UK
Ireland
Corporate finance: acquisitions and disposals; management buyouts, finance-raising; business planning due diligence.
Experience
Mark has over 25 years’ corporate finance experience within the Smith & Williamson team, with particular experience in advising small and medium-sized owner-managed businesses.
He has acted for clients across a range of sectors including food distribution, consumer goods, and transport and support services throughout the UK, including a number of cross-border transactions.
Notable achievements
Recent transactions include:
- Disposal of a homewares business to overseas-based multinational conglomerate.
- Acquisition advice and transaction support for specialist food sector business.
- Due diligence and advisory services on a series of acquisitions for leading European transport operator.
- Finance-raising advice and assistance for specialist packaging company.
Professional qualifications/memberships
Qualified Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ (ICAEW) corporate finance faculty.
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The IPO readiness trap: Preparing to list without losing momentum
IPO readiness projects, when conducted well, serve a dual purpose of preparing a group to both navigate the IPO process successfully and then succeed as a publicly owned group. But how do organisations ensure IPO readiness is appropriately prioritised, without compromising the group’s ability to focus on what made it successful in the first place?
