Equiteq, a world funding financial institution and M&A advisory agency, has strengthened its ANZ-focused senior workforce with Simon Croft, who joins as a Managing Director in Melbourne.
Simon Croft brings 15+ years of expertise advising corporations on cross-border strategic M&A, capital elevating and personal fairness transactions, with a concentrate on the expertise, IT and digital transformation sectors. He joins Equiteq from rival TH World Capital, the place he spent seven years working throughout its workplaces in London and Melbourne (which he setup in 2023), specialising in expertise consulting and IT companies offers.
Notable offers Croft suggested on in Australia and New Zealand area embrace the 2025 gross sales of The Lacking Hyperlink to Infosys and PhoenixDX to Alan Allman Associates (each in 2025), and a trio of offers in 2024 – Leonardo to UST, The Lumery to Accenture and Design+Business to Capgemini. He additionally offered sell-side M&A advisory to 2 corporations that have been picked up by Synechron.
Commenting on his transfer to Equiteq, Croft mentioned: “I’m excited to affix Equiteq at a time of such sturdy momentum throughout the agency. With Australia and New Zealand changing into more and more necessary progress markets for international expertise and expertise companies acquirers and buyers, I see enormous alternative throughout the area for prime quality property to realize premium exit outcomes.”
With workplaces in New York, Boston, London, Singapore and Sydney, Equiteq is likely one of the main international M&A consultancies specialised in skilled companies and expertise. The agency closes to roughly two dozen offers per yr, and has an extended checklist of awards beneath its belt, together with being named ‘Greatest World M&A Advisory Agency’ and ‘Greatest Boutique Funding Financial institution’ at trade awards.
Equiteq’s ANZ workforce not too long ago acted because the unique monetary advisor to Proximity on sale to Methods Planning and Evaluation, and earlier, the agency orchestrated the sale of a number of corporations to Deloitte Consulting.
Welcoming Croft to the agency, Equiteq’s ANZ Managing Director Alex Monck mentioned: “We’re thrilled to develop our ANZ workforce. With market exercise accelerating throughout Australia and New Zealand, in addition to the broader APAC area, Simon’s appointment positions Equiteq to proceed to offer purchasers market-leading outcomes.”
Sylvaine Masson, Managing Director and Head of APAC, added: “We’re delighted to welcome Simon to the workforce. After a file yr in 2024, we’re enthusiastic about persevering with this momentum by strengthening our management workforce in APAC even additional, and turbo-charge our progress in Australia.”
