Our regional M&A team delivered record results in our most recent financial year, to 30 June 2021. It was a challenging period in so many ways, and we are delighted to share some of the deals we managed and to thank our clients and those advisors who helped us to complete them.
As we reported in our last bulletin, the six months to June 2021 were particularly active, with a number of deals being pushed through ahead of the budget. We have continued to be busy, and even allowing for some holiday for our hard working team, we expect a strong Autumn, with a good pipeline of deals.
Through the last financial year we have seen an increase in average deal size; many more deals have been in the £20m+ bracket. The increase in private equity deals has been significant, but larger trade buyers, acquiring for growth, have also been active in the UK, Far East, and Europe.
Active sectors include financial and professional services, selective parts of the leisure market, insurance broking (where we act for two active consolidators), tech and digital services, infrastructure, and builders merchants/supplies and recently architects.
The total value of the deals delivered in this year like no other was well in excess of £300m.
Jonathan Grant
Head of Corporate
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