AI Magazine Issue 11 2018

34 Acquisition International - Issue 11 2018 Cavendish is one of the UK’s leading sell-side M&A advisor. Following their recent success in AI’s 2018 Year in Review where they righteously awarded the accolade Mid-Market M&A Advisory Firm of the Year – 2018, we profiled the firm to discover more about their innovative ways. or nearly 30 years, Cavendish has only acted for business owners. In the previous year, they have advised on the sale of 19 businesses, helping proprietors achieve the best possible price for their companies, finding new owners who are able to take those businesses forward and accelerate their growth and performance. By understanding the range of businesses and technologies to a micro level is the challenge that the team at Cavendish have set themselves. Helping the firm to achieve this objective is their specialist team led by experts with backgrounds in fields, such as engineering and finance together with years spent in corporate finance. Cavendish’s entrenched expertise in a vast range of subsectors is matched by unrivalled contacts with leading UK and multinationals. In addition to this, they can leverage centres of excellence within Oaklins such as the oil and gas team in Dallas, their aerospace team in Seattle or the automotive and aerospace hub in Germany. Oaklins is the world’s most experience mid-market M&A advisor. Over the last five years, Oaklins specialists have closed over 1,500 deals involving Company: Cavendish Corporate Finance Address: 40 Portland Place, London W1B 1NB Telephone: 020 7908 6000 Email: [email protected] Web Address: www.cavendish.com Unrivalled Specialist Expertise F Oct18154 industry specialists, taking a global view and leveraging our deep local connections. The relationships across the alliance underpin their commitment to continuous investment in innovation, leadership and the incorporation of best practices from across all of their business activities. Enabling the firm to achieve such success, in such a challenging market wrestling with the challenges of Brexit, the team at Cavendish have developed an unrivalled knowledge of potential buyer pools and established teams of sector specialists, who are recognised authorities in their areas offering business owners expert advice on the best preparation, strategy and likely buyers to ensure a successful sale. Utilising their international network of M&A advisors, the firm have continued to source overseas buyers, who typically pay a premium for UK businesses – about half of the companies which they sold last year were to international buyers. There are almost no other firms that operate in the corporate finance arena that have the sole purpose of selling businesses; most represent buyers as well and this invariably begs the question by astute owners of business, are our advisors completely aligned with them? For nearly 30 years, Cavendish’s answer has been unequivocally “ yes ”. Looking ahead to what the future holds, the team at Cavendish hope to build upon their success following their recent win in Acquisition Intl’s AI - 2018 Year in Review, where they were righteously awarded the accolade Mid-Market M&A Advisory Firm of the Year - 2018. “Cavendish’s entrenched expertise in a vast range of subsectors is matched by unrivalled contacts with leading UK and multinationals.”