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Top 25 Buyout firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 210 buyout firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 1,459 professional contacts across them, including 880 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers buyout firms headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest buyout firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PEP is Australasia’s largest private markets firm, with A$19 billion AUM across various investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alceon was founded in 2010 by a group of senior investment professionals who believed private capital could be more personal, more principled, and more aligned.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roc Partners is a specialist private markets investment firm with approx.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crescent Capital Partners (Crescent) is one of the oldest and most successful Australian-based private equity and alternative asset firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pemba Capital Partners specialises in forming buy-and-build partnerships with private business owners and managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Allegro is one of Australia’s most-awarded firms in the private equity investing space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1996, River Capital is an investment firm with an uncompromising commitment to investor and community success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Potentia is a private equity firm that believes in the transformative power of technology to build tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CPE Capital (CPEC) undertakes control buyout transactions, enters into founder partnerships and provides growth investments for mid-market companies in Australasia, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RW Capital is a leading investment firm in Australia and New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whiteoak is a Australian private investment firm with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, and a distinctive approach to investing in private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Armitage Associates is Australia and New Zealand’s leading investment partner for medium sized businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M.H.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1984, Melbourne-based Advent Partners is one of Australia’s most experienced private equity firms having invested in over 90 businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tulla Group is the Australian-owned investment group of the Maloney family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TDM Growth Partners is a global investment firm with offices currently in Sydney and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Myer Family Investments (MFI) is a private investment company whose shareholders are members of the Sidney and Merlyn Myer family and related entities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1969, the Mitchell Group have successfully developed and invested in companies that innovate, create value and do things in 'a better way'.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PieLAB's purpose is to develop people and help them build great businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marshall Investments is a private investment company and office for the Marshall family based in Martin Place, Sydney.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HEAL is a growth stage private equity fund manager focused on revenue generating growth businesses in the health, education and related lifestyle sectors with the potential for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quadrant was established in 1996 and has grown to be one of the leading private equity investors in Australia and New Zealand having raised 11 funds with total capital of A$6.4…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2014, Roadnight Capital was founded to provide exceptional risk adjusted investment opportunities for investors and innovative capital solutions for businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2010, Mercury Capital ("Mercury") is a Sydney based private equity firm managing over A$1 billion in funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed in 2009, Spire Capital Pty Ltd (Spire) is a global private markets specialist and holds a wholesale Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: buyout firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names buyout firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of buyout firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name buyout firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Buyout firms based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 210 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among buyout firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “buyout firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names buyout firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among buyout firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 880 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Buyout firms by metro
- Buyout firms in Sydney102
- Buyout firms in Melbourne32
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names buyout firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many buyout firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 210 buyout firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Pacific Equity Partners, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most buyout firms?
Sydney leads with 102 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (32) and Brisbane (20).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 880 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 210 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.