Todd Grover

BDO has backed its confidence in WA’s commercial outlook by purchasing boutique mergers and acquisitions firm Tomkins Turner Corporate Advisory

Perth-based BDO partner Todd Grover has had a key role in navigating the sale of Sydney-based Comsec TR to a European prison media and communications provider.

Kewdale-based manufacturer Australian Valve Group has been bought by a major US-based competitor seeking to build its share of the Australian market.

Local businessman Norman Asch and accounting firm partner Todd Grover have become the majority shareholders in Western Australian sign-making company Kingman Visual.

Ferry operator SeaLink Travel Group has agreed to purchase family-owned business Go West Tours and three of its bus depots for up to $114 million.

Wangara-based contractor McKay Drilling has agreed to sell all its shares in the company to a major Canadian firm for $80 million.

“It has been a busy year and it continues to be,” is how Simon Reed describes current market conditions in Western Australia.

A probe into failed firm Titan Interactive has been given access to list of prominent business figures it approached to acquire capital, including Multiplex heir Andrew Roberts and millionaire John Poynton.

ASX-listed Kelsian Group has bought another Western Australian business, bolstering its presence in the state’s transport sector and BDO’s growing pipeline of buy-side deals.

Perth investment bank Poynton Stavrianou has doubled in size after acquiring the M&A team at accounting firm BDO, led by dealmakers Todd Grover and Justin Boyce Cam.

The assets of Kingman Signs and Graphics, which produced signage for customers including Optus Stadium and Crown Towers, will be sold by administrators for less than $200,000.

The signwriting company behind major WA signage jobs including Optus Stadium has been placed in liquidation, a little over three years after it was sold by its founders into new hands.