{"id":641366,"date":"2025-12-19T02:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:19:20","slug":"perpetual-says-bain-discussions-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641366\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual says Bain discussions on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"yoast\"><a href=\"https:\/\/financialnewswire.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/financialnewswire.com.au\/.\/financial-planning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Planning<\/a> &gt; Perpetual says Bain discussions on track<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"  alt=\"Mike Taylor\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-80 alignnone photo nectar-lazy toploaded loaded nectar-lazy toploaded loaded\" data-nectar-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mike_Taylor_bw-100x100.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mike_Taylor_bw-100x100.png\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p>        Mike Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Managing Editor\/Publisher, Financial Newswire<\/p>\n<p>        19 December 2025<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1200\" height=\"620\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image nectar-lazy toploaded loaded nectar-lazy toploaded loaded\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-nectar-img-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shutterstock_1360585763-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shutterstock_1360585763-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a week out from Christmas, Perpetual has sought to reassure shareholders that its discussions around the sale of its Wealth Management business remain on track.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company has flagged discussions continue into the first quarter of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Perpetual announced to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it remained on track with respect to the exclusivity deed entered into with Bain Capital Private Equity in early November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese discussions regarding a potential transaction continue to progress and Perpetual and Bain have extended their exclusivity agreement into the first quarter of calendar year 2026,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile discussions are progressing well, there is no certainty of reaching a binding agreement, or that any transaction would proceed,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home &gt; Financial Planning &gt; Perpetual says Bain discussions on track Mike Taylor Managing Editor\/Publisher, Financial Newswire 19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[3384,197260,51,474,197261,197262,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-641366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-asx","9":"tag-bain-capital-private-equity","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-perpetual-limited","13":"tag-perpetual-private","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115743842417153296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}