Top Corporate Finance Companies in Australia

The corporate finance industry in Australia has been a crucial contributor to the country's economy, providing businesses with the capital required to grow and expand. In 2022, the industry's contribution to Australia's gross domestic product (GDP) was approximately 3.5%, employing approximately 72,000 people.

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MOORE AUSTRALIA461 +61 1300 137 322
privacyofficer@moore-australia.com.au

Moore Australia is a network of five independent accounting, audit and advisory firms with 14 offices and 500+ staff across Australia. At Moore, our purpose is to help people thrive – our clients, our people and the communities they live and work in. Moore Australia is also an independent member of the Moore Global network. A global accounting and advisory family of over 30,000 people across more than 260 independent firms and 110 countries, connecting and collaborating to take care of your needs – local, national and international. We have grown considerably in partnership with Moore Global’s network of independent companies so we can help small businesses and multi-national enterprises. When it comes to risk management, strategic planning for growth, business structuring and accountancy, Moore Australia is a leader in providing consultancy services and offers a cost-effective investment for your peace of mind. We aim to improve operational efficiency and compliance with regu…

MORGANS FINANCIAL LIMITED812 +61 1800 777 946
complianceanalystteam@morgans.com.au

Stockbroking | Wealth Management | Corporate Advice Morgans is Australias largest national full-service retail stockbroking and wealth management network with over 240,000 client accounts, 500 authorised representatives and 950 employees operating from offices in all states and territories. The services offered by the group are extensive and include the following: - Full service stockbroking including exchange traded options and warrants. - Investment portfolio reviews. - Margin lending facilities. - Nominee, custodial and administration management through our Managed Portfolio Service (wealth+). - Equity raisings such as Initial Public Offers, sub- underwriting and sophisticated investor offers. - Financial planning services comprising personal financial planning, retirement and superannuation planning, estate planning, and personal and life insurance. - SMSF administration. - A full range of fixed interest and income focused investment opportunities. --- We welcome feedback and c…

BARRENJOEY385 +61 1300 363 992
infosec@barrenjoey.com

Barrenjoey is a proudly Australian financial services firm. We’re uniquely majority staff owned and locally managed with global reach through our strategic partnership with Barclays. Entrepreneurial and partnership focused, we aim to deliver great ideas and opportunities to help clients succeed. We’re also passionate about driving positive social outcomes for communities that rely on corporate support. We provide corporate and strategic advisory, equity and debt capital market underwritings, cash equities, research, prime brokerage and traditional fixed income services. Full Service Offering Corporate Finance: Traditional corporate advisory transactional services, ECM, DCM and leveraged finance solutions. Equities: Cash sales, trading and execution, prime finance derivatives and corporate solutions to a global client base. Fixed Income: Cash and derivative AUD/NZD products underpinned by quantitative and analytical research and trade ideas. Research: Coverage of ANZ securities …

HALL CHADWICK206 +61 7 2111 7000
dtownsend@hallchadwick.com.au

Hall Chadwick is one of the largest and most experienced accounting groups in Australia servicing clients in every major capital city and many regional centres in Australia. Our business advisors and tax experts add value to your business through the use of leading edge techniques and immediate access to the resources of our international network. Hall Chadwick Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors has an enviable reputation for its service to clients and for the competence of its partners and staff who offer expertise services in: - Auditing - Business Services - Financial Planning - Insolvency & Business Recovery - Personal Insolvency - Taxation - Corporate Services - Property Industry

ANSARADA197 +61 2 8241 0800
maddie.saunders@ansarada.com

We bring order to organizational chaos. We’re in the business of creating long-term value for our customers – but we go about it a very different way to others. We believe that for businesses to prosper, they must seek order amid the complexity of the world and the whirlwind of daily operations. Lack of order creates an environment ripe with misinformation, disruption, and lowers business’s resilience and accountability. The lifeblood of your business is in its critical processes. The way day to day operations are set up to run, how information is distributed and secured, and ultimately, how decisions are made. Getting your governance processes right is key to your success.

WILSONS189 +61 7 4197 1600
melbourne@wilsonsadvisory.com.au

Wilsons has a distinguished history in financial services that spans over 125 years. Today, the group has significant capabilities in private wealth management, corporate finance, research and investment strategy, and institutional sales. We are domestically and globally connected, hand-picking partnerships that expand and evolve the calibre of opportunities for our clients and that ensure we attract the most accomplished people in the market to deliver these solutions. We work collaboratively, drawing on our collective strengths to exceed our clients’ expectations. Our culture and investment capability is built on deep relationships with both our clients and industry-leading organisations. These strategic alliances enable us to access the most effective solutions across: • The technology which underpins our execution, administration and business management. • Research across domestic, global and multi asset class inputs to drive client outcomes. • Operational connectivity for bal…

