Teams

Legal:
Addleshaw Goddard
DLA Piper
DWF
Gateley Plc
Hill Dickinson
Napthens Solicitors
Squire Patton Boggs

Corporate Finance:
Clearwater International
Cowgills
Grant Thornton
Houlihan Lokey
KPMG
MHA Moore and Smalley

VC/Private Equity:
BGF
Foresight
LDC
Maven
Palatine Private Equity
YFM

Funder:
HSBC
Praetura Group
Santander UK
Shawbrook
Tosca Debt Capital
ThinCats

Transaction Services:
BDO
Cortus Advisory
Dow Schofield Watts
EY
Knight Transaction Services
RSM

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Deals

Small Cap (up to £15m):
Nanoco Group raised £5.65m through a share placing

Maven Capital Partners acquired ProofID for £15m / Clearwater International, Maven Capital Partners

NQ64 Arcade Bars secured £2.5m in growth capital from ThinCats / Browne Jacobson, Hill Dickinson, ThinCats, Montane Finance, Pierce & Co

FourNet bought IT infrastructure business C>Ways / Palatine Private Equity, Gateley, Knight CF

Fletchers Solicitors acquired medical negligence specialist Minton Morrill / Addleshaw Goddard, Clarion Solicitors, Armstrong Watson CF, Dow Schofield Watts, Sun Capital

Biorelate secured £6.5m in a Series A investment / Craig Corporate Management, Manchester Tech Trust, Maven, Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, Triple Point Ventures, YFM

Space48 owner Dark Matter Commerce acquired Brave the Skies / Berwins, TLT, Cowgills, Foresight

Private Equity Exit:
Sykes Cottages acquired Forest Holidays Group from exiting investors Phoenix Equity Partners and LDC / Burness Paull, Eversheds Sutherland, Hogan Lovells, Mayer Brown, Travers Smith, Clearwater International, FTI Consulting, Harris Williams, Liberty Corp Finance, Springboard

CFECI Partners acquired IT support services company BCN Group from Beech Tree Private Equity / DLA Piper, Squire Patton Boggs, Clearwater International, EY,PwC, Beech Tree Private Equity, ECI Partners

WestBridge took a majority stake in Alpine Fire Engineers, investing £18.7m, while Soho Square Capital exited / Addleshaw Goddard, Pinsent Masons, BDO, Blick Rothenberg, Clearwater International. Grant Thornton, Jamieson Corporate Finance, Soso Square Capital, WestBridge, Shawbrook

TriSpan acquired a stake in Mowgli Street Food Group from Foresight / BDO, Grant Thornton, Rising Stars LP, PwC, Foresight, TriSpan, OakNorth Bank

LDC led a secondary buy-out of Horsefly from Mercia / Brabners, Slater Heelis, Squire Patton Boggs, Grant Thornton, PwC, LDC, Mercia Fund Management

Marlin Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Cloud Technology Solutions from Northedge Capital / Mayer Brown, Squire Patton Boggs, Marlin Equity Partners, NorthEdge

Greene King bought Hickory’s Smokehouse from Piper Private Equity / BDO, RSM, Piper Private Equity

M&A:
APEM acquired GoBe Consultants, supported by a £25m refinance from Virgin Money / Capital Law, Wallace, BDO, Dow Schofield Watts, Virgin Money, WestBridge

JD Sports Gyms bought Bolton-based Total Swimming / Gateley, Hill Dickinson, Cowgills CF

EG Group / Asda bought the fuel retail operations of Co-operative Group in a deal worth £605m / Addleshaw Goddard, Rothschild & Co

RSK made seven acquisitions of consultancy businesses around the UK in six weeks / Dow Schofield Watts, Cortus Advisory, DWF

Management buy out of Inprova Group / NVM Private Equity, Shawbrook, DWF

LDC acquired recruitment firm Talos360 / Houlihan Lokey, Addleshaw Goddard, DWF

International:
Fishawack acquired American healthcare advisers Avalere Health / Clearsight Advisors

US private equity firm Silver Lake took a further 4.1% share in City Football Group, worth around $200m / China Media Capital, Silver Lake

RSK Group acquired Irish company Dermot Casey and French company ADEV Environment / Dow Schofield Watts

BluprintX bought American technology business IO IntegrationDistology acquired German technology firm Squareball Digital / NorthEdge

Catalyst Clinical Research, based in North Carolina, USA, bought Aptus Clinical / Squire Patton Boggs

Public Markets:
AO World raised £40m in a share placing / Jefferies International, Numis Securities

Tatton Asset Management acquired 50% of 8AM Global in a £7m deal, with half paid as new shares / BDO, Zeus Capital, Singer Capital Markets

Sun European Partners bought K3 Capital Group for £270m / Houlihan Lokey, Numis Securities Ltd, Addleshaw Goddard

Redx Pharma raised £34m through a share placing / Panmure Gordon Corporate Finance, SPARK Advisory Partners, WG Partners

Norcros raised £18m to support the £92m acquisition of Grant Westfield / Eversheds, Shepherd & Wedderburn, Grant Thornton, Numis, EY

Dechra Pharmaceuticals raised £184m in a rights issue to support the purchase of American company Piedmont Animal Health for $210m / EY, DLA Piper, Investec

Private Company:
The Modern Milkman raised £50m in its Series C funding round / Willkie Farr & Gallagher, ETF Partners, Insight Partners, Praetura Ventures

ITS Technology Group secured £100m of funding from Aviva Investors / BDB Pitmans, Dow Schofield Watts, RSM, Aviva Investors

KPMG and Acceleris Capital formed a joint venture, focusing on businesses in technology, life sciences and ESG-related sectors / Pinsent Masons

Connex One raised £93m of Series C funding / DWF, GP Bullhound

Freedom Fibre secured £100m of scale-up funding – £84m from infrastructure investor Equitix, and a £16m debt facility from Santander / Addleshaw Goddard, Shoosmiths, PwC, Santander, Equitix, Cameron Barney, Oakley Advisory

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Individual:

Rising Star:
James Crossman – CMS Law
James Kennedy – Cowgills
Jacob Leone – LDC
Katy Philips – DWF
Laura Sisson – YFM Equity Partners
Alex Stewart – Cortus Advisory

Changemaker:
Claire Alvarez – Foresight
Hayley Brightmore Cox – Knight Transaction Services
Beth Houghton – Palatine Private Equity
Nicola Merritt – Cortus Advisory
Rebecca Rennison – EY
Victoria Stewart – The Alchemist

Rainmaker:
Pete Barkley – WestBridge
Mark Clephan – EY
Gary Davison – Tosca Debt Capital
Andrew Feeke – MHA Moore & Smalley
Dominic Orsini – Houlihan Lokey
Peter Terry – Grant Thornton