The Corporate Finance Network

The latest issue of our newsletter, “Network Opportunities”, has been published and includes more successful deal completions, as well as businesses for sale and wanted around our network. Deals featured this month include those advised by these member firms: Jacobs Allen Chartered Accountants Albert Goodman LEES Accountants GreenStones Limited Bevan Buckland LLP Nicholsons Chartered Accountants Congratulations to all! Do take a look to see if there are any matches for your clients in the newsletter, link below.

Weekly stand-up call with the Research Squad this morning - this was their 'hiya' to our conference delegates for Thursday. Sorry guys you can't make it to #Southampton this time - you will be at the next one though in March! Bradley Riley Caitlin Bendall Jimmy Wishart Luke Shillito

We are looking forward to welcoming a range of speakers to our National Conference next week, including Alex O'Leary of JMW Solicitors LLP who is a corprate lawyer and also a specialist adviser to search funds. Alex will be presenting to an audience of accountants and corporate financiers, who specialise in advising owner managed businesses on exit planning, marketing their businesses for sale and buy-side transactions for growth. Kirsty McGregor, Chairman and Founder of The CFN, commented “I am delighted to be welcoming Alex and JMW to speak to our member firms. With so much activity going on at present, it will be useful to hear the latest issues on transactions from a legal perspective, and from someone as experienced as Alex.” If you would like to hear about businesses which The CFN is marketing for sale, you can view their latest newsletter and subscribe for future issues, by following the links below. Latest newsletter https://lnkd.in/eurUAb7G Subscribe here https://lnkd.in/eBBkiwrT

Attending Accountex with Brad Riley Caitlin Bendall Luke Shillito Kirsty McGregor Upskilling & motivating!

Please find a link below to the first issue of Network Opportunities, in this incredibly busy Autumn/Winter season. Congratulations to all the clients of our member firms who have completed deals over the summer. This month we have featured six from: Jacobs Allen Chartered Accountants McBrides Chartered Accountants Albert Goodman Dains (Scotland) | Previously William Duncan Accountants LEES Accountants Dyke Yaxley Chartered Accountants If you work as a #corporatefinance adviser, please do take a look at our Businesses for Sale listings to see if we can find a match for one of your clients. There is a link in the comments if you would like to subscribe for future issues, straight into your inbox. https://lnkd.in/eurUAb7G

Our Founder and Chairman Kirsty McGregor will be one of the experts speaking at "September Fest" this week on a topic which is on all advisers' minds.

Over the past few weeks we have shared a number of case studies which are part of a White Paper this month, written by the founders of The CFN and MarktoMarket. It's time for our final case study, but it's a good one! Dyke Yaxley Chartered Accountants always had a reputation for providing corporate finance advice, ahead of their time, with some very commercial partners and directors over the years. Mark Bramall took on the mantle for corporate finance as a young newly appointed manager (several years ago now!) and since then he has grown his portfolio and fees so much that he now has 3 working full time in the corporate finance and advisory team. This includes the fantastic Sarah Hartshorn, who we are grateful has been willing to be profiled as part of this series. If you have enjoyed reading this case studies, please watch out for the White Paper coming soon. And do reach out if you would like to be part of this fantastic network of accountancy firms who are all providing an amazing breadth of expert advice to their OMB clients.

Coming soon! A White Paper written by the founders of The CFN and MarktoMarket about how to grow corporate finance in accountancy firms. As part of this publication, several member firms of The CFN have been profiled as case studies. MDH - Accountancy & Business Growth Specialists is a true success story. Michael Hemme is a sole practitioner who is growing his firm at a rate of knots! Corporate finance fees are playing a huge part in that, despite him only delivering corporate finance services for the past 2 years. Read more about how he is achieving this.

The programme and activities for the 33rd National Conference of The Corporate Finance Network has been published. This time at Utilita Bowl and Hilton Southampton - Utilita Bowl, we are delighted to hold our first conference in the county of Hampshire, where we have several local member firms with offices Shaw Gibbs, LEES Accountants & Johnston Wood Roach. This unique day for OMB corporate financiers, includes a programme which brings together the usual mix of technical training, business development ideas and practical tools to take back to the office. We know that a day away from the office is a large investment, but we are proud that our firms tell us the content always delivers plenty of inspiration and new ideas for them, so that they return to the office re-invigorated and motivated. With a busy season expected in corporate finance this Autumn & into 2025, this programme should deliver once again! If you would like more information, contact Kirsty McGregor. Thanks to Kroll and Capitalise for their ongoing support, as well as all the speakers for presenting and sharing their expertise.

Here's another case study from one of our member firms, which will form part of a collaborative White Paper between MarktoMarket and The CFN, to be published in September. So watch this space! In the meantime, do enjoy reading about Albert Goodman who have built a fantastic corporate finance team over the past few years under the leadership of Neil Hutchings.