James Murphy

James has been with Next Capital since 2007 and joined the partnership in 2014.

James was formerly with UBS Investment Bank M&A team. At UBS, he executed transactions including the privatisation of DCA Group, the merger of SFE and ASX, the sale of P&O Cold Logistics for P&O, the sale of Amatek Group for CVC, the acquisition of Guardian Healthcare by DCA Group and the acquisition of ALSTOM Australian and New Zealand assets by United Group. Previously, James was a member of Grant Samuel’s corporate advisory team and a strategy consultant at Accenture, the global consulting firm.

James is or has been a Director of Next Capital’s investments in Scottish Pacific, Infinite Care, Forest Coach Lines, GoBus, Lynch Group, Funlab, Alpha Group, iseek, NZ Bus, Next Athleisure and InterHealthcare and was an alternate Director of Discovery Parks.

Academic Qualifications

B.Comm (UNSW)