28 | Acquisition International, Issue 9 2024 Asset Ingenuity Initially founded in the early 1990s as an asset valuation and auction house, SIA Group has spent more than three decades growing and evolving, moving from a small office in Brighton to a headquarters overlooked by the remarkable St Paul’s Cathedral. With eight regional offices spread across the country, SIA Group is today seen as one of the UK’s premier asset valuation and auction firms, something reflected in the title of Leading Asset Valuation & Auction Specialist Firm of the Year 2024 - UK that we have gladly bestowed upon it. Contact: Paul Craig Company: SIA Group Web Address: https://www.sia-group.co.uk/ At the heart of SIA Group is a wealth of detailed experience and expertise spanning valuations and disposals for the likes of assetbased lending, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds, business restructuring/ recovery, and more general financial reporting purposes. Across this suite of services, the team at SIA Group afford every client holistic, independent, and intelligent valuations as well as detailed advice concerning both their industrial and commercial assets across a range of diverse sectors and industries. Diving deeper into SIA Group’s aforementioned team, this multi-award-winning group is comprised of a series of RICS-qualified surveyors and consummate financial services professionals dotted across the company’s eight offices. This team play host to individuals with detailed knowledge spanning the likes of accounts receivable due diligence, inventory appraisals and exit strategies, machinery and equipment appraisals, intellectual property valuations and disposals, aviation and marine, as well as asset sales and online auctions, among others. Throughout these areas of expertise, the company’s focus remains the same, with collaborating to deliver success on corporate turnarounds underpinning this entire operation. SIA Group does this for a number of clients, and from asset-based lenders and banks to financial institutions, restructuring/ turnaround professionals, financial sponsors, and a number of corporate and public bodies in the field of valuating and disposing both tangible and intangible assets, the company partners with like-minded leaders in this space. Leveraging the traits of innovative, incisive, and always informed, SIA Group’s strategic goals and objectives are all based around its overarching aspiration to be renowned across industry for the distinctive nature of its service as well as its passionate, integral, and committed client approach. From undertaking the UK’s first aviation auction to remaining at the forefront of pioneering solutions to this day, the firm strikes the balance between experience and a desire to implement lasting industry change incredibly effectively. Managing Director Paul Craig is at the helm of this operation, and it is largely thanks to this seasoned industry veteran that SIA Group today has an excellent company philosophy running through its veins. The three-fold ethos that it employs involves mobilising, maximising, and monetising, with staff here being the first to arrive and the last to leave a site, possessing the ingenuity required to seize every opportunity, and, most importantly, turning assets into liquidity for clients. Only through this combination can SIA Group fortify its position as a true leader in every aspect of asset valuation, advisory, and auction. Despite its triumphs over the past few years, SIA Group remains committed to not becoming the sort of business that seeks to offer all things to all people and ultimately stretches itself too thin in the process. Rather, Paul and his team are redefining what it means to build defined and valued-added relationships that are grounded in effectively serving the needs of the markets in which they can effectively compete on an international scale. This is demonstrated through the firm’s clients across Europe, North America, and in South Africa. Such sustained international growth has resulted in SIA Group having recently embarked on a three-year strategy plan to build a foundation from which to grow and conquer in both new and existing markets. Spanning everything from reach and recruitment to new products and fresh perspectives, it would be fair to say that the firm is keeping one eye on the future as it continues on its path of redefining the industry’s gold standard. Every year sees the company build on the previous year’s successes, and 2024 so far has been no different. With dozens of industry awards to its name, many of which span wins over consecutive years, SIA Group is an outstanding firm that is both outthinking and out delivering the competition. The unique and single source asset solution that this firm affords clients sees them receive the best advice for managing their assets, with the endless possibilities unlocked as a result being just one of the benefits of partnering with SIA Group, the Leading Asset Valuation & Auction Specialist Firm of the Year 2024 – UK.
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