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Jarden Family Day 🎈 🎄 🎅 🍪 🎨   “Family day was a great opportunity to share the work environment with our kids and partners. It’s a nice way for all the staff to get together with their loved ones and celebrate the end to the year!” Edward Wilson, Managing Director, Equities. 

2024 has been a transformative year at Jarden, with significant growth, innovation, and key milestones along the way. While it’s hard to capture every achievement, here are a few highlights from the year.

Jarden was thrilled to assist Orora on the successful sale of its North American packaging solutions business (OPS) to CD&R for A$1.78bn. As highlighted in the company’s FY24 results, a strategic review was undertaken with the objective of unlocking value for shareholders. The completion of the transaction transforms Orora into a focused beverage packaging business, leaves it with a strong balance sheet and flexibility to pursue value accretive organic growth opportunities as well as pursue capital management initiatives. Congratulations to the entire Orora team. 

In today's The Australian Financial Review, Alicia Chang shares valuable insights into what she wishes she had known when she first started her career as an investment banking analyst at Jarden. “The hours are manageable when you focus on maintaining a sustainable lifestyle and doing what works for you, whether that’s taking 20 minutes for a dinner with co-workers and other grads, or quick run or gym session to break up the evening.” 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3e95xgT #investmentbanking #corporatefinance #graduates #internship

🌟 Welcome 🌟 This week, we extended a warm welcome to our summer intern cohort. This talented group will be working alongside our Corporate Finance and Research teams in Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland. As part of their internship, they will join an immersive training program and gain hands-on experience. Working on meaningful projects, they will benefit from personalised professional development and the opportunity to work alongside industry leaders on some of the largest transactions in the market. We look forward to supporting their professional growth, seeing their fresh perspectives, and their valuable contributions during their internship. #Jarden #SummerInternship #CorporateFinance #Research #FinanceCareers #InternshipOpportunities 

We are excited to announce the appointment of Tim Leahy to the newly created specialist role of Real Assets Sales & Corporate Broking. Tim's appointment complements our real estate offering, led by Mitchell Schauer, Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Corporate Finance, and Lou Pirenc, Managing Director and Head of Property, Equity Research, who covers 25 ASX-listed companies. 🔗 For more on this, go to https://lnkd.in/gwkhF9t2

Mitchell Schauer spoke in front of a full house at the Living Sectors Summit in Sydney. Mitchell said: "From capital formation and transactions perspectives, we’re at the dawn of a new era in Australia for the living sectors, in terms of institutional-grade assets, operational excellence, and significant growth potential." While the housing shortage and other current market constraints are real, Mitchell said he is "optimistic about the outlook to further grow different institutional residential-for-rent asset classes and create large, vibrant, liquid asset classes with strong performance, which are attractive to investors and residents alike." Jarden has been an active adviser in the living sectors, working with clients to help establish successful capital partnerships in build-to-rent, land lease, and master planned communities in the last 12 months. #LivingSectorsSummit

Today, our Chief Economist, Micaela Fuchila, joined Edward Boyd on Sky News Australia to discuss key economic data released this week, including wages and unemployment. They also discussed the impact of the US election on the global economy. 🔗 Catch the full interview here https://lnkd.in/gdU-WPVw #Economy #Wages #Unemployment #AustralianEconomy #EconomicInsights

Our Head of Equity Capital Markets Origination Millie Horton has shared her thoughts on the IPO outlook with The Australian's Matt Bell. While 2024 had been weak in terms of IPO volumes, investors had been starved of issuance in recent years, and equity capital markets had shown signs of recent strength. “Investors are engaged on high-quality opportunities with strong appetite for scale issuers, where there is confidence around market liquidity. The majority of recent deals have traded strongly and above offer price – helping fuel confidence," Millie said. A successful IPO market next year would depend on further stability in rates and inflation. Economists don’t expect the Reserve Bank to cut rates until early 2025, which Millie said would make it easier to raise capital and incentivise listings, particularly in the tech, health and renewable energy sectors. “There are definite signs of momentum building, with several larger-scale companies in preparation behind the scenes to maintain flexibility to launch an IPO once there’s more clarity around market conditions, interest rates, and inflation." 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g4RU_2Z5

In today’s NBR - National Business Review's Dealmaker Series Mitchell Schauer talks to Lachlan Colquhoun about what’s behind the action in the real estate sector. One of the main features has seen the return of Japanese investors, who have been the biggest offshore players over the past 18 months. Mitch says: “A big part of that is relative interest rates and prospective relative returns. But it also has to do with the Japanese economy itself, with its features of low economic and population growth, and Australia has always been a great destination for this capital.” Mitch also notes much of the action in the real estate sector has been in private capital. "It’s at a tipping point that’s been building for decades driven by the growth of Australian superannuation funds which have been taking active stakes in listed companies, as well as taking public companies private", he says. “The Australian superannuation funds have been growing through inflows and mandated mergers, and now there’s six mega-funds. This is a trend that’s been building in front of our eyes for decades and, while it has been slow moving, I think it has very much reached an inflection point where the critical mass is there and there’s no going back. That’s not to say that public markets are dead – it’s just the dynamics have shifted.” The NBR notes Jarden’s eight deals in this sector over the last two years with a total value of A$15bn, including: -      Recapitalisation of ADIA and ESR’s A$3bn logistics and industrial property venture -      The establishment of Mirvac’s A$1.8bn built-to-rent venture funded by Japanese and domestic investors -      Working with Stockland on two deals: the A$1bn land lease community partnership between it and US group Invesco, and the A$1.3bn acquisition of masterplanned communities from Lendlease -      The NZ$290m deal for New Zealand-listed Goodman Property Trust to internalise its management and create a new property funds platform