Murray & Co

Murray & Co

Founded in September 2004, Murray & Co positioned itself as an Auckland-based investment bank focused on mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and capital raising for New Zealand companies, cooperatives, charitable trusts, and families. Unlike a multi-family office or fund manager, the firm operates as a pure advisory house, earning fees from transaction mandates rather than managing discretionary pools of capital. Its work is led entirely by senior bankers, a structure it highlights as a point of differentiation from larger institutions where junior teams handle execution. The firm’s transaction practice covers M&A, equity and debt capital raising, and standalone corporate advisory engagements such as valuations and strategic reviews. It maintains a deliberately broad industry reach, citing completed mandates in aged care, agriculture, aquaculture, financial services, food and beverage, forestry, healthcare, infrastructure, leisure, manufacturing, media, property, retail, technology, telecommunications, tourism, and transport. The firm’s own website notes it maintains relationships with family offices, venture capital firms, private equity sponsors, institutional investors, credit funds and banks across New Zealand, Australia, and major global markets. Publicly disclosed advisory assignments confirm a mix of sell-side, buy-side, takeover defense, and partnership structuring roles. Named transactions include advising the independent directors of Restaurant Brands New Zealand on Finaccess Restauración’s takeover offer, advising Tait International on its takeover of Vital Limited, and advising Mackersy Property and Kiwi Property Group on their large-format retail fund. The team size and total transaction volume are not publicly disclosed. In May 2019 the firm won the INFINZ M&A Transaction of the Year award, the only dated operations marker available. Community involvement centers on consistent support for the creative arts, which the firm says has enabled it to contribute to community enrichment locally and nationally. No adjacent investment vehicles, club memberships, or philanthropic foundations are disclosed alongside the advisory business. Murray & Co’s structural distinction lies in operating as a senior-led advisory boutique in a small, concentrated market. Unlike bank-owned competitors or multi-family offices that blend advisory with discretionary capital, the firm runs a single revenue model — transaction and advisory fees — without an affiliated fund, wealth management arm, or balance sheet deployment sidecar. That architecture makes it a counterparty to family offices and institutional investors rather than a direct competitor for deals.