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Deloitte's Corporate Finance team offers a unique resource to anyone involved in mergers and acquisitions activity. Their UK team alone brings together over 55 partners and 450 staff to provide wide-ranging expertise and specialist support through each phase of the M&A life cycle.
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Pinsent Masons is a top 15 UK law firm focused on sector-driven development in the UK and internationally. Their Chosen Markets strategy reflects the strength of their major company, institutional and public sector client base in those sectors. Their strategy ensures they meet clients' objectives through superior client service and a real understanding of their businesses and their marketplaces.
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Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance is a leading mid-market specialist offering a full range of M&A, Capital Markets and strategic advisory services. It is part of Smith & Williamson, a Top 10 UK professional services firm. The team works with corporates, private equity firms and management teams to help buy, develop and sell businesses and operates globally through M&A International.
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UBS is one of the world's leading providers of private banking and asset management services globally, and has over 220 Client Advisors who focus exclusively on the needs of clients in the United Kingdom. UBS Wealth Management has developed and implemented many innovative wealth management strategies for High Net Worth Individuals.
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The CV House works with selected client companies and individuals to provide a professional CV writing service. We conduct detailed telephone based or face to face discussions to ensure that we have all relevant information, including career history, achievements, future aspirations and current circumstances. We will spend as long as necessary with each individual to produce a CV that will be as effective as possible - please do look at the testimonials from some of our clients which can be found on our website.
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| Bradford University School of Management is one of Britain’s longest established business schools, currently ranked number 2 in the uk and number 8 in Europe (FT Dec. 2006).
The School provides cutting edge, yet focussed executive education to major corporates such as ASDA, Emirates Airline and the Royal Bank of Scotland as well as many SMEs. The School is widely acknowledged to be a leading provider of MBA and Masters programmes and has a solid reputation for its research capabilities. Its alumni can be found in many of the country’s leading boardrooms.
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/management/
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| Real Deals - For Europe's private equity professional the authoritative information source on all news and deals in Europe's private equity industry. Subscribers enjoy the authoritative magazine, comprehensive online coverage and access to details on every deal this decade. Go to www.realdeals.eu.com |
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Impetus Trust aims to bring money and expertise to charities and social enterprises to maximise their impact. We take an investment approach to those we support by building long term partnerships which strengthen their delivery capacity. We monitor our support and expect both accountability and returns: accountability against agreed milestones; and returns which demonstrate the social impact of these social purpose organisations (SPOs). We enable SPOs with distinctive propositions to make a transformational change - growth, merger or turnaround - so that their innovative solutions to social problems can achieve the success and scale they deserve. In this way our supporters can make the biggest difference to the lives of disadvantaged people.
www.impetus.org.uk
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Addleshaw Goddard's Private Equity practice is one of the largest specialist groups of private equity lawyers in the UK, operating nationally from offices in London, Leeds and Manchester. The team advises private equity institutions, management teams, corporates and venture-backed businesses on a full range of private equity transactions and related work. The team is part of Addleshaw Goddard's Corporate Division.
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August Equity is an independent private equity firm investing in UK medium sized growth companies valued between £10 million and £100 million in 4 sectors: Healthcare, Media, Specialist Manufacturing and Technology.
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Barclays Private Equity’s buy-out business has a team of 45 investment professionals in eight offices across five countries. With a successful track record spanning over 25 years and investments in over 350 businesses, Barclays Private Equity is one of Europe's leading mid-market private equity investors.
www.barclays-private-equity.com
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Beringea is an international private equity firm. Beringea invests in dynamic businesses guided by exceptional management in the Healthcare and Media, Brands and Intellectual Property sectors. Beringea manages more than $200 million in private equity funds.
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Candover is a leading European buyout house with a long track record of making successful investments and realizations. Established 27 years ago, Candover specializes in arranging and leading large buyouts across Europe with a particular emphasis on the UK, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia. To date, Candover has invested in over 130 buyouts worth over €40 billion.
www.candover.com
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Clearwater is the UK’s largest independent corporate finance house, focusing exclusively on unquoted mid-market transactions. Our services are always led by one of our 10 partners who have personally completed over 300 transactions worth an aggregate value in excess of €4 billion. Clearwater has offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham.
