Government needs to do more to help fund SME growth
CM Partners (CMP), an Auckland based boutique corporate and capital markets advisory firm, says the Government needs to take a leadership role in helping to make growth capital more readily available for small to medium [...]
Biotech innovator changes hands with top-tier firm’s help
A global livestock company Has acquired a New Zealand biotech firm with the help of MinterEllisonRuddWatts. The top-tier firm advised Engender Technologies, which was bought by an unnamed company described as a leader in livestock [...]
Buy now for $2.5b? Trade Me receives buyout offer
Trade Me says it has received a $2.5b buyout offer from a UK private equity company APAX partners - representing a 12.5% premium on its closing price yesterday. The $6.40-a-share offer is indicative and non-binding, [...]
The AI apocalypse: are robots really coming for your job?
Middlemen watch out. That's the message from a leading physicist and futurist to thousands of New Zealand's white-collar workers. Michio Kaku is touring NZ for his latest book release entitled 'The Future of Humanity'. With [...]
Multi-millions raised for cattle sex selection technology
CALIDA SMYLIE THURSDAY JUNE 2, 2016 Auckland start-up Engender Technologies has completed a $4.5 million capital raise to propel its livestock sex selection technology to commercialisation. The company won the agricultural tech category in the [...]
Pro-Pac gathers speed on the flexibles acquisition trail
Three Sixty Capital Partners were sell-side advisors to Polypak. By Graham Osborne | 5 July 2018| @PKN ASX-listed Pro-Pac Packaging Group (PPG) will raise $59.8 million to buy Victoria-based Perfection Packaging and NZ company Polypak. [...]