Navigating Mid-Market M&A in a Post-Covid Environment

Prior to joining GTS In 2014, Chris worked in corporate finance for both Grant Thornton and Haines Watts. It was in this capacity that he first worked with GTS, having advised on an MBO in 2008. Chris worked as a retained adviser to the Board until joining as Group Finance Director  in 2014. Following another buy-out in 2015, he became one of three owner / managers and subsequently became Group Managing Director in 2018. Following a sustained period of growth for the business, Chris led the transaction which ultimately saw Growth Capital Partners acquire a significant minority stake in the Group.

Ravi joined GCP in January 2014 and has been involved in the investments in Advanced Insulation, Cooke Optics, FLYdocs, First Mile, JKR and GTS Flexible Materials.

Ravi previously worked at Clearwater Corporate Finance where he advised a number of private businesses on a range of transactions including management buyouts, business sales and equity restructuring advisory work. Prior to this Ravi qualified as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young where he was part of the private equity team.

Mike has spent the last fifteen years advising mid-market investors and the companies they back on the management, organisation and strategy underpinnings of growth. Prior to that, he spent years working on privatisation with Deloitte, banking with EBRD and investing with Creditanstalt. Over the last decade he has worked on about 200 transactions – as well another 200+ post-deal projects – including some during the current Covid-19 period. More details on all of that can be found at www.catalysis-advisory.com

Gemma acts on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions but has specialised in private equity transactions for the last nine years.

She has advised a number of private equity clients including Bridgepoint, Bridgepoint Development Capital, ICG, Phoenix Private Equity, Livingbridge, Langholm, Inflexion, ECI, Kester Capital and Silverfleet on executing their investments, managing their portfolio companies during the life of their investments and helping them to deliver successful exits.

Gemma also works with management teams supporting them on their equity arrangements on new investments, renegotiations of those equity arrangements, assisting them with bolt-on acquisitions and group re-organisations and generally supporting them throughout the life of their business.

Natalie is a Director in the Corporate Finance team at RSM specialising in financial due diligence in the UK mid-market. Natalie has significant experience in buy side and sell side transactions for corporate and private equity clients across multiple sectors including professional practices, recruitment and financial services and has a particular focus on IT and technology, particularly IT managed services and unified comms.