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MHA targets £125m funding for London IPO

MHA had confirmed its intention to seek admission to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange, in the coming weeks, with plans to raise up to £125m through a placing of shares. The firm’s directors said the float would provide a “strong platform for the group…

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Gerald Edelman collects three wins at South East Dealmakers awards

Gerald Edelman has announced that its corporate finance team has scooped three awards at the South East Dealmakers awards. After being nominated for nine awards the team took home Deal of the Year (£40m+), Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year and Nick Wallis, partner in the corporate finance team,…

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PKF Smith Cooper promotes dealmaker to corporate finance director

PKF Smith Cooper has promoted Tom Joy to the role of Corporate Finance director, his fourth promotion in a seven-year career at the company.It comes after he played an “instrumental” role in building the firm’s dealmaking reputation in the West Midlands.   After joining the firm in 2017 as a Corporate…

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Cooper Parry partner shortlisted for 2025 Leadership Awards

Cooper Parry’s David Kendrick – head of north and corporate finance partner – has been nominated for the ‘Professional Services Leader’ award at the 2025 Leadership Awards. It follows UHY Hacker Young offloading its Manchester business to Cooper Parry in September 2024 – a deal Kendrick led as both UHY’s…

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UHY Hacker Young Manchester nominated for Insider North West Dealmakers Awards

UHY Hacker Young Manchester has been shortlisted for this year’s Insider North West Dealmakers Awards. The group’s Corporate Finance team has been selected as a finalist for the ‘Mid-Market Corporate Finance Team of the Year’ award. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, 17 October at Manchester Central. It…

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Westcotts supports five new charities in 2024/25

Westcotts has selected five new charities to support and fundraise for in 2024/2025. Every region of the firm’s office network was able to nominate a charity of their choosing. The teams in Central Devon have nominated the Exeter Leukaemia Fund, a charity which provides vital support to patients with blood…

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Lovewell Blake up for Workplace Wellbeing Award

Lovewell Blake has been nominated for the Workplace Wellbeing Award in this year’s Thetford Business Awards.  The news comes as the firm’s wellbeing programme has been “highly recommended”, having also received Gold Accreditation from the Best Employers Easter Region programme in November 2023.  Lovewell Blake, which has a team of…

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ICAS appoints new vice president

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has recently appointed Orkney accountant Karen Scholes as vice president.  Scholes is a senior partner and director at the Kirkwall headquartered Scholes CA, the accountancy practice started by her later father, she was the sole practitioner in the firm until it was…

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Deloitte to replace EY as Investec auditors

Deloitte has been named as the new auditor of Anglo-South African international banking and wealth management group Investec. Investec revealed that following a “comprehensive tender process”, Deloitte has been nominated as its new external auditor for the reporting period ending 31 March 2025, following the conclusion of a competitive tender…

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Ballards LLP to collaborate with Worcester Food Bank

Accountancy firm Ballards LLP will be working with Worcester Food Bank to help wrap gifts in advance of Mother’s Day.  Worcester Food Bank opened in June 2012 to provide people in crisis with emergency three-day food parcels. This year, the food bank will be giving out Mother’s Day presents in…

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