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August 2021
Regional Corporate Update

2020-21 delivers deals in excess of £300m

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

A selection of this year's deals

PARTIAL SALE

Partial share sale of
Atelier Ten as it joined
Surbana Jurong Group

ENVIRONMENT & ENGINEERING

PE INVESTMENT

Infrastructure deal for Lightning Fibre involving PE investment and share sale to the Foresight Group

INFRASTRUCTURE

SALE

Share sale
to PE-backed
Sovos
 

BUSINESS SERVICES

ACQUISITIONS

A number of acquisitions for
Global Risk Partners

 

FINANCIAL SERVICES

SALE

Sale of
CCL Compliance to PE-backed global compliance business Waystone

CONSULTANCY

PE INVESTMENT

Private equity investment by
Sovereign Capital Partners

 

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ACQUISITION

Acquisition by
AVS Fencing Supplies of
Bell Davis Limited
 

BUILDING SUPPLIES

PE INVESTMENT

Private equity investment by
Cairngorm Capital Partners

 

MANUFACTURING

SALE

Sale of Anabas to global facilities management business Armonia, part of Sofinord Group

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

SALE

Sale of
E-zec Medical Transport Services
 

MEDICAL TRANSPORT

SALE

Advised shareholders on sale of share capital to French PLC organisation
 

LIFE SCIENCES

SALE

Sale of
HFS Milbourne
to Tilney Smith & Williamson
 

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Your DMH Stallard Regional Corporate team

Jonathan Grant
Partner
Corporate
01293 558506
Email Jonathan
Abigail Owen
Senior Corporate Counsel
Corporate
01293 558573
Email Abigail
Danos Athanasi
Partner
Corporate
01293 558532
Email Danos
Helen Mead
Partner
Corporate
01483 467431
Email Helen








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