EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Viv Petroff has over 13 years of investment banking, corporate advisory and commercial finance experience. She was previously at Flagstaff Partners for three and a half years between 2012 and 2016 and re-joined the firm in 2018, having spent 18 months at REA Group (realestate.com.au). During her time at REA Group, Viv worked on a range of strategy and M&A projects in the Office of the CEO, and also gained experience in the commercial finance team. Prior to joining Flagstaff Partners in 2012, Viv was an investment banking analyst at Deutsche Bank in the industrials and financial sponsors team
Notable transactions and assignments include advising ANZ on its $4.9bn acquisition of Suncorp Bank; advising Collection House in relation to its recapitalisation; advising REA Group on the sale of its Hong Kong assets; advising the Kin Group in relation to its on-market takeover offer for The Reject Shop; advising The University of Melbourne on a monetisation of its student accommodation assets; the €133 million sale of REA Group’s European businesses to Oakley Capital; advising The Trust Company on its response to a takeover bid by Equity Trustees and acquisition proposal from IOOF, and the successful acquisition by Perpetual, via Scheme of Arrangement for $290 million
