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Feb 28, 2007

Revving up

A new kind of IR will take off when Qantas is de-listed.

Despite the need for final government approvals, it’s a done deal as far as the market is concerned. And what will take the deal over the line isn’t savvy IR – it’s price. But that does not mean IR was distanced from the A$11 bn private equity buyout of Australia’s national airline, Qantas. Quite the opposite. As IR magazine went to press, a consortium of private equity houses led by Macquarie Bank was in the process of acquiring ‘the flying Kangaroo’.

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Alexandra Cain

Alexandra Cain is a Sydney-based journalist, editor, author and presenter who has been writing about investor relations for more than 20 years. When she’s not interviewing big wigs, emerging leaders and prime ministers, she’s surfing her favorite...
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