Earlier this year, Burgis & Bullock Corporate Finance was voted
Management Buy-Outs Advisory Firm of the Year at the Corporate Livewire's 2015 M&A Awards.
"This is one of the first
management buy-outs in the Middle-East of a specialist financial institution and may change the trend of how financial institutions are owned and operated in the region," Mohammad Sotoudeh, Essdar's chief executive, said in a statement, reports Reuters.
Practically unknown outside of the corporate world, the Merseyside dealmakers are the financial alchemists who find the cash for company takeovers, mergers and
management buy-outs.
Mr Marwood is a partner heading up Grant Thornton's corporate finance team in Yorkshire and the North East, with more than 20 years experience of advising business owners on acquisitions, disposals,
management buy-outs, fundraising, succession planning and general strategic development.
While admitting that CAMRA could do very little to stop takeovers and mergers, Protz believes the main consideration is for breweries to remain in local hands - and points to
management buy-outs and local cooperatives as the way to achieve it.
In corporate law he has advised clients in major acquisitions, sales,
management buy-outs and buy-ins and public and private equity investments.
This means more "orphans" becoming
management buy-outs, or merging with former competitors to create new businesses.
He joins from Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance, and specialises in
management buy-outs acquisitions and disposals of businesses, financial modelling and transaction services (including due diligence).
Alchemy is a venture capital company, registered in the Channel Islands and specialising in leveraged and
management buy-outs and buy-ins.
The Company is owned by management and Cravey, Green & Wahlen (CGW), an Atlanta, Georgia based private equity firm specializing in
management buy-outs of middle-market companies, with particular expertise in the packaging industry.
A spokesman said : "There is no truth in the rumour that NCB is for sale, or that there is any discussion about
management buy-outs, management buy-ins or joint ventures or anything else.
He said yesterday that proposed
management buy-outs for Warehouse, Principles, Racing Green and Hawkshead were on track.