Cheap money, big tickets, fast and furious deals. It’s an unprecedented time for deal makers. As the fees flow in from record-sized mergers and acquisitions, and a new wave of deals appears on the horizon, deal makers are licking their lips. While there’s plenty of work to go around, the cream of the crop emerged in the past year.⁠ ⁠ The big trend they’re all chasing is the unstoppable march of private capital. Once-conservative superannuation funds have morphed into big capital markets players, throwing their weight around like risk-taking private equity funds.⁠ ⁠ AFR Magazine’s hotly anticipated Power issue, out on Friday, September 30 inside the @FinancialReview, includes lists of the key players across six industry sectors. ⁠ ⁠ Click on the bio link to read about Australia’s top five deal makers for 2022. 📰: Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald