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Evans & Partners
Evans & Partners was established in 2012 by David Evans, a veteran institutional broker whose career at Goldman Sachs JBWere gave him direct access to the...
Evans & Partners
Evans & Partners was established in 2012 by David Evans, a veteran institutional broker whose career at Goldman Sachs JBWere gave him direct access to the mining magnates and infrastructure developers reshaping Australia's export economy. The firm emerged during a period of capital market disillusionment with small-cap resource equities, positioning itself as a broker with a balance-sheet commitment to its own research. From its Melbourne headquarters, Evans & Partners built a private-wealth and institutional advisory business that deliberately concentrated on energy, mining, and agricultural infrastructure — the sectors that dominate Australian capital formation but often lack dedicated, conflict-aware advisory coverage. The firm operates across three interconnected lines: a private-wealth advisory arm for high-net-worth families, an institutional corporate advisory and equities business, and the Evans & Partners Global Energy Fund. The fund invests across the energy value chain — exploration, production, midstream infrastructure, and services — with a long-bias strategy that sources ideas from the firm's in-house research team. Geographic exposure spans Australia, the Middle East, and North American unconventional basins. Confirmed portfolio holdings have included liquefied natural gas (LNG) project developers and uranium producers (per Australian Financial Review, 2019). The advisory mandates skew toward mid-cap producers and infrastructure owners, often involving recapitalizations, project-level capital introductions, and cross-border deal-making with Asian strategic buyers. Evans & Partners maintains offices in Sydney and Perth in addition to its Melbourne base, giving it a physical presence in all three Australian financial capitals. The firm's corporate finance team, led by Alex Evans, executes on transactions that typically fall beneath the radar of the major Australian investment banks. In May 2024, regulatory filings showed the firm expanding its wholesale client offerings with new energy-transition structured products (per ASIC, 2024). The Global Energy Fund remains the firm's most distinctive capital deployment tool, with a portfolio construction mandate that permits concentrated, cyclical bets on resource price recovery. What structurally differentiates Evans & Partners is its architecture as a privately held advisory firm with a captive funds-management arm — a model that creates a direct feedback loop between corporate advisory deal flow and public-market energy investing. The Evans family controls the equity, removing the asset-gathering pressures that shape listed wealth managers. This independence lets the firm run concentrated research coverage on mid-tier Australian energy names that bulge-bracket firms have abandoned, while the fund provides a vehicle for the firm's proprietary investment theses without external investor governance conflicts.
General information
Firm type
Bank / Wealth / Trust
Year founded
2012
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Asia
Country
Australia
City
Melbourne
Corporate office
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Additional offices
Sydney, Australia · Perth, Australia
Principals
David Evans
Executive Chairman
Alex Evans
Managing Director, Corporate Finance
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions on the Global Energy Fund?
David Evans, the firm's Executive Chairman, oversees the Global Energy Fund's investment strategy, drawing on his three-decade career in Australian institutional equities. The fund's portfolio managers, based in Melbourne, implement a long-bias strategy across energy exploration, production, and midstream infrastructure, with specific stock picks sourced from the firm's in-house research team rather than external consultants.
Does Evans & Partners operate as a single family office or an asset manager?
It operates as an integrated advisory firm and asset manager, not a single family office. The private-wealth advisory arm serves multiple high-net-worth families, while the corporate advisory and equities business serves institutional and corporate clients. The Evans & Partners Global Energy Fund is open to wholesale investors and sits within a registered managed investment scheme structure distinct from family-office capital.
What is Evans & Partners' exposure to the energy transition theme?
The firm's core energy franchise covers the full value chain from fossil fuel extraction to renewable infrastructure, with an increasing tilt toward gas as a transition fuel. Publicly disclosed positions include LNG project developers and uranium producers (per Australian Financial Review, 2019). The Global Energy Fund's mandate permits investments in carbon-intensive assets alongside renewables, reflecting a thesis that resource scarcity and capital discipline in traditional energy will generate returns during the transition period.
How does the firm source corporate advisory mandates?
Deal flow originates from the firm's equity research coverage of Australian mid-cap energy and resource companies, combined with David Evans' long-standing institutional network built during his Goldman Sachs JBWere tenure. The co-location of the research team, corporate advisory group, and fund under one P&L creates a feedback loop where research coverage can lead to advisory mandates, and advisory insights inform fund positioning — a cycle that is difficult for large investment banks to replicate at the mid-cap level.
Is Evans & Partners affiliated with Evans Dixon?
No. Though both firms carry the 'Evans' name and operate in Australian wealth management, Evans Dixon (now E&P Financial Group) was formed via a separate merger between Evans & Partners' former stockbroking arm and Dixon Advisory in 2017. David Evans retained control of the private-wealth advisory and institutional businesses that now trade as the independent Evans & Partners entity described here (per Australian Financial Review, 2017).
What geographies does the Global Energy Fund target?
The fund invests across Australia, the Middle East, and North America, with a particular emphasis on jurisdictions with deep energy infrastructure and transparent regulatory regimes. Australian LNG and uranium, Middle Eastern national oil company supply chains, and North American unconventional basins (Permian, Marcellus) represent the core geographical exposures in publicly documented mandate materials.
What is the firm's regulatory posture in Australia?
Evans & Partners holds an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) and operates under ASIC regulation. The Global Energy Fund is structured as a registered managed investment scheme available only to wholesale clients, making the firm exempt from some retail disclosure requirements while subject to full AFSL compliance obligations.
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