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Pacific Equity Partners

Australian private equity investment company

Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) is a private equity investment firm focusing on transactions in Australia and New Zealand. PEP invests across a range of industries and sectors, in turnaround and growth capital transactions.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1998Founded1

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Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) is a private equity investment firm focusing on transactions in Australia and New Zealand. PEP invests across a range of industries and sectors, in turnaround and growth capital transactions.2

Corporate structure

Pacific Equity Partners sits at the top of its group. 3 entities on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Major holders of Pacific Equity Partners

  • Gardell Investments Pty Owns 25% to 50% of Pacific Equity Partners, since 04/1998 (Form ADV)
  • Churchtown Investments Pty Owns 25% to 50% of Pacific Equity Partners, since 04/1998 (Form ADV)
  • Pillar Investments Pty Limited Owns 25% to 50% of Pacific Equity Partners, since 04/1998 (Form ADV)
  • Pepstock Pty Limited Owns 25% to 50% of Pacific Equity Partners, since 04/1998 (Form ADV)
  • Jan Rickard Rolf Gardell Owns 75% or more of Gardell, since 02/1999 (Form ADV)
  • Paul James Mccullagh Owns 75% or more of Churchtown, since 02/1999 (Form ADV)
  • Simon David Pillar Owns 75% or more of Pillar, since 02/1999 (Form ADV)
  • Timothy James Sims Owns 75% or more of Pepstock Pty, since 01/1999 (Form ADV)

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G; owners and owned firms from Form ADV, the registration investment advisers file with the SEC. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Investment adviser

Pacific Equity Partners is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser. This is what it reports on Form ADV, the registration every adviser files and keeps current.

Who owns it

Owners of 5% or more as the firm lists them (Schedule A), and the owners of those owners up the chain (Schedule B).

  • CHURCHTOWN INVESTMENTS PTYowns 25% to 50%, since 04/1998
  • GARDELL INVESTMENTS PTYowns 25% to 50%, since 04/1998
  • PEPSTOCK PTY LIMITEDowns 25% to 50%, since 04/1998
  • PILLAR INVESTMENTS PTY LIMITEDowns 25% to 50%, since 04/1998
  • Jan Rickard Rolf Gardellowns 75% or more of GARDELL, since 02/1999
  • Paul James Mccullaghowns 75% or more of CHURCHTOWN, since 02/1999
  • Simon David Pillarowns 75% or more of PILLAR, since 02/1999
  • Timothy James Simsowns 75% or more of PEPSTOCK PTY, since 01/1999

What it owns

What Pacific Equity Partners reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • private equity fund

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1998Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

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