Corporate Finance

Crowe Clark Whitehill's Corporate Finance team is a leading authority in advising management teams, owner managed businesses, private and quoted companies of all sizes and institutional investors, across a wide variety of sectors.

We are mid-market specialists. The majority of the transactions that we are involved with have a value between £1 million and £100 million; albeit we do also advise on larger transactions, particularly when these have a cross-border component.

We offer a multidisciplinary service combined with a high level of personal attention. We understand that mid-market transactions don't suit a 'one size fits all' process, and have the flexibility to tailor our advice and services to meet the requirements of each unique situation.

Our Corporate Finance Partners come from a range of backgrounds, including accountancy, banking and industry. Between us we have worked on hundreds of transactions, domestic and international, and have many years combined experience.

As a member of the Crowe Horwath International network, we can call on the expertise of local transaction support and advisory professionals in 640 offices in over 100 different countries. Our international corporate finance colleagues are trained to common standards using consistent procedures, in order to offer a seamless service on cross-border transactions.

Peter Varley

Head of Corporate Finance

Peter specialises in cross border transactions as well as due diligence and investigation services. He has acted on transactions involving companies with operations in the US, mainland Europe and Asia. Peter has also acted as reporting accountant on a number of IPOs and substantial transactions on the Official List, AIM and other public markets. More

Stephen Bullock

Partner

Stephen specialises in advising corporate clients both nationally and internationally, ranging from smaller owner-managed businesses to larger private and listed companies. He has a particular expertise in the AIM market. More

Simon Jordan

Partner
Simon specialises in advising corporate clients on lead advisory and transaction support assignments, including MBOs and corporate buy and builds across a wide range of sectors, and including cross border transactions. More

Nicola Horton

Partner

Nicola specialises in providing lead advisory services to quoted and private companies, advising on M&A, fundraisings, MBOs, IPOs, Takeover Code transactions and Section 21 approvals. She has particular expertise in media and entertainment, but also advises companies in property, business support services and food manufacture. More

Robin Stevens

Partner

Robin specialises in corporate advisory and reporting assignments, raising venture capital, MBOs, capital reconstructions, pre-flotation planning and valuations. He has also advised on acquisitions and disposals by public and private companies as well as on numerous IPOs and secondary offerings in the UK and overseas. More

Geert Struyven

Partner

Geert provides lead advisory services on assignments including sale mandates, corporate acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs. He also has extensive experience in transaction support, including flotations and subsequent public fund raisings, vendor due diligence private equity investigations and acquisition due diligence. Geert also undertakes valuations. More

Ian Weekes

Partner

Ian heads the Kent offices' transaction support team. As well as general due diligence assignments, he acts as reporting accountant on IPOs. Ian has a diverse portfolio of clients including companies active in the food, travel, gaming and financial services sectors. More

Paul Blythe

Director

Paul specialises in corporate advisory and reporting assignments. He has a particular expertise in the AIM market advising both national and international companies. Paul specialises in the mining, oil and gas and renewable energy sectors.

Wes Fell-Smith

Director

Wes has over seven years' experience covering both in-house M&A and advisory roles. His experience has mainly been in advising private companies on acquisitions and disposals, MBOs, the raising of debt, development and venture capital across a wide range of sectors.

Chulanga Jayawardana

Director

Chulanga specialises in financial due diligence and has provided professional services to private equity firms, banks, and strategic corporate buyers across a broad range of industries. He has experience on cross-border transactions and has also worked on a number of IPOs and other public company transactions.

Andy Kay

Director

Andy specialises in the provision of lead advisory services into a diverse group of industry sectors. His focus is on mergers and acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs, sale mandates and refinancing assignments, principally within the SME arena. Andy has also undertaken many transaction support assignments reporting to both acquirers and funders.

Marty Lau

Director

Marty specialises in corporate advisory and reporting assignments in the UK and overseas, in particular companies operating in China and South East Asia. He worked in Hong Kong for two years prior to returning to the UK in 2006. Marty is a native Cantonese speaker who also speaks Mandarin.

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Acquisitions

Target selection and approaches
Pricing
Negotiation
Acquisitions due diligence
Management buy outs
Management buy ins
Structuring and tax advice

Disposals

Exit planning
Preparation of sales memorandum
Identification of potential acquirers
Confidential approaches
Negotiation
Vendor due diligence
Vendor tax advice

Capital markets

Reporting accountant services
IPO advice
Takeover code advice
Rule 3 advice
Public offers
Public to privates
Delistings
Public company due diligence

Capital raising and refinancing

Business plan preparation
Financial modelling
Identification of potential investors
Institutional financings
Section 21 approval of investment documentation
Pre-investment due diligence
Pre-lending reviews
Structuring and tax advice

Business advisory

Strategic advice to company boards
Joint venture planning
Setting up business abroad
Valuations
Restructuring advice
Investment advice
Long-term planning for shareholder value

Changes to the VCT regime could threaten buyouts

Changes to Takeover Code come into force

Raising equity finance just got easier for SMEs

Peter Varley
London, UK
+44 (0)20 7842 7353

Changes to the VCT regime could threaten buyouts

Raising equity finance just got easier for SMEs

Until very recently, if a company wished to raise more than €2.5 million through an offer of securities, or wished to approach more than 100 investors, then it had to issue an FSA-approved prospectus. However, from 31 July 2011, certain changes to the law mean that a company can now raise up to €5 million or approach up to 150 investors without the need for a prospectus.

The Global Corporate Advisor

In this month's newsletter we examine the implications of the Capital Markets Law on Kuwait’s M&A market; we provide a practical overview of valuation methodologies for closely held companies; and we discuss the effect of US healthcare reforms and M&A incentives in the healthcare M&A environment. Download pdf.