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EQT sweetens pursuit of Australia's Perpetual with $1.75 billion bid

EQT sweetens pursuit of Australia's Perpetual with $1.75 billion bid


Merger Arbeconomics, downside, days

Deal value

Per-share offer

Premium

Days to close

Term fee

Consideration
AnnouncedJul 16, 2026
Days outstanding48d
Expected close
Termination fee
Reverse term fee
Go-shop period
Fiduciary out
Financing condition
Debt commitment
Insider lock-up

No structured deal economics extracted yet. Re-run the scanner or fall back to the source filing below.


Timelineannounced → close
  1. Announced

    Jul 16, 2026

  2. Preliminary Proxy

  3. Definitive Proxy

  4. Record date

  5. Shareholder vote

  6. Expected close


Vote Mechanicsrecord / mailing / vote
Vote date
Record date
Mailing date
Record → vote
Threshold
Min approvalparsed
Shares outstanding
Insider lock-up

Regulatory & ConditionsHSR / EU / CFIUS / MAC

No regulatory or closing-conditions data extracted yet. The merger agreement Exhibit 10.1 contains this in the “Conditions to Closing” and “Regulatory Approvals” articles.


Closing Conditionsapprovals · vote · financing · lockups

No closing-condition data extracted.


Interloper Riskcompeting bids, activist filers

No competing-bidder, activist, or dissident-proxy signals in the database for this target.


Advisors

No advisor data on record for this deal.


Sources

Australia's Perpetual said on Wednesday it received a sweetened A$2.5 billion ($1.75 billion) takeover proposal from Sweden's EQT AB, less than two weeks...

Item id: f35e0739-e741-45b0-9aeb-699d6a0b99cc · ingested Jul 16, 2026