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Solent: Deals Awards big winners are HSBC, Meridian, BDO and Blake Morgan

16 June 2017
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The first-ever awarding of the Young Dealmaker of the Year title brought a 2017 Solent Deals Awards surprise of its own with two winners – Philip Mettam of Meridian Corporate Finance and Gemma Wild of HSBC.

 The Deals Awards judging panel decided the quality of emerging talent in this new under-35s category of ‘rising stars’ deserved joint winners – “Two very impressive dealmakers among a strong entry, all highly talented and impossibly young and vibrant.”

The result on this award’s debut was not the only pleasant double winning surprise of this gala evening staged at Southampton’s Hilton at The Ageas Bowl – the south coast’s major corporate finance event of the year.

Mettam and Wild both doubled up with colleagues in helping to win performance recognition awards for their companies for assisting dealmaking within the Solent region’s business community – with Meridian winning Corporate Finance Team of the Year, and HSBC Bank of the Year.

Law firm Blake Morgan, also took home two Solent Deals Awards.  First, Steve Cole, a banking and finance partner in Blake Morgan’s Southampton office, was honoured with the much -prized Lawyer of the Year title. Then Blake Morgan was presented with the overall Law Firm of the Year award.

This year’s Solent Deals Awards attracted more than 520 nominations for the 12 award categories, and a 250-guest ‘black-tie’ gala dinner attendance.

The event was staged by The Business Magazine and sponsored by Taylor Made Computer Solutions, PwC, Moore Blatch, Meridian Corporate Finance, IGF, HSBC, CMA Recruitment, Clarke Willmott, and Blake Morgan.

Brain Tumour Research, the event’s chosen charity, was boosted by donations totalling £1,502.50 and a table collection also gathered £1,669 from generous corporate finance community representatives attending to help London’s Grenfell Tower fire tragedy survivors.

Private Equity Firm of the Year – sponsored by CMA Recruitment Group
Winner: LDC

Other finalists: Altitude Partners, Meridian Growth Capital

Lawyer of the Year – sponsored by Meridian Corporate Finance
Winner: Steve Cole of Blake Morgan

Other finalists: Peter Jeffery of Moore Blatch, Stephen Porter of Shoosmiths 

Management Team of the Year – sponsored by PwC
Winner:
CT Automotive/ChinaTool

Other finalists: CEGA Group, Hendy Group, Stewart Signs

Due Diligence Team of the Year – sponsored by Clarke Willmott

Winner:  RSM

Other finalists: PwC, Mazars, KPMG

Corporate Finance Team of the Year – sponsored by HSBC

Winner: Meridian Corporate Finance

Other finalists: BDO, Spectrum Corporate Finance

Law Firm of the Year – sponsored by Taylor Made Computer Solutions

Winner: Blake Morgan

Other finalists: Shoosmiths, Trethowans

Corporate Finance Adviser of the Year – sponsored by Moore Blatch

Winner: Helen O’Kane of BDO

Other finalists: Darren Miller of Spectrum Corporate Finance, Stewart Lambert of James Cowper Kreston, Darren Thompson of Meridian Corporate Finance, Michael Barcia of Meridian Corporate Finance

Bank of the Year – sponsored by Blake Morgan

Winner: HSBC

Other finalists: Lloyds Banking Group, RBS NatWest

Young Dealmaker of the Year – sponsored by The Business Magazine

Joint Winners: Philip Mettam of Meridian Corporate Finance, Gemma Wild of HSBC

Other finalists: Oliver Kelly of Pitmans Law, Lisa Sigalet of Shoosmiths, Mat Wilson of Blake Morgan

Small Deal of the Year (under £10m) – sponsored by Independent Growth Finance (IGF)

Winner: Stewart Signs MBO

Other finalists: AndersElite MBO; Deacons Boatyard sale to Dean & Reddyhoff; Opus Telecom sale to NIX Communications; ProcessFlows sale to Konica Minolta

Mid-Range Deal of the Year (£10m-£50m) – sponsored by IGF

Winner: ChinaTool/CT Automotive MBO

Other finalists: Dyer & Butler sale to First Resolve; Onecom acquisition of Evolve; Raymond Brown Minerals sale to Elysian; Wellian Investments acquisition and IPO on AIM

Large Deal of the Year (over £50m) – sponsored by CMA Recruitment Group
Winner: Hendy acquisition of Lifestyle Motor Group

Other finalists: University of Southampton bond issue;  Utility Funding sale to Foresight Metering; Trustmarque Solutions sale to Capita

 


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