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.
24/11/05:
Acquisition of Miller's Retail and the Warehouse Group
Funds managed by Catalyst and CHAMP agree to acquire the Australian discount variety retail businesses of Miller’s retail and The Warehouse Group for a$200 million.
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.
3/08: CHAMP Acquires Golding Contractors
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.
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...
