{"id":2138155,"date":"2025-05-01T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/?p=2138155"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:54:57","slug":"yorkshire-rainmakers-awards-2025-shortlist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/news\/2138155-yorkshire-rainmakers-awards-2025-shortlist-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Rainmakers Awards 2025 shortlist revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The shortlist has been revealed for the 2025 Yorkshire Rainmakers Awards.<\/p>\n

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Around 40 judges from the region\u2019s corporate finance community met in Leeds this week to review the deals from the last 12 months, and to select the teams and individuals who have had the biggest impact.<\/p>\n

The winners will be announced on Thursday, June 5, at New Dock Hall in Leeds. For more information and to book your tickets, visit the Rainmaker Awards website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The awards are sponsored by Tinkle<\/p>\n

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\"\"TheBusinessDesk.com Yorkshire editor Sheryl Moore said: \u201cI\u2019d like to thank the judges who had a difficult task in selecting the best teams, individuals and deals of the year from many outstanding entries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are looking forward to celebrating the very best of Yorkshire’s corporate finance community when the winners are revealed at the awards dinner next month.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The 2025 Yorkshire Rainmakers Award Shortlist<\/strong><\/h2>\n

TEAMS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Regional Legal Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Brabners
\nClarion
\nGordons
\nHill Dickinson
\nSchofield Sweeney
\nWalker Morris
\nWard Hadaway<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

National Legal Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Addleshaw Goddard
\nEversheds Sutherland
\nFreeths
\nPinsent Masons
\nShoosmiths
\nSquire Patton Boggs
\nWomble Bond Dickinson<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

Regional Corporate Finance Advisory Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Castle Square Corporate Finance
\nCerelo Advisory
\nDow Schofield Watts
\nPark Place Corporate Finance
\nSentio
\nTranslink<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

National Corporate Finance Advisory Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Azets
\nClearwater
\nForvis Mazars
\nGrant Thornton
\nKPMG
\nRothschild
\nRSM<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

VC\/Private Equity Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

BGF
\nEndless
\nForesight
\nLDC
\nNimbus
\nYFM<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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Debt Funder Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

HSBC
\nLloyds
\nOakNorth
\nSantander
\nThinCats
\nVirgin Money<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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Asset-based Lending Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arbuthnot
\nClose Brothers
\nHilco Valuation
\nIndependent Growth Finance
\nReward Finance
\nSecure Trust Bank
\nShawbrook
\nUltimate Finance
\nXL Business Finance<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

Transaction Services Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cortus Advisory
\nDow Schofield Watts
\nEY
\nGrant Thornton
\nKPMG
\nPwC
\nRSM
\nTranslink Corporate Advisory<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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Insurance Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Aon
\nGallagher
\nHowden Group
\nMarkel
\nMarsh
\nPartners&
\nPIB Insurance Brokers
\nTysers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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Turnaround Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Alvarez & Marsel
\nBegbies Traynor
\nCortus Advisory
\nEY
\nFRP
\nInterpath
\nPwC
\nTeneo<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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Early-stage Investment Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Finance Yorkshire
\nLifted Ventures
\nMaven Capital Partners
\nMercia
\nNorthern Gritstone
\nPar Equity
\nPraetura
\nYFM<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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North Yorkshire Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Crombie Wilkinson
\nHunter Gee Holroyd
\nLithgow Perkins
\nParsons
\nRaworths
\nWare & Kay<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

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East Yorkshire Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Andrew Jackson
\nDutton Moore
\nGosschalks Solicitors
\nWilkin Chapman Rollits
\nSmailes Goldie
\nTC Group<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

South Yorkshire Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Castle Square Corporate Finance
\ngbac
\nHart Shaw
\nHawsons
\nHentons
\nShorts
\nVirgin Money<\/p>\n

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\n

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INDIVIDUALS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Rising Star of the Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sophie Andran, KPMG
\nJosh Astill-Headley, Squire Patton Boggs
\nJames Atkinson, RSM
\nJames Baker, BGF
\nRob Cunningham, Pinsent Masons
\nTom Hopwood, Addleshaw Goddard
\nAndy Hyde, HSBC
\nTom Kaye, Clearwater
\nMegan Thurman, Pinsent Masons<\/p>\n

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Changemaker of the Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jessica Armstrong, Lloyds Bank
\nAnna Ashford, ALT Legal
\nBen Coggin, EY
\nAlex Fogal, EY
\nHannah Kendrick, Squire Patton Boggs
\nRebecca Rennison, EY
\nJeremy Thomas, Clearwater<\/p>\n

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Rainmaker of the Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Andy Barlow, Sentio
\nRichard Goldsack, Clearwater
\nCarly Gulliver, Addleshaw Goddard
\nBarry Jackson, BGF
\nPaul Mann, Squire Patton Boggs
\nBen Peacock, Park Place
\nAndrew Ross, Endless LLP
\nGiles Taylor, KPMG<\/p>\n

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DEALS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

BGF funding into Boxphish<\/strong>
\nSquire Patton Boggs, BGF, The Tax Advisory Partnership, Walker Morris, KPMG<\/p>\n

My Pension Expert of Tenet&You from Tenet<\/strong>
\nAddleshaw Goddard,\u00a0Park Place, Palatine, Cortus Advisory, Thistle Advisory<\/p>\n

Newsome bought equipment manufacturer Penmann<\/strong>
\nShoosmiths,\u00a0Schofield Sweeney,\u00a0Castle Square Corporate Finance,\u00a0Brown Butler<\/p>\n

