20th November 2008

Deals of the Year 2007

Date Company Location

Deal Type

Deal Size & Funding Advisers
18/12/07 ESS Steels Group Sheffield MBO £50m funding from Yorkshire Bank and Baird Capital Partners Europe PKF, BDO Stoy Hayward, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Hart Shaw
14/12/07 Bond Bryan Architects Sheffield MBO Funding provided by Yorkshire Bank and South Yorkshire Investment Fund Hart Shaw, Irwin Mitchell, PKF, BDO Stoy Hayward, Halliwells
04/12/07 Arnold Laver Sheffield MBI Funding provided by Yorkshire Bank Deloitte, Cobbetts, PKF, Walker Morris
20/11/07 Eurotel Halifax MBO £44m management buyout backed by Infexion with backing of Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets Acquisition Finance KPMG, Grant Thornton, Jones Day, Intuitus,Marsh, Addleshaw Goddard, Investec, Oakley Corporate Finance
19/11/07 Procon Harrogate Trade Sale £5.4m buyout by United Drug
13/11/07 Firth Rixon Sheffield Buyout £945m buyout by Oak Hill Capital funded by Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets PriceWaterhouse Coopers, DLA Piper UK LLP
12/11/07 Red Submarine York Financing £1.3m funding by Bank of Scotland

12/11/07 Jennings Roofing Ltd Leeds Trade Sale

£5.1m Yorkshire-Bank funded

BTG McInnes Corporate Finance , BDO Stoy Hayward, Mincoffs, Walker Morris
09/11/07 Sirdar Wakefield MBO £3m funded by RBS Invoice Finance RSM Bentley Jennison, Walker Morris
28/09/07 Protocol Skills Barnsley Sale

£47m by Close Brothers Private Equity

Bridgepoint, NM Rothschild
17/09/07 Symington's Leeds MBI Significant funding package provided by Yorkshire Bank and Hermes Private Equity Addleshaw Goddard, Pinsent Masons, Linklaters, PwC, Hammonds and KPMG
11/09/07 Nidd Vale Motors Harrogate MBO Funding provided by Bank of Scotland RSM Bentley Jennison
17/08/07 Keepmoat Doncaster MBO

£783m by Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance

Deloitte, Park Place Corporate Finance, DLA Piper UK LLP , Hammonds, Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, Eversheds, KPMG (tax advice)
14/08/07 Polypipe Building Products Doncaster Secondary buyout

£450m by Bank of Scotland's Integrated Finance

Livingstone Partners
14/08/07 Peter Black Holdings/Peter Black International Keighley Acquisition

£48.1m by Li & Fung

Deloitte, KPMG (Transaction Services - due diligence), Walker Morris
13/08/07 Ben Bailey Mexborough Sale £84m NM Rothschild, DLA Piper, KPMG (Corporate Finance advisor to Gladedale)
16/07/07

Jemella / GHD Ltd

Ilkley Sale

£160m

Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Eversheds, KPMG (Transaction Services - due diligence)
19/06/07 Adler and Allan Harrogate Investment £8.85m Aberdeen Asset Managers; NM Rothschild, Walker Morris
06/06/07

Kingsfield Heath

Sheffield Acquisition

£180m

Electra Partners

NM Rothschild

25/06/07

Orchard Care Homes

Leeds MBO

£175m

Freethcartwright
13/06/07 Chapelthorpe plc Wakefield Disposal £1.4m disposal of Hoyland Fox Ltd RSM Bentley Jennison
12/06/07 Zenith Vehicle Contractors Leeds MBO £40m by Barclays Private Equity Deloitte, KPMG (Transaction Services - due diligence)
04/05/07

Leeds/Bradford Airport

Leeds Acquisition

£146m

DLA Piper UK LLP , Ernst & Young, NM Rothschild
05/03/07 Encore Direct Long Marston MBO £16m by Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland Invoice Matching, Lombard BTG McInnes Corporate Finance , PKF, Irwin Mitchell, Walker Morris
01/02/07 Myratech.net plc Tadcaster Acquisition £2m acquisition of Sky High Traffic Data RSM Bentley Jennison
30/01/07 Digital Marketing Group plc Wakefield Acquisition £14.5m acquisition of Alphanumeric Group RSM Bentley Jennison
15/01/07 Christy Group Barnsley MBO £21m by Barclays Ventures, Rickitt Mitchell and Royal Bank of Scotland Lee & Priestley, Grant Thornton, CiL, Hammonds, Marsh and Cobbetts, KPMG (Tax advice)

 
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