Pacific Equity Partners

PEP is Australasia’s largest private markets firm, with A$18 billion AUM across various investment strategies. Since its founding in 1998, PEP has made more than 200 investments including bolt-ons, has engaged in A$54 billion of transactions, including both acquisitions and exits, and has delivered a 28% average Net IRR p.a. across the closed end funds. These results are built on a team-based approach of apprenticeship, long term experience, aligned incentives – and a disciplined investment focus, that has delivered ‘best in class’, consistent results for our investors and partners over the last 27 years. Our long-term investors include the world’s largest and most experienced investment institutions and sovereign wealth funds, as well as private wealth investors. PEP has been the recipient of various industry awards over the past 27 years, including the Firm of the Year Award from the Australian Investment Council (AIC) in 2024 and 2025.

TPG

TPG is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $246 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.

Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street’s 90+ investment professionals focus on five strategies: primary fund partnerships, secondary transactions, co-investments, direct growth equity company investments, and private credit deals. Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles by drawing on 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships. The firm is 100% employee-owned and has $51 billion in assets under management. Adams Street maintains a worldwide presence with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Anacacia Capital

Anacacia Capital is a leading Australian private fund manager, including focused on smaller mid-market growth buyouts. The firm has won numerous awards historically including the Australian Investment Council Firm of the Year and Best Small Cap Investment of the Year. Anacacia is raising Anacacia Private Equity IV in 2024 after a successful first close late in 2023.

Anacacia manages >A$800m and invests into established small-medium enterprises that are managing ownership change and growth. The firm’s private equity funds make buyout and control investments into unlisted companies. The firm also manages the synergistic funds that can invest into small listed companies, that helps differentiate Anacacia’s private equity offering to business owners. Anacacia provides strategic insight and capital to outstanding management teams to help businesses achieve better growth and diversification.

Anacacia typically focuses on profitable companies with annual revenues of $20 million to $500 million per annum and has formerly led investments in successful businesses including Appen, Big River, Home Appliances, Lomb Scientific, Rafferty’s Garden and Yumi’s Quality Foods.

Carta

Carta is the leading provider of world-class software purpose-built for everyone in private capital.

We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160 countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $182B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.

Crescent Capital Partners

Founded in 2000, Crescent Capital Partners is one of the oldest and most successful private equity and alternative asset management firms in Australia.  Crescent’s returns typically come from a value-add strategic approach to all investments with a team of 30 investment professionals in its core fund alone.

Crescent is the largest investor in healthcare in Australia with typically 50% of each fund invested in the sector, with the balance in industrial, services, B2B and technology-services sectors. Today Crescent runs a multi fund strategy alongside its core PE fund with a lower mi-market Growth Fund I, a Corporate Loan Credit fund and active Listed Equities fund. 

Crescent has specialist consultant teams responsible for each of the related investment strategies with a large team of 45 investment and management professionals.

In its 26 years, Crescent has been a consistent global top quartile investment manager (as measured by Cambridge) in DPI, TVPI and IRR. This success is founded on a well-disciplined investment process as well as a stable partnership group and strong relationships in the Australian financial market.

The strength of our relationships has led us to expand our offering to investors which includes launching a unique Corporate Loan Fund to the institutional and wholesale market as well as an Evergreen PE fund based solely on Crescent strategies.

Our Growth Fund I is a natural extension of our expertise but now into the lower-mid market as well where Crescent has had such success over the years. The same investment process, discipline and IC oversee the investment decisions and management of portfolio companies. 

In the Listed Equities market, our investment strategy is aligned with our PE business taking advantage of our analysis in different industry sectors and applying these learnings in a listed environment alongside identifying high quality, high growth investments.

Crescent Capital Partners is proud to support the AVCJ Conference in 2026.

Folklore Ventures

Folklore Ventures is a leading Australian early stage VC firm investing in ANZ software and advanced technology startups.

Founded in 2014, Folklore performs in the top decile for all of its funds. With $150m AUM, Folklore has made investments into globally successful companies such as Auror, Wonde and HealthMatch.

