FORMER Deloitte dealmaker Roger Esler has launched a Yorkshire office for specialist corporate finance advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts.

Mr Esler will lead the office, based at Thorpe Park in Leeds, which will cover Yorkshire and the North East.

Established in 2002, Dow Schofield Watts, based in Daresbury, near Warrington, provides advice to growing businesses in both the public and private markets.