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Close Brothers is one of Europe’s leading independent corporate finance advisers with offices in London, Paris and Frankfurt. The international network spans twenty countries enabling client advisory services on transactions across the globe. Close Brother Corporate Finance provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, raising debt, restructuring distressed situations, IPO’s and increasingly pension issues. www.cbcf.com/Homepage.aspx
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As one of the world's leading financial institutions with over £580 billion assets under management and nearly 150 years experience, Credit Suisse is renowned for its excellence in the provision of services to private clients around the world. With the ability to draw upon the expertise of specialised business units that offer private banking, investment banking and asset management, Credit Suisse UK is able to bring the power of a full-service global financial services firm to meet the needs of its clients.
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With more than 950 lawyers located in 17 cities in Western Europe and the United States, Dechert LLP advises corporations and financial investors on corporate, transactional, regulatory and litigation matters. In the private equity and venture capital industry, Dechert's global corporate team advise clients on transactions ranging in value from £10 million to £1.5 billion across industries including life sciences, manufacturing, communications and business services. Areas of expertise include advising on LBOs, secondary buyouts, MBOs and MBIs and capital markets transactions.Representative clients include Apax, 3i, Carlyle Group and Crossroads.
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Duke Street Capital is an independent private equity company which principally invests in established, mid-market UK and French businesses with enterprise values of up to €300 million.
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Dunedin Capital Partners provides equity finance for management buyouts and management buyins with a transaction size of £10 million - £50 million. We are an independent mid-market private equity house, owned by our directors and staff, operating throughout the UK from our offices in Edinburgh and London. We invest in established companies which demonstrate a history of sales and profit growth, in a broad range of industry sectors including consumer products.
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Enterprise Ventures is a leading provider of private equity to high growth unquoted companies throughout the North of England and the Midlands. We are increasing our capacity to invest across England with new funds under management.
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Grant Thornton UK LLP is a leading financial and business adviser and one of the world's leading international organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms. Providing a high quality service, the UK firm advises more than 15,000 corporate and institutional clients and 25,000 private/individual clients.
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Hewitt Associates is a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm with offices in 35 countries. Our expertise in transaction due diligence avoids costly mistakes by uncovering the major people issues of a corporate transaction, including the hidden liabilities of pension schemes. Our specialist transaction teams provide clear, focused advice on purchase price adjustments, and have extensive experience of dealing with The Pensions Regulator for Clearance procedures.
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Hill Dickinson offers a comprehensive range of legal services from offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London and Chester, and its associated firm Hill Dickinson International has offices in London and Greece. The firm has 152 partners and a complement of over 1000 staff. Hill Dickinson is a major force in insurance and is well respected in the company and commercial arena. The firm’s has one of the largest marine practices in the UK following a merger with Hill Taylor Dickinson in 2006. The firm has an award winning property practice and is widely regarded as a leader in the fields of commercial litigation, employment, intellectual property, NHS clinical/health related litigation and private client.
www.hilldickinson.com
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Institute for Family Business is an independent association supporting a dynamic family owned business sector in the UK. Through IFB's events and conferences families and their owners are able to network with each other and share best practice. Our educational programmes provide access to world-class knowledge in relation to the unique challenges and opportunities family firms face. IFB also offers Custom Education Programmes, providing tailor-made training solutions to meet the family's individual needs.
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ISIS Equity Partners (‘ISIS’) is one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors. Typically, ISIS invests in transactions of between £5m and £75m in value in companies with profits in excess of £1m. Funds are invested on behalf of both retail (Baronsmead VCTs) and institutional clients. In 2004 ISIS became the Private Equity House of the Year at the BVCA/Real Deals Private Equity Awards.
