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Catapult Partners
Founded in 2009 with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, Catapult Partners blends a corporate-advisory practice with proprietary principal investing.
Catapult Partners
Founded in 2009 with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, Catapult Partners blends a corporate-advisory practice with proprietary principal investing. The firm advises on mergers, acquisitions, debt structuring, valuations, capital raisings, and business sales. On the investment side, it commits its own balance sheet to control-oriented transactions. The investment approach is concentrated and operationally intensive. Catapult targets management buyouts, infrastructure projects, and asset repurposing opportunities in Australia. The firm reports more than 60 completed transactions across its advisory and principal activities, and on the proprietary side it cites a weighted average multiple of 21.1x across five exits (per the firm). The advisory arm serves as a deal-sourcing engine, giving the investment team early visibility into off-market situations, particularly among founder-owned businesses undertaking succession transactions. The firm operates with a lean, non-disclosed headcount from its two East Coast offices. While it does not publish total assets under management or a committed fund size, its track record of five exits implies a disciplined, low-volume deployment cadence. No adjacent vehicles — such as philanthropic foundations, credit funds, or club networks — are disclosed, and the firm’s most recent operational milestone remains its multi-exit performance disclosure. Catapult Partners is structurally distinct from a standard buyout fund: it does not charge advisory-like fees to its own portfolio companies, because the advisory business already bills external clients for similar services. That dual-revenue model — fee income from M&A mandates running alongside permanent proprietary capital — allows it to hold assets indefinitely without the redemption or fundraising pressure that shapes traditional fund managers.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2009
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Oceania
Country
Australia
City
Brisbane
Corporate office
Brisbane, Australia
Additional offices
Sydney, Australia
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Is Catapult Partners a family office or a traditional private equity firm?
It operates as neither. Catapult Partners is an independent asset manager that runs an advisory-and-investment hybrid model. It earns fee income from corporate-advisory mandates — M&A, valuations, debt structuring, capital raisings — and concurrently invests its own proprietary capital in control-oriented deals, including management buyouts, infrastructure projects, and asset repurposing. There is no disclosed external limited-partner capital, so it functions more like a permanent-capital principal investor than a conventional fund manager.
How does Catapult Partners source its deal flow?
The firm’s advisory business acts as the primary sourcing mechanism. By running corporate-advisory processes — sell-side mandates, succession-driven business sales, strategic reviews — the team gains early, non-competitive visibility into mid-market Australian companies. This internal pipeline is supplemented by long-standing relationships with management teams, banks, and credit providers developed through the debt-advisory and restructuring practices.
What is Catapult Partners' track record on principal investments?
The firm reports a weighted average return multiple of 21.1x across five fully realized exits (per the firm). It has not disclosed individual portfolio-company names, holding periods, or total invested capital. The number implies a small, concentrated portfolio where at least a handful of investments delivered outsized outcomes, but without third-party verification the track record should be understood as self-reported.
What types of deals does Catapult Partners avoid?
The firm has not published an explicit list of excluded sectors, but its stated focus — management buyouts, infrastructure, and asset repurposing — suggests it avoids minority growth-stage venture, passive public-markets investing, and purely speculative early-stage technology bets. It also states on its website that it will not pursue transactions that compromise long-term value, indicating a willingness to walk away from overpriced auctions or structurally misaligned deals.
Does Catapult Partners raise money from external investors or institutions?
There is no public evidence that Catapult Partners accepts outside limited-partner capital for its principal-investment activities. The firm’s own materials describe it as an independent proprietary-investment operation, and the advisory side independently advises clients on capital raisings. The absence of a disclosed fund structure, regulatory filings, or named institutional backers supports the view that it deploys its own balance sheet.
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