Financial Sponsor Transaction Group

Providing advice and ideas

From investment ideas to executing deals, our dedicated private equity advisory team provides execution experience for mid-market portfolio companies.

 

Impartial advice

Receive an impartial multi-product assessment of all your options to optimise value and transaction certainty from a dedicated team who listen carefully to your own objectives.

All your exit options

Work with the only bank operating in the mid-market (£50m – £2bn enterprise value) which is truly agnostic as to the product outcome, offering M&A, IPO, dual track and/or financing options.

M&A expertise

Benefit from our buy-side and sell-side capabilities. Our team has handled financial sponsor transactions across all countries and products, allowing you and your management team to do what you do best: running your businesses.

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Our experience on your side

Buy-side / sell-side M&A

Initial public offerings

Public equity sell-down solutions

Cornerstoning capital raises

Buy-side / sell-side M&A

 

  • Sole Financial Adviser to GCI Telecom (a Mayfair Equity Partners portfolio company) for the £79.4m PTP of Nasstar plc
  • Sole Financial Adviser for Sun European Capital’s acquisition of Wescom Signal & Rescue
  • Financial adviser for Pamplona Capital's acquisition of Loparex
  • Sole financial adviser on Microgen Financial Systems disposal to Silverfleet
  • Sole financial adviser for Graphite Capital’s acquisition of NRS Healthcare
  • Sole financial adviser for Trilantic’s acquisition of YM&U
  • Sole financial adviser for ECI’s LBO of 4ways
  • Sole financial adviser for Silverfleet’s acquisition of Prefere Resins in Germany
  • Financial adviser for CD&R backed Motor Fuel Group’s £1.2bn acquisition of MRH
  • Sole financial adviser for Mayfair’s c.£200m acquisition of GCI Managed Services Group
  • Financial adviser for CD&R’s acquisition of 40% ownership of Belron for €3 billion
  • Sole financial adviser to Servelec on its £224m sale to Montagu Private Equity
  • Sole financial adviser for Five Arrows' acquisition of Opus 2 International
  • Sole financial adviser for Investcorp's £280m acquisition of Kee Safety
  • Sole financial adviser for Bidvest's €175m acquisition of Noonan from Alchemy Partners
  • Sole financial adviser for Mayfair Equity Partners' acquisition of SuperAwesome
  • £620m sale of Exova to Bridgepoint-backed Element Materials Technology
  • Sole financial adviser for CapVest's £180m acquisition of Karro Food Group
  • Financial adviser for Bridgepoint’s £750m acquisition of Zenith and subsequent add-on of CVL Logistics
  • Sole financial adviser for sale of Krispy Kreme to JAB Holdings on behalf of Alcuin Capital
  • Financial adviser for Exponent’s acquisition of Leisure Pass
  • Financial adviser for CD&R’s c. £500m acquisition of Motor Fuel Group
  • Sole financial adviser for £499m sale of The Innovation Group to Carlyle
  • Rule 3 adviser for $700m sale of Dealogic to Carlyle
  • Sole financial adviser for £110m PTP of Allocate Software for HgCapital

 

Initial public offerings

  • Joint bookrunner on £647m Main Market IPO of Watches of Switzerland for Apollo
  • £100m Main Market IPO of The Works for Endless Investements
  • CBPE's £121m IPO of Medica Group
  • Epiris’ £240m IPO of Hollywood Bowl
  • Inflexion’s IPO of Sanne for £232m
  • LDC's £154m IPO of Fevertree
  • £309m IPO of FDM on behalf of Inflexion

 

Public equity sell-down solutions

  • £103m secondary placing in Fever-Tree
  • £156m Card Factory secondary placing for Charterhouse
  • £43m blocks in Greene King and Punch Taverns for Alchemy Partners
  • £41m Hollywood Bowl Group secondary placing for Epiris
  • £14m secondary placing in Fever-Tree
  • £27m block trade in BCA for CD&R

Cornerstoning capital raises

  • €35m cornerstoning for €250m Apax Global Alpha IPO
  • $32m capital raise for Kentech by Blue Water Energy
 

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We keep earning our stripes

Bank of the Year winner, Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2019

Bank of the Year winner, Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2019

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