Welcome to the FRP Corporate Finance Spring update. You’ll discover more about our latest activity including the most recent deals, news and sector insights. Dan Salt provides an overview of the current M&A landscape including current market conditions, resilience amongst UK businesses, sector trends and diversity in deal structures; and Tom Cox shares his thoughts on the latest trends and sentiment in the debt funding market.
The Q1 2024 M&A Review from Experian has recently been released and places FRP 13th in the UK financial adviser league tables. Regionally we were 7th in the South-East, 6th in the East of England, and 5th in the South-West.
Our award success has continued this quarter with Corporate Finance Adviser wins for Darren Miller at the Business Magazine Solent Deal Awards, and Adrian Alexander at the Insider South-East Dealmakers awards. In addition FRP Corporate Finance advised on the Sale of CLC Group to H.I.G. Capital, which won ‘Large deal of the year’ at both award ceremonies.
We recently announced fifteen promotions across the business to further strengthen our corporate finance teams across the country. In London, Joel Coulson and Ed Shurville-Darlington have been promoted to corporate finance director while Umito Choji has been promoted to director within the debt advisory team.
In May we attended the AICA Global Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, joined by 40 delegates from across our international network. The two-day conference focused on cross border M&A and member collaboration and culminated with Simon Davies, being named 'most valuable player of 2023', due to his cross-border collaboration on deals.