Quadrant Private News Today

Investment firm Quadrant Private Equity is allegedly looking to dispose of Darrell Lea for around A$1bn ($669m).

Darrell Lea’s owner reportedly plans to put the chocolate and liquorice maker on the market in the second half of this year.

Bapcor has some terrific businesses, but the ASX-listed auto parts group as a whole hasn’t been firing for investors. Change is coming.

The best operators know how to strike a deal, and in 2024, there’s plenty of dry powder and more pressure to deploy.

Adore Beauty entered the ASX in late 2020 with a market capitalisation of $650 million, enticing more women to invest for the first time. Now the gloss has worn off.

Australia’s largest integrated provider of cancer care services has penned a new deal with Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity.

Queenslanders Cathie Reid and Stuart Giles are teaming up with the retailing giant with the aim of building a “game changer” network of chemists inside hospitals.

This edition features sobering news from one of the largest investors in the world and other significant private market developments.

A month after taking over Henry Riley, Australian firm TSA Management has made a second UK acquisition.

It is understood the senior private equity dealmaker began a mutually agreed staggered retirement in March.