EVENTS: DEALS & DEALMAKERS AWARDS 2020
judges will be looking at factors
including innovation. Individual
lawyers or teams at individual
firms can be nominated.
The Early Stage Deal of the
Year Award category recognises
investment capital, the level and
quality of the syndication of the
investment, the scale of the market
opportunity and potential return
for investors, and the role of the
management team and its advisors.
The judging this year will again
involve three stages before the
overall Deal of the Year is chosen.
Entrants will register their initial
interest online and then be asked
to complete a questionnaire setting
out the detail of the deal or deals
involved and their contribution to
them. The deadline for completed
questionnaires is 20 May.
Those who make the shortlist
will be interviewed by the judges
on 23 June. This year’s winners will
be announced at the Insider Deals
and Dealmakers Awards Dinner
on the evening of Thursday 10th
September at the Doubletree by
Hilton Hotel Glasgow Central in
Cambridge Street, Glasgow.
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T has been an interesting few
months for deals with the last
quarter of calendar year 2019
seeing a spurt of transactions
after the General Election.
It is against that backdrop that
Insider has opened the entries for
the Deals and Dealmakers Awards- Applications are now being
accepted across nine categories for
deals closed between 1 April 2019
and 31 March 2020 from which
the judging panel will also select an
overall Deal of the Year.
To mark the start of a decade
our independent judging panel
will award in a special category –
that of Deal or Dealmaker of the
Decade. What is the deal that is
most notable and has created most
abiding value in that time?
The Scottish-headquartered
company which delivered the most
ambitious, innovative acquisition or
acquisition strategy in 2019/20 will
be recognised in the Acquisitive
Company of the Year Award.
The Sale of the Year Award will
go to the Scottish-headquartered
company which carried out the
most successful and impressive sale
or sales in 2019/20.
The Transformational Deal of
the Year category will recognise
the deal of any type – management
buyouts, buy-ins, employee buyouts
- which transforms a Scottish-
headquartered business.
The Scottish-based company
with an annual turnover less than
£20m that has been involved in a
transformational deal will be saluted
in the SME Deal of the Year.
The Corporate Finance Team
of the Year Award will highlight
the team that made the greatest
contribution to a deal or deals in
the year. It may be a lead advisory,
financial diligence or tax team; or a
team providing specialist diligence,
market insight or advice.
An award will recognise the
funding community. The Funder
of the Year may have provided
debt, equity or an alternative
source of finance and supported
the management teams of Scottish-
based companies.
The Emerging Dealmaker of
the Year Award will recognise
a newcomer to the Scottish
dealmaking community who
has been key in making a deal or
deals happen. The individual may
have identified the opportunity or
shined during negotiations.
The Legal Advisor of the Year
category recognises the skills of
legal advisors involved in deals. TheAwards offer you the chance
to make the deal a winner
Our independent judging panel will
award in a special category – that
of Deal or Dealmaker of the Decade
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