Our History

Responsibly growing the assets entrusted to us, for over 25 years.

The Roc Partners business has been in operation since 1996 with over 65 employees located across Sydney, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Shanghai. Roc Partners has one of the largest and most experienced alternative investment teams in the Asia-Pacific region.

Roc Partners was established as an independent, alternative investment management firm following the management buy-out of Macquarie Group’s private markets business unit (“MIMPM”) by its senior executives in June 2014. 

1996

Macquarie Investment Markets Private Markets (MIMPM) established

Sydney office opened and 1st Private Equity investment

1st China Investment and Co-Investment

1997

1st Secondary Investment

1998

1st Institutional Client and Australian Fund of Fund

2003

1st Separate Account Client

2006

Hong Kong office opened

2007

1st Asia Pacific Fund of Fund, India Investment and Japan Investment

2013

MIMPM awarded PEI Fund of Funds Manager of the Year Asia

2014

Roc Partners established following a management buyout of the MIMPM business

2015

1st Separate Account at Roc Partners

2016

1st Asia Pacific Fund as Roc Partners

2017

1st Agriculture Investment

2018

Established specialist direct investment team

2019

Shanghai office opened

2020

Melbourne office opened

2021

UNPRI Signatory

Awarded Agri Investor Fund Manager of the Year - Global and APAC

Awarded Agri Investor Deal of the Year - APAC (Flavorite)

2022

Premium Food Fund closes, bringing Direct Agricultural Private Equity platform to over $2 billion AUM.

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Hive and Wellness Group

(Unrealised)

Investment Year

EXIT YEAR

Description

The Local Broadband Network Company (LBNCo) is an installer and owner of superfast broadband networks in residential developments. LBNCo is engaged by property developers to install and maintain the fibre infrastructure, and sells ‘wholesale’ network acces to the retail service providers who then provide services to the tenants. LBNCo is now part of Uniti Group (ASX: UWL) following its acquisition in August 2019.

Stone Axe Pastoral

(Unrealised) 

Investment Year

Description

Stone Axe is a producer of ultra-premium wagyu beef. The company has operations in NSW, QLD, WA and Victoria and is actively growing its herd via large scale embryto transfer program. Stone Axe has rapidly grown to become on of the largest fool blood wagyu producers in the world.