DEALS AWARDS2013 THAMES VALLEY Deals take centre stage in gala Awards evening


For the first time in four years, the Thames Valley Deals Awards stood proud in their own right at last month’s magnificent gala evening at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre.


The event, attended by more than 250 guests from across the region’s dealmaking business community, underlines the powerful success of the corporate finance community throughout Reading, Oxford and the wider Thames Valley.


Opening the proceedings, David Murray, publisher of The Business Magazine, acknowledged that it had been an “ambitious step” to organise two separate Deals Awards events this year – one for the Thames Valley and one for Solent – but said the number and standard of nominations, together with the demand for tables, proved it was the right decision going forward.


He drew the audience’s attention to the fact that in the mid-market sector, deal volumes across the region had increased by some 13%; while in the South East, professional services and business services were the most active sectors, with IT accounting for 10% of deal flow.


Murray paid a special thank you to category sponsors Grant Thornton, HMT, HSBC, Leumi ABL, Lloyds Bank, Pitmans, PwC, Spectrum Corporate Finance and UBS for their support, and also paid tribute to the hard work of the judges.


Host for the evening was TV presenter Mark Durden- Smith, whose quick wit and sense of humour provided the perfect foil for the event’s heavyweight presentations.


In true corporate finance community style, the audience also dug deep into their pockets to support the evening’s charity table collection, which raised £2,854 for Brain Tumour Research.


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