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Season 3, Episode 1: Australasia's first annual EtA Forum: bringing together the Search Fund & EtA Community  capital community entrepreneurship eta forum investing search

This year, the Australian EtA and Search Fund community is looking forward to its first big event for the region. The EtA Forum (www.etaforum.com.au) will be held at the Manly Pacific Hotel, on Manly Beach in Sydney, on Friday 16th September.

In the lead up to the event, I will be interviewing...

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Australia's First Traditional Search Fund australia entrepreneurship through acquisition investing search experience search funds

Alex Simmons is the founder of Voyager Equity, Australia's first traditional Search Fund launched in early 2019. Before launching that fund, Alex was a manager with Partners in Performance in Sydney and prior to that, an investment manager in the UK. He's had some interesting experience across...

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Debt Advisory for Australian Searchers australia banking investing leanding search funds small business

Paul O'Farrell is an experienced banking professional and chartered accountant with over 30 years of international banking and risk management experience with companies such as PwC, National Australia Bank and Bankwest. 

 

He has an in-depth understanding of the issues facing...

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Search through the legal lens australia entrepreneurship through acquisition investing legal tax liabilities

Nima Sedaghat is the co-founder of Wayfinder Capital, the first institutional fund of search funds and searcher-led transactions in Australia and a partner of Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth, a full-service commercial law firm with offices all around Australia. 

He's been advising business...

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Search Fund Lending in Australia - a perspective from Australia's leading Neo Bank banking entrepreneurship through acquisition investing
Frank Versace is the Chief Risk Officer at Judo bank, one of Australia's newest banks. Judo is taking on the long-established big four banks in the Australian market, with a focus on Small to Medium Businesses... and they're doing a great job at it, too!

Through his broad banking experience and...
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Investing In Australian Search investing search funds

Tim Moore and Jake Maisey run Dorado Capital, one of the few Australian family offices actively investing in search funds. Dorado has invested in traditional and self-funded searches both in Australia and overseas. 

Tim has an MBA and is a chartered accountant who started his career in...

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