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Harwood HuttonLaw Firm of the Year

Harwood Hutton

 

We are a medium-sized accountancy and business advisory practice, based in Beaconsfield. Our team of over 50 pride ourselves on providing a broad range of high quality strategic business planning and advice. We combine our natural common sense with extensive specialist knowledge of our profession and a sound business approach, which makes a very powerful combination.

 

Our Corporate Finance Team helps OMBs and SMEs raise finance and with M&A transactions.  We advise clients on raising debt and equity, whether this is required for a new venture or to fund growth.  We have links with local Thames Valley banks and funders as well as contacts in the City and provide a full advisory service to clients.  This includes advising on the structure of a transaction to meet commercial objectives whilst mitigating tax implications.  We also assist clients to manage the transaction process, including due diligence and liaising with solicitors over the financial impact of clauses in legal documentation required to complete the transaction.

 

If there are any financial or business matters which you would like to discuss, we would be delighted to hear from you on 01494 739500. A full range of our services can be viewed on our website:

www.harwoodhutton.co.uk

 

Venture Capitalist of the YearPricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the largest professional services firms in the Thames Valley with over 800 specialists dedicated to servicing local businesses.

 

The deals team in the Thames Valley brings together a group of professionals focused on providing advice across the deal cycle, from idea generation and strategic advice through to corporate finance and post transaction integration.

 

With a proven track record and access to in depth sector knowledge, the deals team is ideally placed to support private shareholders, corporates and private equity houses on deals both in the region and across the UK.

www.pwc.com

 

International Deal of the YearBarclays

Barclays

 

Barclays PLC is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services.

Barclays Commercial Bank is the leading bank for offering industry specialism and we have a team of experts in over 50 industry sectors.  Our Relationship Directors and Relationship Managers invest time in developing in depth relationships with their customers so that they can understand the business's individual needs and develop bespoke financial solutions tailored to their requirements.

Customers of Barclays Commercial Bank can also benefit from access to the expertise of the wider Barclays group including our International Trade and Cash Solutions team, who are specialists in risk, lending, trade and cash and treasury management.  They offer bespoke solutions to UK and international customers on a global scale.

www.barclays.co.uk/commercial

 

Venture Capital Firm RBS

The Royal Bank of Scotland

 

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group ("RBS Group") is one of the world's leading financial services companies providing a range of retail and corporate banking, financial markets, consumer finance, insurance, and wealth management services. RBS Group operates in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific serving more than 36 million personal customers world-wide and employing more than 170,000 people.

www.rbs.co.uk

PitmansBanker of the Year

Pitmans

Pitmans, founded over 150 years ago, has offices in Reading and London. The Reading office is the largest legal practice offering legal services in the Thames Valley. The firm offers a comprehensive legal service to a broad range of national and international clients, from large public companies, banks and institutions to small start-up businesses, charitable and other organisations and public sector employers.

The firm believes that a thorough understanding of the clients' business objectives is a pre-requisite to enable the firm to provide a high quality service. It endeavours to establish strong and effective partnerships with its clients to better achieve this.

The hallmarks of advice are commercial experience, efficiency, flexibility, integrity and good judgement in finding legal and commercial solutions that work for the clients. The firm believes in helping to identify business opportunities as well as advising on how to avoid the pitfalls.

Over the years the Pitmans has adopted the conscious policy of specialist diversification including recruitment of expert personnel from the City and substantial provincial practices as well as in-house. The successful policy has resulted in acquiring a name as a premier regional corporate law firm delivering significant expertise in all business areas.

Pitmans has 30 Partners and over 110 lawyers, based at our Reading and London offices.

www.pitmans.com

 

Bank of IrelandDealmaker of the year

Bank of Ireland

Bank of Ireland Business Banking UK offers tailored banking services and financing solutions of between £1m and £200m to companies of all sizes and across all sectors.

