About Us
Independent financial news and global market intelligence from Melbourne.
"The lion does not study the savannah from a distance. It moves through it, reads it, and sees what others miss. That is the analyst we are building."
Who we are.
The Lion Brief is an independent financial news publication built for people who follow Australian capital markets seriously. We track what's moving, what's being bought, what's listing, and what it all means in the broader context of the Australian economy.
We launched because the Australian financial news landscape is dominated by outlets that either write for a mass audience or are paywalled behind enterprise contracts. We sit in neither camp. The Lion Brief is focused, accessible, and built around the kinds of deals and market events that matter to professionals, students, and informed observers of Australian finance.
Every piece we publish is grounded in public records, regulatory filings, market data, and verified sources. We report facts. We provide context. We let you draw your own conclusions.
Every report and piece of content we publish is researched, written, and edited by the author. Our main four categories include The Lion Lens, Money Moves, Build Brief, and Investor IQ all of which are further broken down and described below. We analyse each piece with the rigour of a practitioner and the clarity of someone who remembers what it felt like not to know this yet.
"The best preparation for a career in finance is not reading about finance. It is doing finance — and doing it to a standard that actually matters."
Covering the deals, listings, commodities, and capital flows that define the Australian financial landscape — with clarity, depth, and no agenda.
The Founder.
Vansh Mittal - Founder & Editor - The Lion Brief
Vansh is a student at Monash University in Melbourne with a strong interest in Australian capital markets, deal activity, and financial journalism. He founded The Lion Brief to build an independent, accessible source of financial news for anyone who follows the Australian market closely — without the noise, the paywalls, or the agenda that too often comes with established financial media.
The Lion Brief is his attempt to cover Australian finance the way it deserves to be covered: clearly, factually, and from Melbourne.
Things we Cover.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Deal announcements, transaction values, bidder and target profiles, and regulatory milestones across Australian M&A activity.
Private Equity
Fund raises, portfolio acquisitions, exit activity, and the firms shaping private capital markets in Australia.
IPO & Listings
Upcoming floats, prospectus summaries, listing data, and post-IPO performance tracking on the ASX.
Equity & Debt Markets
Index movements, sector performance, capital raisings, and fixed income market developments.
Commodities
Spot prices, futures data, production trends, and macro drivers across Australia's key resource sectors.
Investment Securities
Company financials, earnings results, balance sheet data, and publicly disclosed corporate actions.
Personal Finances
Personal finance management, savings, credit, bank account, asset management, long-term growth
Australian Business Owners
Legal ways Australian business owners can grow, how they save money, latest trends, products, AI integration