Sponsors’ Information
Dealmaker of the Year - Lower Mid Market - 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 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 - Mid
Market - Barclays
The Barclays Corporate Thames Valley and Solent
teams are delighted to sponsor this year's Dealmaker of the Year Award.
With offices located across Reading, Basingstoke,
Heathrow, Slough, Southampton and Bournemouth, our team of 60 relationship
directors include specialists supporting customers in the property, education,
healthcare, retail and professional practices sectors and, alongside our
in-house and local support teams, are dedicated to ensuring our customers
receive the highest levels of expertise and customer service.
Barclays is acutely aware of our responsibilities in
the current environment and we remain committed to creating and maintaining a
platform for our clients to succeed. Of course this means continuing to lend to
businesses, and we are well placed to do so, as we remain well capitalised with
a strong balance sheet. A dedicated Strategic Debt Finance team is further
evidence of our desire to support local businesses by enabling us to assess and
analyse at a pace specific event driven financing needs.
We support our customers in other ways too. Our
Turning the Corner events aimed at connecting businesses and educating clients
on best practice throughout the economic downturn are well received. The
programme includes a website offering third party guidance from a range of
industry experts alongside Barclays perspective on market conditions and
developments, visit
www.barclaysturningthecorner.com
By offering our clients specific financial
solutions, a dedicated banking team and value adding forums, we believe their
businesses will be better positioned when the economy recovers in the coming
months.
www.barclaysturningthecorner.com
Banker
of the Year - Paris Smith
Paris Smith’s 28 partners and total
complement of over 150 provide commercial and private clients alike with
considered and effective practical advice as a means of achieving their
objectives.
We are based in the centre of Southampton but our
clients come from all parts of the country and beyond in search of specialist
advice we can provide.
As a firm we also aim to make a real contribution to the
community in the Solent region both in terms of active participation and social
responsibility.
www.parissmith.co.uk
Bank
of the Year - Clarke Willmott
Clarke Willmott is delighted to be sponsoring the
Bank of the Year category in the Deals Awards 2010. Clarke Willmott won the Deal
of the Year category in 2009.
The firm, which has a strong Southampton office, says: "Our roots are in the
South West and go back as far as 1898. We’re proud of our heritage but like any
fast-growing business we’ve also changed. Since 2000 we’ve more than doubled in
size and turnover.
"Our expansion has seen us described as the most ambitious of the next
generation of national firms. We’re not led by any particular service, we’re
just client led: a strategic resolve which has paid off handsomely in our
emerging reputation in sectors such as real estate and construction, retail,
sport, leisure, as well as wealth management for high-net-worth individuals."
www.clarkewillmott.com
Management Team of the Year - PricewaterhouseCoopers
This category recognises the management teams that have built significant value
in their companies during a tough period through successfully achieving a key
merger or acquisition.
www.pwc.co.uk
Corporate
Finance Adviser of the Year - HSBC
Corporate Finance Team 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.uk/corporate
Venture Capital Firm
of the Year - The Royal Bank of Scotland
As the UK’s leading corporate bank, our aim is to help UK businesses succeed.
Key to that support is being part of local business communities. From our
offices in Reading we provide comprehensive banking services to many Thames
Valley organisations.
Our customers each have a dedicated Relationship Director who maintains a
close understanding of their customers’ organisations to make sure we’re always
aware of their needs however simple or complex these may be. Customers also
benefit from the skills and expertise of specialists across the RBS Group which
their Relationship Directors co-ordinate to develop tailored solutions to help
customers succeed. These specialist areas include helping customers free up
working capital through asset and invoice finance, exploit opportunities to
expand by trading internationally and mitigate interest rate and foreign
exchange risk via the financial markets.
Whilst the economy continues to face unprecedented challenges, RBS is in a
strong position to back good opportunities for its customers. We’ve committed to
make £16 billion of new lending available to support UK companies both this year
and next.
www.rbs.co.uk
Law Firm of the Year - Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton UK LLP is a
leading financial and business adviser, operating out of 30 offices and 3 staff
support sites. Led by 235 partners and employing over 4,000 of the profession's
brightest minds, we provide personalised assurance, tax and specialist advisory
services to over 40,000 individuals, privately-held businesses and public
interest entities. Our offer to the market is great depth of expertise,
delivered in a distinctive and personal way. Through proactive and partner-led
client relationships, our teams deliver solutions to problems, not pre-packaged
products and services.
Our deep-rooted experience in the issues affecting
mid-sized businesses, combined with the true global reach and resources of Grant
Thornton International Ltd mean that we're uniquely placed to deliver the best
advice, in a seamless way - regardless of service line, regardless of location.
We are a member firm within Grant Thornton International
Ltd, one of the world's leading international organisations of independently
owned and managed accounting and consulting firms. Clients of member and
correspondent firms can access the knowledge and experience of over 2,600
partners in over 100 countries and consistently receive a distinctive,
high-quality and personalised service wherever they choose to do business.
www.grant-thornton.co.uk
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