33 CORPORATE FINANCE TEAM
OF THE YEAR AWARD
SPONSORED BY HSBC WINNER Meridian Corporate Finance
The winners from Meridian Corporate Finance
The Corporate Finance Team of the Year is always one of the most sought-after awards on the night.
Sponsored by HSBC, it attracted a host of nominations, three of whom were shortlisted: Meridian Corporate Finance, RSM Tenon and Spectrum Corporate Finance.
Having successful completed 29 deals during the qualifying period, the RSM Tenon team was hoping to follow the footsteps of Darren Miller‘s success in winning the CF Adviser of the Year award.
they were praised for using a variety of local professionals. One said: “In a tough market, Meridian is a high-calibre contender for this award and I believe that, on this occasion, there isn‘t a stronger candidate.“
The audience heard the firm had worked on deals including the acquisition of Portsmouth‘s Cope Allman Jaycare by Swedish company Nolato; the sale of IGT to Stadium Group; and the MBO of City Motor Holdings. The diverse range of deals included the MBI at Dinks and the £60 million acquisition of Northgate Managed Services.
With 13 lead advisory transactions over the year, ranging in value from £1m to £18m, Meridian was described as among the most active in terms of deals volume in the Solent region.
Nominations said Michael Barcia and Darren Thompson are renowned locally as successful deal doers and
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Deals included the sale of FibreSpan, the sale of Coolmation Group and MBOs of RMA Consulting, Zenergi and Spinlock. One nomination commented: “A highly professional, thoroughly hard working corporate finance team who steered me through to the conclusion of a life changing deal. I would recommend them to anyone about to sell their business.“
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As the third contender, Spectrum Corporate Finance worked on deals including the disposal of Winchester-based Industry Media to James Grant Group; the sale of the Outside Broadcasting business owned by Arqiva and operated out of Crawley and Winchester, to two separate trade buyers; the Petromedia deal and the sale of Serco Learning to ACS.
Mark Frettingham, head of corporate banking southern at HSBC was asked to the stage to reveal the name of the winner – Meridian Corporate Finance.
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A delighted Michael Barcia said: “We are thrilled to win the award for Corporate
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Finance Team of the Year. 2013 is our 11th year as advisers based in the Solent region, and while this is not our first award it‘s definitely the one we wanted. We really enjoy what we do and pride ourselves on both our service delivery and completion rate.
“Our completion rate is market leading (over 90%) as we truly embrace the team ethic, involving all other advisers from an early stage. This enables us to pre- empt issues that come up in the latter stages of a deal so there are no surprises, which often entails early work for lawyers, accountants, wealth managers, tax and other advisers as well as us.
“Our work is made all the more enjoyable by this team ethic, and as such we‘d like to thank our clients, staff (both past and present), secondees and fellow professionals for their contribution to this award.“
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