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Smith Cooper Corporate Finance, which has an office in Birmingham, has had another record-breaking year, after completing some 40 deals. This is well ahead of last year, when the firm
successfully completed 35 deals. During the past 12 months, the firm
completed a broad range of transactions in 2018/19, including two high profile deals in February, the sale of Prestige Fleet Servicing to the AA and the buy-in-management-buy-out (BIMBO) of MRDB Holdings. Prestige, a technology-led company which
provides service, maintenance and repair (SMR) services to fleet and leasing companies, was sold to the AA for £8.7m. Prestige is based in Melton Mowbray and will
continue to be run by the existing management team. MRDB has undergone a multi-million pound BIMBO under which the existing management team has been expanded
with additional shareholder-directors with specific commercial expertise. The MRDB team’s decision to undertake a
BIMBO follows a plan to ensure continued rapid growth by supplementing their existing industry experience by bringing in a new chairman, an experienced non-executive director, and an international funding partner. MRDB, based at Foston in Derbyshire and
formed in 1977 is the largest privately-owned recreational vehicle (RV) parts wholesale company in the UK, supplying more than 15,000 individual products and accessories in the motorhome, caravan, and converter market to approximately 1,700 end business customers. The business, which employs 60 in its Dove
Valley headquarters and warehouse, has delivered year-on-year sales growth, from £0.9m in 1999 to more than £23m last year. While growing fast, it has nevertheless built an unparalleled reputation for quality and
Law firm supports ex-footballer’s cause
Birmingham law firm Clarke Willmott has raised almost £3,000 at its annual charity quiz night for the Geoff Horsfield Foundation, which helps to provide homes for people left behind by society or in need of outside help. Horsfield is well known in the Midlands as an uncompromising centre forward at West Bromwich Albion and also won promotion to the Premier League at Birmingham City. The quiz, organised by Clarke
Willmott and held at the Opus restaurant in Birmingham city centre, included teams from No5 Chambers, Dains, Biddle & Webb, Rider Levett Bucknall and Kings Chambers. Rayner Grice, head of Clarke
Willmott’s Birmingham office, said: “We were delighted to have raised nearly £3,000 at our quiz – a record for this event for us – and hopefully we can go on breaking our fundraising records as we go forward in partnership with the Foundation. “We really would love to thank all
38 CHAMBERLINK April 2019
Link-up: Craig Harrison of Beeline (back, left) with members of his team and Barrie Hodge (front, right) from St Basils
Horsing around: Geoff Horsfield (right) with raffle winner Tony McDaid No5 Chambers
our friends and colleagues in the local business community who came along to support the quiz night. It really does show how important the charity’s work is, that so many gave up their money and time. “This is the first event we have
held for the Geoff Horsfield Foundation since it became our charity of the year, and we’ll be having many more so we can raise as much money as possible for them to carry on their important work.”
Beeline to sponsor homeless charity
Promotional products firm Beeline is sponsoring homeless charity St Basils during 2019. St Basils works with young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at
risk of homelessness, and helps more than 5,000 young people each year in the West Midlands region. Every year more than 1,500 young people are housed in their 34
supported accommodation schemes, which for some people includes their children as well. Jewellery Quarter-based Beeline distributes promotional products and
corporate wear, aimed at product launches and other events and for every order placed during 2019, the firm will make a donation to St Basils, which will enable the charity to continue carrying out the work it does in Birmingham and across the region.
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service, its vast product range creating a unique “one-stop-shop” offer to its business customers. Along with Smith Cooper, some 13 separate
advisers and funders worked on this structurally- complex deal, many based in the Midlands. Smith Cooper head of corporate finance
John Farnsworth said: “We are delighted to have had the opportunity to work with the founding shareholders in securing the continued success of this truly unique business – it leads the field in this expanding, friendly segment of the leisure market”. Looking to the future, despite uncertainties
in the global economic-political landscape, including Brexit, Smith Cooper is seeing no shortage of opportunities. The pipeline for 2019/20 is exceptionally strong – as a consequence, the team is looking to expand and, for the first time, is recruiting graduate accounting trainees into the corporate finance division.
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