KordaMentha

KordaMentha launched a new tax disputes practice in collaboration with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

Leadership read: A product move like this reshapes KordaMentha's org chart as much as its roadmap. Scaling in the sector rests on product leadership that can carry a launch to adoption and commercial hires who turn early traction into pipeline. The Oceania tell is whether senior GTM appointments follow; unsupported launches stall.

curated · 2026-07-22 · context →

KordaMentha secured a $500m mandate from a US investor for a major property investment play

Leadership read: KordaMentha has moved from advisory and restructuring into active capital deployment at institutional scale. Managing a $500m mandate from a US investor is a structurally different operating posture than advising on transactions, it commits the firm to asset selection, portfolio oversight, and investor-reporting obligations across a sustained hold period. In the ANZ industrial logistics and property corridor, that means the firm is now accountable for deal origination, counterparty relationships, and ongoing asset management at a scale that its traditional advisory practice was not designed to carry. The related signals set for this period is broad across capital-raising activity globally but thin on directly comparable ANZ property mandate signals. The stronger frame is the pattern of US institutional capital rotating into ANZ real assets, industrial, logistics, and infrastructure-adjacent, as yield compression in North American core markets pushes allocators offshore. That appetite is real and consistent with several large cross-border mandates visible across the Asia-Pacific corridor in recent quarters. Companies reaching this stage of cross-border capital deployment in the real-assets corridor face rising demand for leadership in investor relations and LP reporting, deal origination and asset management with logistics-sector depth, and the compliance and structuring capability that anchors a US institutional relationship across multiple reporting cycles. The market is moving toward operators who can hold both the origination and the ongoing fiduciary function simultaneously, a narrower profile than either pure advisory or pure fund management alone.

curated · 2026-04-07 · context →