations to Bill Ferris & Joe Skrzynski who were honoured by AVCJ with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at AVCJ Awards Dinner in Hong Kong on 11 November, 2008.
Bill Ferris AC & Joe Skrzynski AO, Founding Partners of the CHAMP Private Equity group, were honoured with the first AVCAL Lifetime Contribution to the Industry award at the 15th Annual AVCAL Conference Awards Dinner on Thursday 25 September 2008 on the Gold Coast.
The bright spot was a big, pithy, solid buyout by CHAMP
Private Equity; the likes of which we love to report; no hostile takeover, no messy headlines, just
quiet professionalism and get on with the business of making money, products and better firms.
CHAMP Private Equity has today announced that the CHAMP II funds ("CHAMP"), together with existing LCR Lindores Management, have completed the aquisition of the LCR Lindores Group, one of the largest privately owned industrial and mining services companies in it's sector in Australia.
11/12/06: Bloomberg Television
David Jones discusses the Benefits Private Equity Investment.
12/09/06: CHAMP Private Equity creates leading global malt producer
11/12/06: Private equity firm of the year 2006: CHAMP & CASTLE HARLAN
At the 5th Annual M&A Advisor Awards presented in New York this year, CHAMP and Castle Harlan jointly won Private Equity Firm of the Year. The competition received a record 130 nominations, from which 21 award winners were chosen.
Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York-based private-equity investment firm, and CHAMP Private Equity, its affiliate based in Sydney, announced today that private-equity investment funds they manage have acquired Great Western Malting...