 

Bank of Ireland has an extensive business banking network across the UK and has dedicated, specialist regional teams in London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Reading and Thames Valley, Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh. It offers a full range of business banking services, including commercial lending, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debtor finance and asset finance. As well as offering its clients a relationship-driven service, Bank of Ireland prides itself on its flexible financing solutions, its fast decision making process and its competitive terms.

www.bank-of-ireland.co.uk

 

Lloyds TSB Corporate MarketsDeal of the Year

Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets

Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets is a division within the Lloyds TSB Group providing a dedicated service to businesses with annual turnover in excess of £15m. 

We offer a unique approach to relationship banking which allows our customers to use a service tailored to their distinctive needs. We aim to help them succeed by forging a strong relationship, listening to their ideas, and working with them to deliver expertise which will support in the achievement of their business objectives.  An example of this is that we have recently won the Bank of the Year for the 4th year running as voted for by the CBI Finance Directors. 

This expertise in Corporate Markets is based upon years of experience of working in this market, ensuring that we can offer a distinctive financial, banking and advisory service for our customers.

 Each service provides access to a wide range of specialists in a number of areas, including capital markets, treasury services, debt and equity finance, international business services, leasing and financial institutions.  In addition, our Corporate portal provides a range of online services. These include e-business services such as procurement, auctions, electronic invoicing and credit opinions, and e-banking services such as Internet access to international accounts for the financial institutions sector.

www.lloydstsb.com/corporate_banking.asp

 

Clydesdale BankCorporate Finance Team of the Year

Clydesdale Bank

Clydesdale Bank Financial Solutions Centres:

Clydesdale Bank, as part of the National Australia Group, operates 74 Financial Solutions Centres (FSCs) throughout the country, including Basingstoke and Reading. 

Since establishing the FSC network three years ago, Clydesdale Bank's commitment to helping businesses grow has seen it break the one billion pound loan mark to South East companies.

The teams of specialist banking partners at each FSC have a wealth of corporate financial experience, an in-depth knowledge of the area's business community and are able to make fast local decisions. As a result Clydesdale Bank is perfectly placed to offer businesses a tailored range of corporate and private banking services, including Asset Finance and Treasury Solutions to Financial Planning and Protection.

http://www.cbonline.co.uk/business

 

HSBCCorporate Finance Adviser of the Year

HSBC

At HSBC we are privileged to work with an array of different businesses throughout the Thames Valley and around the world.  Each of our clients has a unique corporate culture and management style; many have complex capital structures and more and more have a global footprint. 

 

At HSBC, we value the difference in businesses.  We recognise the characteristics that make each client unique and regularly use our vast and unrivalled network and unparalleled experience to identify the solutions that best meet the needs of our clients so as to help them reach their full potential.

www.hsbc.co.ukHW Corporate Finance

 

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HW Corporate Finance

 

 

 

HW Corporate Finance is a flexible independent entrepreneurial team of specialist corporate finance advisers. We have a wealth of experience and our clients commend us on delivering clear, practical and imaginative solutions. We provide market leading advice which is very personal and bespoke to each client. 

 

HWCF provides a complete range of advisory and due diligence services to private equity, banks, owner managers and smaller plc’s.  With offices across the South East we complete c.12 deals a year and since being founded in September 2004 we have advised on more than $1 billion of transactions.  Approximately half our deals have an international aspect with assignments in Asia, Australia, USA and Europe.

www.hwcf.co.uk

 

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Nortons

Nortons: toasting Thames Valley’s leaders in business excellence.

We are an international firm of business consultants and chartered accountants whose creative approach helps businesses unlock their potential and realise their ambitions.

Our UK base and international reach delivers proven expertise in technology and an entrepreneurial attitude that energises dynamic companies across a wide range of industry sectors.

Our teams are experts in areas as diverse as International Client Services, Corporate Finance and Consulting and Assurance and Business Advisory Services, and we are committed to sharing with you our energy and passion for business excellence that adds value every step of the way.

Discover how nortons can help groom the winning enterprises of tomorrow, visit www.nortonsgroup.com

 

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