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If you are exploring any elements of a private equity transaction, whether it is MBOs, MBIs, secondary buyouts or exits, we are here to help.
How we can advise you
You can draw on the experience of a team that has advised clients on MBOs, MBIs, institutional purchases and public to private transactions. We are also experienced in early stage seed or venture capital investment and further funding rounds through to secondary buy-outs and bolt-on acquisitions and exits across all sectors.
Our specialist team has strong links with investors and equity houses in the local North West region and national private equity markets, which can help furnish opportunities and introductions for your business seeking investment for growth.
Our team is also a respected leading advisor to management teams, knowledgeable in market price and the points that matter to help protect your value to exit, providing, clear commercial advice to help secure the investment you are seeking.
You can have confidence that the way in which we manage risk for our clients protects their investments and delivers deals on time and on budget.
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How our team will work with you
Our private equity team offers a fully integrated service with our strong mergers and acquisitions practice. We also work in close collaboration with our tax, employment and debt advisory colleagues to unlock and realise value for our clients.
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Our clients
We have many years’ experience advising private equity houses and venture capital investors, private equity-backed businesses and management teams, in particular in the mid-market and equity gap sectors of the UK market.
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Our experience
- Advising the management team of global healthcare communications agency Fishawack Health on its sale to Bridgepoint
- Advising private equity firm LDC on its investment in Rhino Products, Europe’s leading manufacturer of light commercial vehicle accessories
- Advising businessman and philanthropist Jim Mellon on his investment in the £3 million Series A funding round raised by psychedelic medicine company Beckley Psytech
- Advising BGF on its investment in A Wilderness Way, a Cumbria-based provider of specialist residential childcare and crisis intervention services
- Advising UK Flooring Direct on an £8 million investment by BGF
- Advising private equity firm NorthEdge Capital on the sale of Cubic Motion, a world leader in computer vision and facial animation technology, to Epic Games
- Advising Praetura Ventures on its £2.25 million investment in chemical tech company Liverpool ChiroChem and on its £1.35 million investment round in Manchester-based technology company Culture Shift, for its confidential workplace harassment reporting platform
- Advising Merseyside Loan and Equity Fund on the management buyout of Charles Stanley Financial Services from the listed Charles Stanley Group
- Acting for the sellers and the management team of ITC Luxury Travel, which was acquired by the private equity firm NorthEdge Capital
- Advising Fishawack Limited on its secondary buyout backed by Growth Capital Partners
- Advising Next Wave Partners in connection with the £51m partial exit from Fox International Group to Mayfair Private Equity, providing a 3x return on investment money just 12 months after initially advising Next Wave on its original investment
- Advising motor retailer Rockar on an investment from private equity houses Maven Capital Partners and NVM Private Equity LLP
- Advising private equity firm Foresight Group on its £3m investment in diagnostic imaging service provider, Med Imaging Healthcare
- Advising on the management buyout of Glendale Foods Ltd
- Advising Next Wave Partners on its acquisition of Leicester-based Roof-Maker for £30 million
- Advising Enterprise Ventures on the management buyout of Blue-I Event Technology
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