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Sternship Advisers
Sternship Advisers is a boutique Perth-based advisory firm established in mid-2017 by the former UBS Perth team. It provides trustworthy corporate finance...
Sternship Advisers
Sternship Advisers is a boutique Perth-based advisory firm established in mid-2017 by the former UBS Perth team. It provides trustworthy corporate finance advice by highly experienced senior bankers who are free of conflicts. In mid-2020 it merged with Ashanti Capital, establishing the Group’s Equity Capital Markets division. Sternship provides leading, independent M&A advice across domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeover defence, strategic investments, trade sales and demergers, joint ventures and farm-ins, and management buy-outs and private equity transactions.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
2017
Location
Region
Oceania
Country
Australia
City
Perth
Corporate office
Suite 4, 414 Rokeby Road Subiaco WA 6008, Australia
Principals
Neil Hamilton
Chairman
Tim Day
Founder and Managing Director
Rob Hamilton
Managing Director, Ashanti Capital and ECM
Denis Dwiputra
Director
Robert Thomson
Director
Hugo Packer
Director
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Sternship Advisers?
Tim Day, the founder and managing director, leads the corporate-advisory practice. Rob Hamilton — who joined through the 2020 Ashanti Capital merger — runs the Equity Capital Markets division and manages the Ashanti Investment Fund. Chairman Neil Hamilton, a 35-year veteran who chaired Oz Minerals and Western Power, sets strategic direction but does not appear to execute day-to-day mandates.
Does Sternship participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
Sternship itself executes direct M&A and ECM transactions — placements, IPOs, acquisitions, and sales. The related Ashanti Investment Fund can take investment positions, but the advisory practice does not operate as a fund-of-funds or LP allocator.
What investment stages does Sternship typically target?
The ECM division works across pre-IPO, IPO, reverse takeover, convertible, and secondary-market placements for both listed and unlisted companies. The M&A practice is stage-agnostic, handling everything from strategic growth investments to full trade sales and management buyouts.
Which sectors does Sternship explicitly avoid?
The firm does not publish an exclusion list. The deal sheet and team bios tilt heavily toward natural resources, mining services, industrials, engineering, and infrastructure. Consumer and healthcare appear only when a director — Hugo Packer in particular — brings coverage from his Goldman Sachs tenure.
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