London, England, United Kingdom
Mergers and Acquisitions Partner within EY's Strategy and Transactions practice focused on the Business and Tech sectors with a specialism in education, training, edtech and knowledge solutions.
• M&A Manager working on both sell and buy side engagements, together with broader strategic advisory, market sounding, exit options and funding structuring • Managed and worked on in excess of 10 transactions across a broad range of sectors • Sector focus includes business and support services, dentistry, and health, fitness and leisure
• Managed KPMG's Business Services sector team • Focus on key account relationships and go to market strategy • Sub-sectors include FM, BPO, consulting services and human capital • Managing relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Built KPMG's Education and Training M&A coverage activities - Focus on EdTech - Significant experience across a range of transactions - buy and sell side in the sector, touching a high proportion of UK transactions over the course of the past 18 months - Strong interaction with international buyers - both strategic and financial - looking to expand into the UK
• Involved in the clearance of a 2 billion euro trade backlog. Successfully cleared personal portfolio of legacy fixed income trades • Found solutions to trade discrepancies, interacting with counterparties, fund managers and agent banks to ensure quick resolution of issues • Prepared settled trades for auditing review, validating documents and ensuring their inclusion in both physical and hard drive records • Business process initiative to improve the overall operational process and ensure greater fluidity and efficiency • Involved in the design of a new reporting and trade tracking system, accumulating suggestions relating to its function and drawing up a document outlining its requirements