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Founded in 2002, Langholm Capital is an independent mid market private equity firm focused on acquiring growing companies in the consumer sector. We combine private equity skills with an added value approach by leveraging the sector expertise, local market presence and other resources of our leading investors (Unilever, Rabobank and Whitbread), who assist in generating dealflow and adding value to our portfolio companies.
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Livingstone Guarantee is the UK's oldest unquoted corporate finance boutique specialising in company sales, acquisitions and private equity transactions with deal values ranging between £5 million and £100 million plus. We deliver expert corporate finance advice and practical help to groups and companies from around the world.
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Lyceum Capital invests in mid-sized companies operating in the UK service industries. Based in London, we are one of the few private equity firms dedicated to this area. Working alongside outstanding management teams we transform companies into market leaders..Our experienced team provides not only equity support but also advice and guidance where required.
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Marriott Harrison is a leading corporate specialist law firm. The firm has 15 partners more than half of whom are specialists in corporate finance and M&A and who have extensive experience in advising on MBO/MBI transactions whether for finance providers or management. Marriott Harrison have a specialisation in media and leisure but also advise on a range of sectors.
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Martineau Johnson are one of the UK's leading independent law firms, providing a full range of commercial legal services from our offices in Birmingham and London. They have 44 partners and more than 250 other staff. Their heavyweight corporate group actively advises management, venture capitalists, banks and companies in MBO and MBI transactions. In 2006 they advised clients on deals with a value of more than £1.1 billion.
http://www.martineau-johnson.co.uk/
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Nabarro Nathanson is one of the UK's leading commercial law firms. It currently has 114 partners and over 350 lawyers working in offices in London, Sheffield and Brussels offering a broad range of legal services to major national and international corporate, government, institutional and public sector clients.
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Noble & Co is an investment bank providing a unique range of professional services to fast growth small/mid cap companies and investment vehicles. Noble's history goes back to 1980. The company has over 120 employees based in Edinburgh and London. Noble provides services to over 200 clients through its three operating companies. All three operating companies are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Noble & Company acts as adviser, sponsor and broker to over 40 companies with values of between £2m and £250m. Noble Corporate Management provides a range of professional business services to over 150 companies from start ups to those with values of over £400m. Noble Fund Managers manages six investment funds ranging in size between £10m and £100m.
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Osborne Clarke is a European law firm that operates globally through its international network of legal businesses. Its UK offices are in Reading, London and Bristol. The firm's areas of expertise include corporate, finance and property transactions and the full spectrum of business law services, including commercial contracts, employment, outsourcing and dispute resolution.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the worlds leading financial services companies. For the past four years RBS has consistently ranked in the top 10 global banks. The RBS Group is proud to be the largest UK corporate bank by market share, with over one third of UK corporates now choosing to bank with them.
http://www.rbs.co.uk/corporate.ashx
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Rutland Partners is a highly differentiated UK mid-market private equity firm investing £10-50 million in UK based or UK focussed companies with a value of £20-200 million. Rutland focuses on underperforming businesses where they can actively engage to improve performance, enable restructuring or assist with strategic change. Rutland are not sector specific, and look for investment potential that is not dependent on external events and of a type not normally the focus of more conventional private equity providers.
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Sovereign Capital is a successful UK lower mid-market private equity investor. Independent, we invest £5-20m of equity in service based businesses, backing management teams who are committed to growing their businesses.
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Steptoe & Johnson is an international law firm with offices in London, Brussels, New York, Washington, Phoenix and LA. The firm has more than 400 lawyers worldwide and the London corporate practice acts for private equity, venture capitalists and corporates on all company and commercial matters including takeovers and mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures (UK and cross-border), shareholder agreements and venture capital finance.
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Travers Smith's Private Equity work covers every type of investment and divestment activity; start-up and early-stage investments, development capital and follow-on fundings, MBOs, MBIs, BIMBOs, IBOs and LBOs, secondary/re-engineered buy-outs, public-to-privates, exits by sale to trade/financial buyers, and receiverships.
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