International Corporate Finance

UK BEST INVESTMENT BANKS

Industrials - Small to Mid Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS KEY LEADERS

LEADING

Baird Nick Sealy (Head of Industrials)

KPMG Neill Thomas (Head of Corporate Finance), Andrew Nicholson (Head of M&A)

PwC Stuart McKee (Head of Corporate Finance), Damian Guly (Head of Transaction Services)

Rothschild Robert Leitão (Head of Global Advisory)

EXCELLENT

Catalyst Corporate Finance Andy Currie (Partner, Industrials)

Lazard Nicholas Shott (Head of UK Investment Banking), Richard Hoyle (Managing Director)

William Blair Matthew Gooch (Head of European Banking)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Altium Capital Simon Chambers (Managing Director)

Duff & Phelps Dafydd Evans (Managing Director, Industrials), Paul Teuten (Managing Director, Industrials)

Jamieson Corporate Finance Ian Jamieson (CEO)

Rabobank Willem Boezen (Global Head of M&A), Pieter Stor (Head of International M&A)

RECOMMENDED

Greentech Capital Advisors Jeff McDermott (Managing Partner)

Moelis & Company Mark Aedy (Head of EMEA Investment Banking)

N+1 Alexander Fraser (Head of M&A)

Track record: Baird is a leader in the European

Industrials sector mid-market M&A operating

out of the UK and Germany. Major deals in

Europe that Baird worked on recently were

for security specialists SimonsVoss Techno-

logies; Inspecta Group, which specializes in

providing inspections and certification; and

the condensate removal pumps manufactu-

rer, Aspen Pumps. The deals were valued at

$234, $218 and $162 million respectively.

Team & differentiation: Competitive advan-

tages of the bank stem from its focus on

providing high quality advice, global reach

and deep sector knowledge. The industrials

team in the UK is headed by Nick Sealy and

contributes almost 40% in terms of deal count

to M&A at Baird. The bank added four senior

bankers in mid-2015, two of whom are indus-

trial sector veterans, while the others are spe-

cialists in consumer and healthcare.

L eader:

Nick Sealy

E stablished:

1919

Nick Sealy

BAIRD: LEADING EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALS M&A