What We Do
VCA Partners is an independent corporate advisory firm based in Sydney. We provide domestic and cross-border advisory services to public and private companies, on strategy, valuation, mergers, takeovers, acquisitions, divestments, capital market activities, and restructuring.
We act on transactions of all sizes, but our team’s heritage is institutional investment banking. In aggregate, our team members have advised on over A$30 billion of transactions. We have advised on several of the largest private equity transactions ever completed in Australia as well as the majority of the largest healthcare transactions completed in the last two decades.
We specialise in sourcing private equity for private companies, and our experience extends to most sectors of the Australian economy. Over the courses of our careers, we have advised on and completed transactions in infrastructure, industrials, professional services, consumer and retail, telecommunications, media, financial services, engineering and construction, employment services, and agriculture.
Services
We provide a complete range of corporate advisory services:
Corporate &
strategic advice
Take-overs, take-over defences, mergers,
acquisitions & divestments
Private
capital-raisings
In partnership:
Debt capital markets advice
In partnership:
Equity Capital Markets advice
Senior team
CHRISTIAN NICKS
Christian Nicks is an investment banker with over twenty years’ experience working in Australia, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. Christian spent over ten years at Goldman Sachs working in the healthcare, telecoms, industrials, financial sponsors and mining sectors. He has advised on some of the largest transactions in the healthcare sector in Australia, including the A$2.6 billion private equity takeover battle for Healthscope, the A$2.7 billion leveraged take private of DCA by CVC Capital Partners, Healthscope’s A$3.6 billion joint bid for Symbion Health, the A$1.1 billion sale of DCA Aged Care by CVC Capital Partners and Aspen Pharmacare’s A$900 million acquisition of the pharmaceutical business of Sigma Pharmaceuticals Limited.
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In 2010, Christian left Goldman Sachs to become Head of Investment Banking at Investec Australia, where he led a team of 35 professionals to substantially grow Investec’s advisory business. While at Investec, he initiated and advised on the A$1.1 billion acquisition of Spotless Limited by Pacific Equity Partners. The transaction employed several novel takeover techniques, was remarked to set the “high water mark for hostility in Private Equity takeovers in Australia”, and was ultimately successful after a campaign fought with the support of institutional shareholders. He also advised on the A$880 million sale of Ingham Enterprises to TPG, the sale of Supre Holdings to Cotton On, and advised Perpetual on its response to an unsolicited A$1.8 billion takeover approach from KKR.
Christian left Investec in 2014 to establish VCA. Christian graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an Advisory Board Member for Human Rights Watch Australia, a dual US/Australian citizen and an avid sailor.
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