Folklore is known for its investment rigour and allocating discipline. As a 'first cheque to forever' VC, Folklore aims to be the first investor into a startup and to compound returns by allocating throughout the investment lifecycle. Its long term focus areas include AI and data networks, robotics and automation, health tech and B2B SaaS.

Park Square Capital

Park Square Capital is a leading private credit manager, providing senior debt, mid-market direct loans, junior debt, and structured equity to private equity-backed companies in Europe and the US. Park Square has invested more than $27 billion since 2004, and currently manages over $16 billion of capital on behalf of its investors. Park Square has more than 120 staff, with ten offices including London, New York, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Seoul, Tokyo, Dallas and Sydney. Park Square was recently recognised as “Best Performing Direct Lender in Europe” by Preqin and “Lender of the Decade in Europe” by PDI.

Siguler Guff

Siguler Guff is a multi-strategy private markets investment firm which, together with its affiliates, has approximately $18 billion of assets under management. With 30 years of experience investing in private markets, Siguler Guff seeks to generate strong, risk-adjusted returns by focusing opportunistically on market niches. Siguler Guff’s investment products include multi-manager funds, direct investment funds and customized separate accounts targeting specific areas of compelling opportunity. The Firm’s core investment strategies include Small Buyout, Emerging Markets, Opportunistic Credit, Real Estate and Small Business Credit. Siguler Guff’s institutional investment knowledge, sector immersion approach and longstanding relationships provide access to compelling investment opportunities within each of its targeted strategies. Founded in 1991 within PaineWebber, Siguler Guff became an independent firm in 1995. The Firm has served more than 800 institutional clients, including corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, government agencies and financial institutions, and more than 1,000 family office and high net worth investors. Headquartered in New York, Siguler Guff maintains offices in Boston, Houston, West Palm Beach, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Wellington Management

Tracing its history to 1928, Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 3,000 clients in more than 60 countries. The firm manages more than US$1.3 trillion, including US$48+ billion in alternatives. As a private partnership whose only business is investment management, the firm is able to align its long-term views and interests with those of its clients. The firm offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets, including equity, fixed income, multi-asset, sustainable investing, and alternative strategies including private assets. 

Our private markets platform spans a broad range of capabilities, including venture, growth equity and private credit. Our private markets team includes specialists who draw on backgrounds as entrepreneurs, doctors, and scientists. We tap into the firm’s broad investment capabilities, and believe our reputation, deep industry expertise, and asset size attract a wide range of potential private investments. We invest globally in a wide range of deals across the private market spectrum and are able to invest in small private companies as well as participate in large capital raises.

All figures are for the Wellington Management Group of companies as of 30 September 2025.

AIMA

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than US$3 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets.

AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry.

AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 250 members that manage over US$1 trillion of private credit assets globally.  

AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).

CAIA

CAIA Association is a global network of forward-thinking investment professionals, redefining the future of capital allocation in a world where traditional and alternative converge. United by a commitment to improving investment outcomes, we lead with authority, educate to inspire, and connect people who turn insight into action.

GPCA

The Global Private Capital Association (GPCA), which was founded as the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) in 2004, is a non-profit, independent membership organization representing private capital investors who manage more than USD2t in assets across Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Our mission is to connect and influence key market participants, promoting the sectors, strategies and deals that will drive investment returns and meet societal needs. A cornerstone of GPCA’s work is generating proprietary data, intelligence and deal cases to drive transparency and showcase innovation from across global markets.

Asia Business Law Journal (ABLJ)

Law.asia is an award-winning portal providing news, analysis and expert advice on business law in Asia to in-house counsel, lawyers in private practice and other business and legal leaders. It features the proprietary editorial content and archives of our premium legal magazines – Asia Business Law Journal, China Business Law Journal and India Business Law Journal – along with videos, law firm listings, awards and much more. Produced by Law.asia Limited, an independent media company, Law.asia is multilingual, offering content in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.