GLOBAL information services giant Experian has named the UK Corporate Finance team at Azets as most active advisor in Wales.
Azets, with offices in Cardiff, Swansea and St Asaph in North Wales, was also named second most active advisor in the UK, as well as coming first place in the North East and Yorkshire & Humber.
Key sectors in Wales were manufacturing/engineering and wholesale/distribution, with Azets’ Cardiff-based corporate finance partner Katherine Broadhurstreaching a career milestone of 250 deals.
Katherine said: “Seeing us ranked amongst the most active advisers in the UK is a fantastic achievement, a tribute to all the work we’ve put in.
“It is a reflection of the consistency of deal activity across the entire team, who have completed an average of two deals per month over the last five years, regardless of the political issues, tax changes and varying interest rates that affect the market.
“I firmly believe that this is down to the resilience of the SME market, whose firms want to grow and evolve and see looking for or making investment as the only way of staying competitive. I look forward to working with more of these firms as the year progresses.”
The first quarter of this year saw Azets’ Corporate Finance team work across a combination of buy-and-sell-side transactions nationally, with the most demand coming from the professional services and industrials sectors.
Lee Humble, UK Head of Corporate Finance at Azets, the international accountancy and business advisory group, said: “We’ve worked hard building a genuinely national corporate finance team, built around exceptional people operating in local markets across the UK, and Katherine reaching her 250-deals milestone is a reflection of that.
“The Experian results show that strategy is working – and we’re keeping focused on delivery for businesses as activity and demand continue to accelerate.
“Our benefit within Azets is that we specifically undertake an equal balance of buy side and sell side work – with the skillsets and contacts across each really helping us hold our execution rates which have not wavered despite the headwinds in play.
“Cross-border deal flow has always been a key strand of our workflow, and continues, albeit this is one field where we see more caution – with a number of US buyers in particular pulling back since the spring.”
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