MBAA acquisition of Riva Foods and Mother Riley’s Bakery<\/strong>
\nThincats,\u00a0Park Place,\u00a0RSM,\u00a0Irwin Mitchell,\u00a0Cortus Advisory<\/p>\n

BGF’s \u00a35.5m investment in TaperedPlus<\/strong>
\nComhar,\u00a0Dow Schofield Watts,\u00a0Freeths,\u00a0Deloitte,\u00a0BGF,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs,\u00a0BDO<\/p>\n

Pressure Technologies sold its Precision Machined Components division to Indian group Raghu Vamsi Machine Tool<\/strong>
\nDow Schofield Watts,\u00a0Addleshaw Goddard,\u00a0BDO,\u00a0Shoosmiths<\/p>\n

Whitakers Chocolates was bought by LDC-backed Bramble Foods<\/strong>
\nGordons,\u00a0Fivefold Associates,\u00a0Armstrong Watson,\u00a0Gateley Legal,\u00a0Virgin Money,\u00a0LDC<\/p>\n

Disposal of Bartoline by Paramount Retail Group to Tetrosyl<\/strong>
\nHill Dickinson,\u00a0CG Professional,\u00a0Forvis Mazars<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

Medium Deal of the year (\u00a310m-\u00a350m)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NVM invested into Helix Tools owner MRO+ Solutions<\/strong>
\nWomble Bond Dickinson,\u00a0NVM Private Equity,\u00a0Browne Jacobson, Cairngorm Capital<\/p>\n

BGF backed Hull-based Tevalis<\/strong>
\nAddleshaw Goddard,\u00a0PwC,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs,\u00a0BGF,\u00a0BDO<\/p>\n

Latus Health Group secured investment from NorthEdge Capital<\/strong>
\nShoosmiths, Addleshaw Goddard,\u00a0NorthEdge Capital,\u00a0Pinsent Masons,\u00a0Santander,\u00a0Houlihan Lokey,\u00a0BHP,\u00a0BDO,\u00a0PSMI<\/p>\n

NorthEdge completed the sale of Cutwel to Inflexion<\/strong>
\nWomble Bond Dickinson,\u00a0NorthEdge Capital,\u00a0Sentio,\u00a0Addleshaw Goddard,\u00a0Inflexion,\u00a0PwC,\u00a0Virgin Money,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs<\/p>\n

Nimbus acquired manufacturer National Floorcoverings Group<\/strong>
\nShoosmiths,\u00a0Travers Smith,\u00a0Geldards,\u00a0Gateley,\u00a0Together Commercial Finance,\u00a0Nimbus,\u00a0TLT,\u00a0Arbuthnot,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs<\/p>\n

Online florist Prestige Flowers merged with Flowerline<\/strong>
\nSquire Patton Boggs,\u00a0Park Place,\u00a0ThinCats,\u00a0Clarion,\u00a0Blacks Solicitors,\u00a0Cortus Advisory<\/p>\n

Three Hills invested in Operam Education Group, with BGF exiting<\/strong>
\nDow Schofield Watts,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs,\u00a0Grant Thornton,\u00a0Tax Advisory Partnership,\u00a0BGF,\u00a0KPMG,\u00a0Addleshaw Goddard,\u00a0Three Hills,\u00a0DLA Piper,\u00a0RSM,\u00a0Clearwater,\u00a0HSBC<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Large Deal of the Year (over \u00a350m)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sale of majority shareholding in SmartSearch to Triple Private Equity<\/strong>
\nSquire Patton Boggs,\u00a0Rothschild & Co,\u00a0KPMG; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom;\u00a0Deloitte,\u00a0Triple Private Equity<\/p>\n

Investment into A-Safe by IK Partners<\/strong>
\nWillkie Farr & Gallagher (UK),\u00a0IK Partners,\u00a0HSBC,\u00a0Freeths,\u00a0KPMG<\/p>\n

Acquisition of Evri by Apollo Global Management, providing an exit for Advent International<\/strong>
\nHSBC,\u00a0Rothschild & Co,\u00a0EY,\u00a0PwC<\/p>\n

US-based Automated Industrial Robotics bought Sewtec Automation from Endless<\/strong>
\nEndless, Rothschild & Co, Squire Patton Boggs, KPMG, EY<\/p>\n

MBO of Huddersfield-based e-commerce retailer Interior Goods Direct and Green & Brown<\/strong>
\nSentio,\u00a0EY,\u00a0Forvis Mazars,\u00a0Addleshaw Goddard,\u00a0Walker Morris,\u00a0Santander<\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs Alternatives acquired Adler & Allan, providing an exit for Sun Capital<\/strong>
\nPark Place; Weil, Gotshal and Manges;\u00a0Houlihan Lokey,\u00a0Sun Capital,\u00a0Goldman Sachs, HSBC,\u00a0KPMG<\/p>\n

BJSS was bought by CGI Group Holdings Europe<\/strong>
\nAddleshaw Goddard,\u00a0KPMG<\/p>\n

Sale of Doncaster-based Senior Architectural Systems to ASSA ABLOY<\/strong>
\nClearwater,\u00a0Shakespeare Martineau,\u00a0KPMG,\u00a0Eversheds Sutherland, Grant Thornton<\/p>\n

Exponent Private Equity invested into Hippo Digital, with Growth Capital Partners exiting<\/strong>
\nPark Place,\u00a0KPMG,\u00a0Squire Patton Boggs,\u00a0Exponent,\u00a0Grant Thornton<\/p>\n

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