ORD MINNETT521 +61 1800 221 697
deceasedservices@ords.com.au

Ord Minnett (Ords) is a leading Australian wealth management group, offering a full-service stockbroking, financial planning, funds management and portfolio services. Founded in 1951 by Charles Ord and Jack Minnett after meeting in the Australian Imperial Force in the Second World War, Ords has grown via strategic mergers and acquisitions of Australian financial firms with corporate origins dating back to 1872. Focused on service excellence, Ord Minnett is a highly respected name in the Australian investment and advisory landscape. Ord Minnett’s advisers and clients benefit from our specialist corporate finance, fixed interest and asset management teams, committed to delivering unique investment offerings.

ORIX AUSTRALIA CORPORATION LIMITED216 +61 1300 652 886
novated@orix.com.au

ORIX Australia Corporation Limited was established in 1986 as a joint venture and became a wholly owned subsidiary of ORIX Corporation, Japan, in 1989. The head office of ORIX Australia is in Macquarie Park, Sydney with offices throughout Australia and New Zealand. It employs more than 325 staff and owns or manages assets of circa A$1.5 billion. The company specialises in the acquisition, financing and management of both passenger and commercial vehicles, providing commercial & passenger vehicle fleet services and commercial vehicle rental. ORIX Australia is a part of the global ORIX Group. ORIX Corporation (TSE: 8591; NYSE: IX) is an integrated financial services group based in Tokyo, Japan, providing innovative value-added products and services to both corporate and retail customers. With operations in 36 countries and regions worldwide, ORIXs activities include leasing, corporate finance, real estate-related finance and development, life insurance, and investment and retail bank…

GRANT SAMUEL95 +61 3 9949 8800
compliance@grantsamuel.com.au

Full service independent advisory Founded in 1988, our goal has always been simple – consistently deliver innovative advice that is truly valuable to our clients. Today, Grant Samuel is one of the most respected names in corporate finance across the Australian and New Zealand markets and further afield. We are uniquely positioned. Our independence allows us to be nimble, while delivering a fully integrated advisory and execution capability: • across all aspects of corporate finance from strategy and investment to financing and value; and • that is underpinned by real expertise and deep experience in each discipline. What we bring Real Expertise and Deep Experience Our senior executives bring market leading insights to each transaction built on extensive experience across transaction types and sectors. Agility Our team of over 50 executives provides a powerful platform but the absence of a corporate superstructure and global procedures also means we can be responsive and nimble …

VIVCOURT TRADING127 +61 2 9356 5100
recruitment@vivcourt.com

Vivienne Court Trading Pty Ltd (Vivcourt) is a trading company based in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2011, VivCourt trades a wide variety of products on global financial markets. These range from equities to derivatives, interest rates to currencies and commodities as diverse as electricity, cottonseed and grains. We believe that you can work in an economically motivated business, while at the same time benefitting society. We believe that you can be highly competitive, aiming to be the best in your field and reap high personal rewards. We believe that a business does not need to have profit as its sole objective to be a highly profitable business. We believe that a focus on employees: on why you as an individual go to work each day, on what drives you, on what you fear, what you truly value, on what stimulates you and on what grows you as a whole person, should be the real obligation of an employer. We are a fast paced growing trading company with multiple sites across the globe; …

ASR WEALTH ADVISERS47 +61 2 8356 9356
info@asrw.com.au

Equities Advice ASR Wealth Advisers (ASRW) is an Australian provider of investment advice and dealing services to corporate, sophisticated, professional and private clients. ASRW provides timely guidance for investments across the corporate, wholesale and retail financial markets. The ASRW approach allows our clients the freedom to participate in a wide range of financial products. ASRW Financial Planning At ASRW Financial Planning we understand that you want what financial planning can give you – A better lifestyle, security and peace of mind. You’ve worked hard your whole life to accomplish your goals and provide for your family. Unfortunately, much of your hard work can come undone if you fail to plan for protecting and managing your wealth. Corporate Advisory ASRW is an established provider of corporate advice services that can assist businesses across a range of growth areas. Supporting our corporate clients through the complexities of mergers and acquisitions, and capital rais…

HMW GROUP54 +61 7 3832 6455
info@hmwgroup.com.au

HMW Group is a boutique, city-based, full-service firm of Chartered Accountants and industry professionals with expertise in financial planning, taxation, estate planning and business structure. The HMW Group team of Partners/Directors and over 45 staff are focused on working with clients to get their business first across the line, to take control of their finances and to reach financial independence. We provide commercial and specialist advice to owner-managed businesses, corporate leaders, professionals and executives. Our specialists are well versed in your industry of operation and can build strong working relationships with your legal, finance and other professional service providers.

