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We are a value-add partner focused on delivering growth outcomes for our portfolio companies and investors alike. Our results speak for themselves.

Through our deep inhouse expertise assisting emerging and growth companies across Australia and New Zealand since our founding in 2000, Crescent Capital Partners has completed more than 50 foundation investments and assisted our portfolio companies with over 200 follow-on acquisitions.

Our Advantages

Crescent Capital is a leading Australian private equity firm.

Experienced Team

Our team have been drawn from top tier strategy consulting practices and operating leadership roles in industry. The in-house depth and breadth of consulting and operating skill sets provides support for portfolio companies to achieve their potential.

Disciplined Approach

With a reputation for delivering strong performance through a structured and disciplined approach to investment management, our team works actively alongside senior management to drive organic growth and value creation in investee companies. We have a track record of expanding Australian businesses globally with over [50]% of portfolio companies having a global presence.

Track Record

We are a top quartile manager on global metrics and have over $3 billion in Funds Under Management.

Long-Term Vision

We take great pride in building long term partnerships with our investors based on an established reputation for delivering consistent strong performance. Investors in our funds include pension funds, endowments, family offices and wealth management groups in Australia and globally.

Responsibility

As a member of the Australian Investment Council, we are bound by a set of member standards including the Australian Investment Council Code of Conduct, as well as responsible investment and valuation guidelines.

Active Partnership

We are an equity partner that brings more than money to the relationship. With deep in-house expertise, we provide the support to accelerate growth and performance in our portfolio companies.

Clear Focus

We invest in middle market companies based in Australia and New Zealand with enterprise values of $50m to $500m.

Diverse Portfolio

We have a diverse portfolio across healthcare, industrials, financial services, technology, education and consumer brands. In particular, in the past 20 years Crescent has been the most active private equity manager in healthcare in Australia.

Experienced Team

Our team have been drawn from top tier strategy consulting practices and operating leadership roles in industry. The in-house depth and breadth of consulting and operating skill sets provides support for portfolio companies to achieve their potential.

Disciplined Approach

With a reputation for delivering strong performance through a structured and disciplined approach to investment management, our team works actively alongside senior management to drive organic growth and value creation in investee companies. We have a track record of expanding Australian businesses globally with over [50]% of portfolio companies having a global presence.

Track Record

We are a top quartile manager on global metrics and have over $3 billion in Funds Under Management.

Long-Term Vision

We take great pride in building long term partnerships with our investors based on an established reputation for delivering consistent strong performance. Investors in our funds include pension funds, endowments, family offices and wealth management groups in Australia and globally.

Responsibility

As a member of the Australian Investment Council, we are bound by a set of member standards including the Australian Investment Council Code of Conduct, as well as responsible investment and valuation guidelines.

Active Partnership

We are an equity partner that brings more than money to the relationship. With deep in-house expertise, we provide the support to accelerate growth and performance in our portfolio companies.

Clear Focus

We invest in middle market companies based in Australia and New Zealand with enterprise values of $50m to $500m.

Diverse Portfolio

We have a diverse portfolio across healthcare, industrials, financial services, technology, education and consumer brands. In particular, in the past 20 years Crescent has been the most active private equity manager in healthcare in Australia.

Seeking a private equity investment?

Crescent Capital Partners invests in companies and sectors with growth potential within Australia & New Zealand or internationally.

We are interested in sectors where we can contribute to consolidation or act as a disrupter, particularly in cyclical opportunities or underperforming companies where we can drive significant improvement.

Sector Focus

Crescent Capital Partners is sector agnostic with investments across our portfolio from Industrials, Services and Technology to our reputation-leading Healthcare portfolio, which is our largest investment area by sector. 

Separate to our core private equity fund, we have a specialist Consumer Fund focused entirely on developing  Australian and New Zealand consumer brands looking for expansion through capital growth. This is a differentiated specialist strategy with its own market leading experts driving possibilities in this sector.

Consumer fund

Healthcare Experience

With approximately half of our investments in healthcare and allied services, we intuitively understand what it takes to support healthcare teams to grow businesses through the next stage of growth.

We are flexible in our investment approach which can take the form of minority or majority investment, buyout, fund for growth or generational change.

Healthcare fund

If you’re looking for capital and an active partner to accelerate the growth of your business, or you are thinking about exiting by bringing in new investors, please complete the form below or call a member of our Business Development team.

Peter Scrine

Director

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Daniel Waine

Director

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Crescent has an active partnership ethos, which is a highly structured and disciplined approach to portfolio management and hands-on value creation. We believe an active engagement model is a leading indicator of strong company performance. “Crescent Capital were willing to invest initially and on a continued basis to maintain our technologically leadership position”

John Beevers

CEO GoundProbe

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In addition to equity capital, partnering with Crescent brings access to deep industry expertise and significant strategy and operational support. This serves to drive growth and performance improvement, accelerating value creation for shareholders. “Our growth strategy was perfectly aligned with Crescent Capital’s”

Cameron Johnson

CEO nucleous Network

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Crescent Capital is unique in its ability and track record of building out businesses from a standing start, internally and in partnership with management teams. We have a large internal team which helps accelerate a portfolio company management team’s decision making. “It has been Crescent’s human capital that has been most valuable to us”

Stephen Ong

GM MyHealth

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Access to our investment and operational team brings unparalleled support to our portfolio companies. We have consistently been able to deliver significant value-add alongside our management teams. “Crescent Capital partnered with us and assisted in achieving our graoth targets”

Peter Edwards

Fmr CEO Cover-More

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The foundation of our success is the working relationship we have with the business owners and leadership teams we partner with. Every year we ask all of our executives the question – Would you recommend working with Crescent to a friend or colleague? We are proud to have globally leading NPS scores with our executive partners. “I strongly recommend working in partnership with Crescent Capital”

Matt Courtney

CEO Construction Sciences

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From cross portfolio introductions and business development, provision of consulting style support on key projects, through to assisting portfolio companies through major strategic change, the Crescent investment team has a unique blend of high end consulting and operational skill sets to support the investee companies. “Crescent Capital Brings a laser focus on the things that drive value to our business”

Paul Wappett

CEO Australian Institute of Business