Capital Solutions

Driven by your growth

Our capital solutions are designed to help entrepreneurs and businesses achieve their ambitions and get where they want to go. From providing debt, to equity, we work in partnership with New Zealand businesses to help finance growth investment, development, strategic acquisitions, and succession planning across a broad range of industries.

Principal Investments

Principal Investments provides bespoke funding solutions to private businesses and unique investment opportunities to private wholesale investors (not suitable for retail investors).

We have extensive experience investing in and helping New Zealand companies execute their strategic plans and grow their businesses.

Our investments include financing acquisitions, providing growth capital, taking pre-IPO stakes, and succession planning. Principal Investments is funded using a mix of capital from the Jarden balance sheet, while also providing opportunities to our network of private wholesale investors.

Partner with us

Jarden usually partners with established businesses that have proven profit models, or those operating in a developed market, with a clear plan to achieve growth.

While having a clear set of criteria for potential investments, we are also flexible about their size and stage. This means we look to invest between $5-30 million at a time.

We are focused on forming strategic partnerships with existing owners and management, and other capital providers as required.

We generally look to play a role in the governance of businesses we invest in, utilising Jarden’s wider expertise and bringing in additional independent specialists when valuable and complimentary.

Flexible capital and unmatched networks

Because we structure and fund each investment separately, our solutions can be uniquely tailored to each of our partners, including:

  • Time frame of investment
  • Position in the capital structure (debt, equity, or somewhere in between)
  • Governance role
  • Primary or secondary (existing or new shares)

Where required we also provide access to Jarden’s strategic and investment banking expertise – including across mergers and acquisitions, financing, and equity offerings.


Opportunities to invest

Principal Investments provides wholesale certified clients of Jarden with opportunities to invest alongside Jarden in the investments made by Principal Investments. Investment is not suitable for retail investors.

If you have an interest in investing in one of our transactions, please contact us for more details.


Our investments

Instrument: Equity
Status: Currently invested
August, 2021

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Instrument: Loan
Status: Currently invested
June, 2021

Instrument: Loan
Status: Realised
June, 2019

Instrument: Equity
Status: Currently invested
September, 2018

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Instrument: Equity
Status: Currently invested
October, 2022

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Our case studies

Fiordland Lobster

With a unique opportunity to capitalise on a changing industry landscape, New Zealand’s largest processor of Southern Rock Lobster partnered with Principal Investments for a growth equity capital raise.

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Hellers

In September 2018, Principal Investments and Australian private equity firm Adamantem successfully acquired a majority stake in the well-known Kiwi company Hellers, through a competitive auction process.

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Lodestone Energy

Jarden is both an investor and trusted adviser to Lodestone Energy, New Zealand’s leading independent developer and owner of large scale solar farms

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Pearlfisher Capital

Pearlfisher Capital is an established non-bank finance provider to the New Zealand property finance sector, providing a full range of secured debt and equity funding facilities for small and large property clients.

Pearlfisher is a recognised market participant, with extensive relationships, broad sector knowledge and the track record and experience to provide well structured facilities with consistent risk weighted returns managed on behalf of its private and institutional investors.

Pearlfisher is also an active investor, co-investing alongside its investors, providing an alignment of interests and an ongoing commitment to the hands-on management ethos which underpins Pearlfisher’s success. 

Jarden’s involvement in Pearlfisher began in January 2017, bringing corporate strength to the brand and a long term commitment to the business and the non-bank finance sector where it sees significant growth opportunities.

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