Deals

Harvey Fresh has acquired New South Wales-based juice processor Nugan Quality Foods for an undisclosed sum in an effort to grow its capacity to supply juice and concentrates to South East Asia.

Perth-based advertising group The Brand Agency has acquired the Western Australian office of specialist digital agency Market United, which was part of the ASX-listed company Q Ltd.

Monadelphous has sold its stake in fellow engineering, construction and contracting company Norfolk Group for $24.4 million, reaping a tidy profit in the process.

Industrial services company Spotless has given in to shareholder demands and will allow its private equity suitor to cast its eye over the Spotless business.

Macquarie Group has appointed Perth deal-maker and company director Mark Barnaba as chairman of its Western Australian operations, bolstering its status as one of the top investment banks in WA.

Five small and mid-cap miners including Papillon Resources, Coalspur and Condoto Platinum have raised a total of $39 million in new capital to support operations that stretch from West Africa to Ca

Corporate finance deals launched or completed in Western Australia during 2011 were worth a whopping $59.8 billion, a survey by WA Business News has found.

Premier Colin Barnett has touted the wealth of Western Australia's industry barons, after one of the state's mining billionaires, Gina Rinehart, spent almost $200 million increasing her stake in pu

Rio Tinto says it will take a controlling stake in South African mineral sands miner Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) through the acquisition of BHP Billiton's 37 per cent interest for an undisclosed su

Norwegian group Yara International has secured control of Burrup Fertilisers after striking a deal with Apache Energy that will see them become joint owners of the business, while also disclosing t

MAYBE it’s human nature when times are uncertain, but when corporate finance players in Perth were asked to comment on market trends over the past year, most had a glass half-empty perspective.

THREE corporate advisory firms, each with a very different profile, stood out as market leaders in the mergers and acquisitions sector last year.

Local players in the corporate finance market faced more competition than ever before from big national and international firms, WA Business News’ 2011 survey has found.

Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says he is comfortable with the country's richest person increasing her stake in Fairfax Media.

Miners are looking to shore up their positions following a volatile 2011.

Fortescue Metals Group is considering developing its North Star magnetite iron ore project in Western Australia as a joint venture.

South African mining company Exxaro is set to buy African Iron, an Australian-listed company with iron ore operations in the Republic of Congo, for about $388 million.

BAYSWATER company Capital Recycling has hailed the awarding of a Main Roads contract as a huge breakthrough for the recycling industry.

C @ today reached its minimum capital raising target of $14 million, after slashing its price by half and lowering its goal by $6 million last week.

Euroz, Hartleys and Argonaut rank as three of the most profitable stockbroking and investment banking firms in the country.

Stockbroking firm Hartleys has joined most of its industry peers in recording a bumper profit increase for the year to June 2011, a result that is unlikely to be matched in the current financial ye

Scottish company Global Energy Group (GEG) has moved into the Australian market by acquiring a majority shareholding in West Perth-based Global Resources Network – GRN Australasia Pty Ltd in a deal

Patersons deal maker Aaron Constantine has been named Australia’s best investment banker in the high profile East Coles survey of the sector.

Indian infrastructure giant GVK Group will pay Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting $1.26 billion for most of the company’s coal and infrastructure projects in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.

UK-based bank Standard Chartered has acquired 100 per cent of Adelaide-based Gryphon Partners Advisory, which has advised a host of Western Australia based resources firms fielding takeover offers

Property investor BWP Trust has announced an increase of distributable profit of 12.2 per cent for the year to June 30, driven by fast growth in rental incomes stemming from its acquisition of 11 B

Perth-based Golden Eagle Mining has announced plans for a back-door listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.

IN what is viewed as a tough market for floats, a number of smaller initial public offerings have forged ahead with their plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange.

There has been a flurry of new Western Australian stockmarket entrants to close last financial year and to begin the new, with seven resources-focused firms from WA listing on the Australian Securities Exchange in June and July.

Law firms Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff will merge to create a 32-partner firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second biggest law firm in Western Australia.

This year’s survey of mergers and acquisitions activity in WA reveals a new ranking among corporate advisory firms in Perth.

Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff have announced they will merge to create a 32-partner law firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second largest firm in WA.