AMALGAMATED AUSTRALIAN INVESTMENT GROUP (AAIG)32 +61 2 8356 9356
contact@aaigl.com.au

Amalgamated Australian Investment Group (aaig, the Group or the Company) was established in 2009 to take advantage of the fragmented nature of the Financial Services industry. With our aim being to build an integrated and diversified financial services business by acquiring businesses within this sector as opportunities arise. The AAIG board have identified and acquired a portfolio of complementary financial services businesses to provide our clients with a diversified offering. These businesses include the Australian Stock Report (ASR), Ascot Securities, ASR Wealth Advisers and HC Securities. The Group is now approaching 100 employees and representatives, spanning three states within Australia, and now, following recent discussions, has an international reach, providing us with access to further potential acquisitions.

ARGONAUT66 +61 8 9224 6897
clientservices@argonaut.com

Argonaut is an integrated investment house with corporate finance, stockbroking & research and special situation financing capability in Australia. With offices in Perth, Argonaut is technically driven and focused on metals & mining, energy, agribusiness, businesses and contractors that service the natural resource sector and select industrial companies with market capitalisations between $30 million and $5 billion. Argonaut is led by an experienced executive team with deep industry knowledge, who have previously held senior executive roles at leading international investment banking and securities houses. Argonaut is focused on providing clients with high quality integrated services across the full advisory and capital spectrum during their entire company life cycle.

FIFE CAPITAL45 +61 2 9251 2777
office.manager@fifecapital.com.au

Fife Capital is an independent real estate investment and advisory firm. We undertake sourcing, management and value enhancement of real estate investments on behalf of institutions, retirement funds and private capital sources. Fife Capital is based in Sydney and operate throughout Australia, and in Asia and the United States. Fife Capital was established in 2006. The founding members have more than 40 years of domestic and international experience in property acquisition, divestment, funds management and corporate finance. Fife Capital has two primary business areas: Fund and Asset Management and Investment Advisory.

FRONTIER ECONOMICS (ASIA-PACIFIC)36 +65 9730 7380
contact@frontier-economics.com.au

Frontier Economics are an economics consulting firm. We apply economics to markets, organisations, regulation and policies. We do this to help our clients make the best decisions. Our clients know that we listen to what is important to them, and they rely on us to provide the right advice on high profile and commercially significant matters. We help our clients analyse and understand their circumstances and critical issues. Our analysis provides insight and we give clients jargon-free opinions. We base our advice on strong economic frameworks and pride ourselves on our empirical work, generating results that can be relied on and that withstand even the closest scrutiny. The methods and models we use are often complex, but our advice is always succinct, clear, honest and reliable. We find economics provides relevant structures to assist clients in diverse markets and regions, and from our offices in Australia and Singapore, we advise across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. …

FLAGSTAFF PARTNERS40 +61 1300 363 992
info@flagstaffpartners.com

Flagstaff Partners is an Australian independent corporate advisory firm established in 2009 by Tony Burgess (Chairman) and Charles Goode AC (Chairman Emeritus). Tony Burgess was formerly Global Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank, based in London and Charles Goode was formerly Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group for 14 years. The Firm’s principals bring together first class Australian and International corporate finance advisory expertise and experience, along with leading capital markets advisory capability. Flagstaff Partners provides clients with high quality corporate finance and capital markets advice, free of conflicts. Our guiding ethos is to work with clients on a trusted adviser basis over the longer term.

HENSLOW - OAKLINS MEMBER FIRM31 +61 3 8622 3333
info@henslow.com

Henslow is an independent advisory firm that supports growing companies and their stakeholders through every phase of a business’s evolution. Working with entrepreneurs, management and investors, Henslow’s holistic and independent approach is to bring the right capital or to carry out the appropriate transaction at the right time that will maximise the outcome for the company and its stakeholders. Henslow is one of Australia’s few independent full-service firms that advises growth companies on M&A, capital markets and active management services. This approach allows us to assist clients across the lifecycle of their business, from early stage funding and acquisition to exit or IPO and subsequent secondary market strategies. Our services include: • M&A Sell & Buy Side • IPO & Raising Capital • Corporate Broking • Growth Equity & Private Capital Raises • Corporate & Strategic Advice • Active Management Henslow is a member of Oaklins, a global team of 850+ financial advisory prof…

