Shortlist revealed for 2016 Rainmaker Awards
THE biggest and best deals by Yorkshire’s corporate finance community will be celebrated at the Rainmaker Awards in July, and we are today revealing the shortlist.
17 different deals have been shortlisted in the five deals categories, ranging from Business Growth Fund’s £7.6m investment in Xercise4Less up to the £1.4bn takeover of Pace by American giant ARRIS Group.
The work of the advisory teams will also be recognised, with awards for legal, corporate finance, VC/private equity, funder and transaction services teams.
The Rainmaker Awards, sponsored by YBS Share Plans, will take place at Royal Armouries, Leeds, on Thursday, July 7, and tickets can be bought online now.
The shortlists were drawn up by a 22-strong panel of people drawn from across Yorkshire’s corporate finance community and the winners will be chosen by a secure online vote, with each firm entitled to one vote each.
Invitations to the voting panel have been sent out, but if you want to be part of the process and don’t think your firm has been invited, email alex.turner@thebusinessdesk.com.
Shortlist for the 2016 Rainmaker Awards, sponsored by YBS Share Plans
Public Markets Deal of the Year
Endless bought Kier FPS, the fleet and passenger services business of Kier Group for £49.9m (Endless; Deloitte; Grant Thornton; KPMG; PwC, Sentio Partners; Eversheds; Squire Patton Boggs)
Gear4Music floated on the Alternative Investment Market (Panmure Gordon Corporate Finance; Squire Patton Boggs and Walker Morris)
Hunters floated on the Alternative Investment Market (Garbutt & Elliott Corporate Finance; Squire Patton Boggs)
Polypipe Group acquired Nuaire for £145m (Deloitte; KPMG; Squire Patton Boggs; DLA Piper)
Private Equity Exit of the Year
Cavendish Square Partners exited Camira Group, following an investment from Pricoa (KPMG; Squire Patton Boggs)
FMG was sold to Redde for £43.2m, just four months after the completion of an MBO, resulting in an exit for Endless (Deloitte; KPMG; Squire Patton Boggs)
Investor Livingbridge exited Nexus Vehicle Holdings when Bowmark Capital acquired the group in a £51m deal. (Deloitte; Park Place Corporate Finance; PwC; Addleshaw Goddard; Squire Patton Boggs)
Rubicon Partners bought Volvox Group from exiting investor Elysian Capital (PwC; Squire Patton Boggs).
International Deal of the Year
Belgian investor Betafence Corporate Services bought Hesco Bastion’s owner Heselden Holdings (Clarion Solicitors; Eversheds)
Kerfoot Group was bought by French business Avril SCA, formerly Sofiproteol (EY; Grant Thornton)
Pace was bought by American group Arris for £1.4bn (EY)
US-based Parker Hannifin Corp acquired President Engineering Group, with YFM Equity Partners exiting (KPMG; DLA Piper; Eversheds)
Small Cap Deal of the Year
Kitwave bought Hulleys Frozen Foods’ parent Angelbell for £8.03m (KPMG; DWF)
Red’s Smoque, which operates Red’s True Barbecue, secured a £9m funding package to support the opening of 8-10 restaurants (KPMG; Addleshaw Goddard; Bond Dickinson)
Xercise4Less secured a £7.6m equity investment from the Business Growth Fund (Squire Patton Boggs; Walker Morris)
M&A Deal of the Year
Investor Livingbridge exited Nexus Vehicle Holdings when Bowmark Capital acquired the group in a £51m deal. (Deloitte; Park Place Corporate Finance; PwC; Addleshaw Goddard; Squire Patton Boggs)
Investor buy-out, led by TPG Capital, and valued at £150m of an undisclosed majority stake in Poundworld Retail (PwC; Squire Patton Boggs)
Jonathan Bye led an MBO of Seabrook Group (Deloitte; KPMG; Sentio Partners; Pinsent Masons; Walker Morrs; deal backed by LDC and debt funding by Yorkshire Bank)
Legal Team of the Year
Addleshaw Goddard
DLA Piper
Eversheds
Gordons
Pinsent Masons
Squire Patton Boggs
Walker Morris
Corporate Finance Team of the Year
Deloitte
Dow Schofield Watts
EY
Grant Thornton
KPMG
Park Place Corporate Finance
PwC
VC/Private Equity Team of the Year
Business Growth Fund
Endless
Finance Yorkshire
RCapital
Funder of the Year
Barclays
HSBC
Lloyds Banking Group
RBS/Natwest
Santander UK
Yorkshire Bank
Transaction Services Team of the Year
BDO
Deloitte
KPMG
PwC
Rainmaker of the Year
Darren Forshaw, Endless
Jon Garner, LDC
Jonathan Jones, Squire Patton Boggs
Christian Mayo, KPMG
