Ben is a Partner at Park Place Corporate Finance in Leeds specialising in lead advisory work for mid-market private companies, shareholders and management teams.
He advises clients on a wide range of transactions covering a broad spectrum of sectors and involving companies valued between £2 million and £800 million. He is particularly active on transactions that provide exits or value realisations for business founders and owner managers. He has also advised management teams on a series of high value private equity-backed management buy-outs (both primary and secondary).
His experience also includes cross border M&A including the £60m sale of UK-based turbo specialist Melett to US-based Wabtec Corporation and the sale of UK-based EMR-for-ophthalmology business Medisoft to German aquirer Heidelberg Engineering.
Ben’s specialties are:
Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
Fundraising and equity release
Management buy outs, buy ins and private equity
Corporate strategy
Reorganisation and recovery
Client testimonials:
Park Place advised Acumen Waste Management on structuring, funding and delivering a management buy-out.
Kris Sutton Finance Director of Acumen Waste Management, said: “Park Place ensured that our buy-out was structured in a way that worked for the retiring, ongoing and new shareholders alike. They provided great support and advice along the way and it was a pleasure working with Ben and Tom. We look forward to continuing the relationship with Park Place and I am sure we will work with them again in the future.”
Park Place advised on the £30m management buy-out of VJ Technology backed by Primary Capital
Mark Tomlin, CEO of VJ Technology, commented “Ben and his team at PPCF provided invaluable advice to us throughout the process. We got them involved at an early stage which ensured that we clearly understood which elements of the deal were going to be most important to us. PPCF negotiated with the private equity houses on our behalf to deliver an attractive equity package.”