VG PROJECT GROUP PTY LTD18 +61 2 9188 8368
enquiries@vgprojectgroup.com.au

Established in 2016, VG Project Group (VG) is a Sydney-based Victoria & Newzeland project, change and development consultancy specialising in mid-tier construction. With a vision to achieve more success in the industry, VG replaces typical multi-provider consulting models with a comprehensive end-to-end service proposition. From design, development and construction, to a critical suite of compliance, systems and process improvement and implementation services, VG enables excellence through industry-leading people, processes and projects. The brainchild of Joanna Versiani and Kim Gower; leaders in their respective fields of corporate finance and construction, VG is the first of its kind in Australasia. With an enviable team of specialists in organisational process, management and construction alike, VG boasts over 25 years in the industry, and a rich portfolio of work across four management verticals; Project, Change, Development and Construction. Servicing vast sectors from Aged Car…

HAZELBROOK LEGAL20 +61 2 8036 7190
enquiry@hazelbrooklegal.com

Hazelbrook is a strategic legal advisory firm. We are nationally recognised specialists in corporate and transactional law, financial services and funds management law. Our team is outcome focused with a specific drive to make business easier for our clients. We take time to understand our clients, ensuring that our pragmatic advice is always relevant and strategically aligned with your business goals and vision; we always have your back.

Top Corporate Finance Companies in Australia

Factors contributing to growth and success

The corporate finance industry in Australia has experienced significant growth over the years, driven by various factors, including government initiatives aimed at promoting investment and financial stability. The Australian government has implemented various programs to support the growth of the industry, including tax incentives for investors and the establishment of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to oversee the regulation of the industry.

Moreover, the rise of digital technologies has contributed to the growth and success of the corporate finance industry. The availability of online platforms has made it easier for businesses to access financing, while the use of blockchain technology has enabled the creation of new financing options, such as initial coin offerings (ICOs).

Industry Growth

The corporate finance industry in Australia has experienced steady growth over the years, with the total value of deals increasing from $128 billion in 2018 to $147 billion in 2022. The private equity and venture capital sectors have also experienced growth, with the total amount of capital raised increasing from $6.1 billion in 2018 to $7.6 billion in 2022.

Moreover, the use of alternative financing options such as crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending has increased, providing businesses with new financing options. The COVID-19 pandemic has also contributed to the growth of the industry, with businesses turning to corporate finance to weather the economic storm caused by the pandemic.

Key Trends

Technological disruption has been a significant trend in the corporate finance industry in Australia. The use of digital technologies has enabled businesses to access financing more easily, while blockchain technology has enabled the creation of new financing options such as ICOs. Moreover, the use of AI and ML is also gaining momentum in the corporate finance industry, enabling businesses to analyze financial data and make informed investment decisions.

Challenges

Despite its success, the corporate finance industry in Australia faces several challenges. One of the major challenges is the highly competitive nature of the industry. Businesses need to differentiate themselves to attract investors, and investors need to differentiate themselves to identify the most promising investment opportunities.

Moreover, the regulatory environment is becoming increasingly complex, with regulators becoming more vigilant about potential risks to financial stability. Financial institutions need to maintain a robust risk management framework to comply with regulatory requirements.

In addition to the challenges mentioned, the corporate finance industry in Australia also faces several other significant challenges. One such challenge is the increasing complexity of financial markets and instruments, which can make it challenging for investors to make informed investment decisions. This complexity can also make it challenging for businesses to access financing, particularly for smaller businesses or those in emerging industries.

Lastly, the global economic environment is becoming increasingly uncertain, with geopolitical tensions and trade disputes creating volatility in financial markets. This uncertainty can make it challenging for businesses to plan and make investment decisions, leading to increased risk aversion and decreased investment activity.

Future Outlook

The future outlook for the corporate finance industry in Australia is positive, driven by factors such as technological disruption and government initiatives aimed at promoting investment and financial stability. The rise of digital technologies and blockchain is expected to continue, enabling businesses to access financing more easily and creating new financing options.

Moreover, the use of AI and ML is expected to increase, enabling businesses to analyze financial data and make informed investment decisions. The Australian government is also expected to continue supporting the growth of the industry with initiatives aimed at promoting investment and financial stability.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the corporate finance industry in Australia has been a crucial contributor to the country's economy, providing businesses with the capital required to grow and expand. The industry has experienced significant growth over the years, driven by government initiatives and the rise of digital technologies. The future outlook for the industry is positive, driven by factors such as technological disruption and government support for investment and financial stability. Businesses that embrace digital technologies and provide innovative financing options are expected to remain competitive and achieve long-term success.

Moreover, the corporate finance industry is expected to become increasingly focused on sustainability and responsible investing. Investors are increasingly looking for opportunities to invest in companies that are committed to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. This shift towards sustainability is expected to shape the future of the industry, with businesses that prioritize ESG considerations expected to attract more investment.

The COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted the need for businesses to have strong risk management frameworks. The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of having access to capital during times of economic uncertainty, and businesses that prioritize risk management and have access to financing are expected to be more resilient to future shocks.

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By Melissa Goh
Published on 10 May 2023