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 Law
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 Year
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 Year
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
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
 Banker
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
 Dealmaker
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
 Deal
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
 Corporate
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
 Corporate
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.
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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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