Noble Foods (food, UK)

Advised Stonegate and its majority shareholder Clifford Kent in £170m merger with Deans Foods to form Noble Foods, the UK’s leading supplier of eggs and egg products with annual sales of some £450m.
Advised Noble Foods on raising £90m debt from GE Commercial Finance Limited.

Phynova Group plc (life sciences, UK)

Acquisition of a shareholding in Botanic Century (Beijing) Ltd.
Admission to AIM, February 2006
Raised a Pre-IPO round of £3.7 million
Raised equity from Business Angels (£1.8mn)
Advised on acquisition of drug candidates
Non-Executive Director
Founder shareholders, July 2002

Flagship Foods (food processing, UK)

Sale of company to Tulip Limited, owned by Danish Crown, 2004
Two acquisitions and sale of a subsidiary
Merger of Roach Foods & Dalehead Foods £170 mn, 1999
Raised finance for the merger from:
- HSBC Private Equity (Now Montagu Private Equity)
- Royal Bank of Scotland

Tribal Group Limited (support services, UK)

Official List of London Stock Exchange, June 2002
Executive Director
Admission to AIM, £56 million, Feb 2001
Advised on nineteen acquisitions costing £70 million
Raised equity from Gresham Trust £5.3 million
Raised senior debt from Bank of Scotland £11.3 million
Founder shareholders, March 2000

Clinovia (healthcare, UK)

Sale to LVL Medical for £26.3 million
Advised management team on buy-in/buy-out for £7 million
Financed by:
- F&C Ventures (Now Graphite Capital),
- Bank of Scotland
- Anvil Partners

Pearce Group (construction, UK)

Buy-out from Crest Nicholson plc for £4.5 million, Jan 2004
Asset finance package from Lloyds TSB
Equity from management and Anvil Partners
Non-executive Chairman

Massive Limited (pub operator, UK)

Negotiated financing package worth £14 million
Senior debt, Mezzanine debt and equity
Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance

Van Cleef & Arpels family (jewellery, France, Netherlands)

Sale of minority shareholding to Richemont for $100 million
Sale of majority shareholding to Richemont for $250 million
Non-executive director

MedLogic Global Limited (healthcare, UK)

Advised Citibank on sale to Advanced Medical Solutions plc

Occam Direct Marketing Limited (media, UK)

Advised vendors on sale to ISIS Equity Partners and management