Jul 9, 2026 – 3.36pmNew York-headquartered Warburg Pincus has agreed to carve out credit bureau CreditorWatch from Christian Beck’s ATI Global, marking the private capital behemoth’s maiden private equity deal in Australia.Street Talk can reveal Warburg Pincus dealmakers will pay $700 million for the business, after stealth talks with billionaire owner Beck have played out over the past 18 months.Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
Sydney to Hobart star lands $700m CreditorWatch deal
Sources told Street Talk Roso, who moved back to the region two years ago, had approached Beck early last year to discuss how Warburg Pincus could add value as a partner.
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