finance 37 BCMS tops world M&A rankings
BCMS Corporate has taken the world top spot in SME M&A league tables for the first time in its 25-year history, according to new figures from Bureau van Dijk released this week.
The sell-side-only SME adviser emerged in pole position for completed transactions after a highly-successful year in the sub-£100 million deal market.
BCMS pointed to deals such as the £9.4m (US$14.3m) sale of car-seat cover manufacturer ALC Group of South Africa – whose primary customer is BMW – to Exco Technologies of Canada, alongside the £5m ($7.5m) sale of US streetlight contractor Esco Energy Services to New York-based LED lighting specialist Forcefield Energy Inc.
In the UK, high-profile completions included UK online auction website
Preloved.co.uk, which was acquired by The Hut Group. These transactions highlight the quality of SME businesses brought to market by BCMS.
Founding director David Rebbettes (pictured) said: “These rankings confirm what we have known at BCMS for some time – that our experienced deal teams across the world lead the way in delivering successful results for our clients, many of whom, like me, are owner- managers and entrepreneurs at heart.
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At WK Corporate Finance we feel that passion but what does that mean to us? Passion is what differentiates our team from the others. We feel passionately about the solution that we deliver to our clients. Finding the right route to a goal , be it selling the business that they have spent many hours and much of their lives building or helping them acquire bolt on businesses to reach their goal more quickly. To our clients that is an exceptionally important aspect of their lives and so it is to us too. Whilst we may not be entrepreneurs in the same sense as they are, we are entrepreneurs in our own field. We own and drive our business and our success is only in our own hands.
A great example of this is the journey we have just completed with the sale of Basingstoke-based firm, Procius to Mitie Group plc. Procius is a leading UK employment screening and vetting services, operating mainly in the specialist sectors of aviation and transportation. The deal offered a perfect fit for Mitie’s growing total security management business, enabling us to achieve a premium price for the shareholders.
Nick Trollope, managing director of Procius, said: “We are delighted to endorse the work of Philippa and her team at WKCF, who we have worked closely with over the past 18 months, deciding on our strategy and culminating in the sale of our business to a major UK plc. They are very professional but also good fun to work with. They maintained total commitment to the goal along with a sense of humour and positive outlook at all times (with a process as intense as a sale, we can’t overstate the value of this). We cannot thank the WKCF team enough for their work on this project. When the time comes for our next corporate finance ’adventure’, WKCF will be right beside us, for sure.“
If you would like to meet with a truly professional and passionate team to help you achieve your corporate finance goals then we are the team for you.
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“When you consider that around a third of our completions have been cross-border deals – with the added complexity that brings to transactions – it’s even more remarkable that a family-owned firm from Hampshire has been able to top the M&A rankings against some of the biggest names in the financial services sector.“
In addition to its leading global position, BCMS also ranks as number one sell-side adviser by
volume in key territories including UK, Europe and Africa under the same search criteria.
Rebbettes added: “Whether the client is from London, Lithuania or California, we’re now seeing far more multinationals acquiring at our end of the deal market, so having a professional sell-side adviser is critical for business owners looking to sell their company for maximum value.“
The top 10 global sell-side advisers as reported by Zephyr* are as follows:
2014 Rank Adviser name 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 BCMS Corporate
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin KPMG Corporate Finance PwC – Corporate Finance JP Morgan
Credit Suisse EY
Goldman Sachs Group Inc Bank of America Corporation Morgan Stanley
* The above ranking is based on global completed deals by volume from January 1 to December 31, 2014, and includes trade acquisitions, MBOs and MBIs. The ranking refers exclusively to sell-side advisers of privately-owned companies.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – FEBRUARY 2015
www.businessmag.co.uk
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