How can our Manchester office help you?

Corporate finance and due diligence:

Jackson Stephen Corporate Finance provides an all-encompassing service, coordinating every aspect of a deal from origination through to execution, recognising clients’ personal objectives and taxation planning: Strategic business advice Mergers, Acquisitions, Management Buy Outs and Buy in Buy outs Fund raising; including development capital, business start ups and rescue finance Business disposals and pre-sale grooming Specialist services; including advice regarding personal indemnity insurance, intellectual property and human resource issues Transaction tax, structuring a deal in order to minimise tax liabilities Post-deal integration Jackson Stephen Due Diligence act for corporate acquirers, vendors, private equity and bank funders. We specialise in financial investigations and valuations of companies and businesses in all sectors: Pre-acquisition and pre-lending investigations for trade buyers and financial investors Post-acquisition investigations to assist in the integration of the newly acquired business Vendor due diligence, pre-disposal due diligence for vendors and potential acquirers Valuations of companies and businesses for sale, purchase or fund raising

Our corporate finance team:

Jeff Barber Corporate Finance Partner Jeff started his career at Spicer and Pegler where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and was promoted to an audit senior manager before moving into Corporate Finance. He spent nearly four years working as a financial director before joining Rennie Evans in 1995 as Corporate Finance Partner. Jeff joined Jackson Stephen bringing his 20 years of wide ranging experience in all aspects of Corporate Finance, dealing with businesses from owner-managed to large multi-national companies. Jeff's main hobbies are his family and an almost religious devotion to Manchester United. Howard Middleton Director of Corporate Finance   Emma Hargreaves Senior Manager   Martin Kennedy Senior Manager

Other Branches:

The following scenario helps to illustrate our approach:

A new client wanted to raise around £1 million for a start-up business to exploit a technical idea he had developed. The new venture was risky but the returns, if the concept took off, would be phenomenal.

Emma Hargreaves, corporate finance senior manager explains: “the client had approached venture capitalists and banks but because of the risk, small value and lack of security involved no one would provide funding.”

“Our solution to this type of funding problem is to use our business angel network. This is a group of high net worth individuals who invest relatively small amounts of funding into different businesses which provide a more risky, but higher return on investment, usually taking advantage of tax benefits. For this particular client we introduced 4 silent investors who between them funded the entire project with additional help from a small firms loan guarantee.

“5 years later the investors were fortunate to be able to sell their stake to our client for a high multiple of their original investment. Our client now owns 100% of the equity of a thriving business which we are grooming for an ultimate sale and early retirement for our client. The business angels are currently re-investing and enjoying the proceeds of the transaction.”