Simon Mills

Corporate Finance Partner

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

About

Corporate Finance Partner within the Corporate Finance team at Langtons, a leading independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers based in the North-West. Specialise in advising on acquisitions, disposals, exit strategies, fundraisings, MBO’s, MBI’s and financial due diligence to owner managed-business and private-equity related transaction in the sub-£20m sector. Particular expertise in financial modelling. If you or a connection are considering how to raise finance for your business, or buying another business, or seeking an acquirer for your own business, amongst other things, I may be able to help. Please do not hesitate to contact me if there are any matters you would like to discuss.

Experience

  • Corporate Finance Partner at Langtons
    May 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 3 mos

    Langtons Corporate Finance offers a full range of corporate finance services, including advice on acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, MBOs, MBIs and financial due diligence. We specialise in providing advice and services to family and owner-managed businesses, in addition to providing services to a number of financial institutions. A selection of recent transactions we have completed for clients can be found on the website www.langtonsliverpool.com, under "Corporate Finance" (with case studies), and a small sample of these are summarised below: - £4m sale of Direct Energy Purchasing Limited to Inspired Energy plc - £6m MBO of Fishawack Communications Limited, followed by the acquisitions of Ascendant Communications Inc, Alpha-Plus Medical Communications Limited and Phocus Holding GmbH - Perspective - £11m funding package including acquisition of Perspective Financial Management and fund manager Cambridge Investments - Sale of Avanti Environmental to SRCL Limited (part of Stericycle Inc) - MSoft E-Solutions Limited - acquisition of the trade and assets of the community equipment store division of Allocate Software plc - £9m sale of Saturn Energy Limited to Spice plc - MBO of GBM Digital Technologies Limited - Sale of Parkfresh plc to Fresh Direct UK Limited - £17m MBO of the Mondi Packaging Speciality Division If you would like to discuss how Langtons could help you or a contact, please do not hesitate to contact me for a no-obligation discussion.

  • Assistant Audit Manager at KPMG
    May 2005 - May 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    In addition to my time spent working within the consumer markets audit department, I worked on a number of commercial and corporate projects over an 18 month period. This role included assignments in financial due diligence, corporate recovery and insolvency; forensic accounting and financial modelling. I also spent 3 months on a secondment within Bank of America.

  • Trainee Accountant at Hurst & Company LLP
    Sep 2001 - May 2005 · 3 yrs 9 mos