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As sponsors face greater pressure from investors to address liquidity and deployment demands, we expect private equity backed transactions in New Zealand to ramp up further in 2025.
In addition to platform investments, we anticipate continued activity in GP-led secondaries, minority and co-investments, club deals, take-privates and carve-out transactions.
The centre-right coalition Government is pursuing a strong pro-growth policy platform, including a more welcoming foreign investment regime supported by faster and lighter consent processes, although there are also proposed changes to tighten New Zealand’s competition law regime.
We outline the New Zealand private equity landscape in our latest publication.