MAIL MANAGER - Key Persons
Alistair joined the finnCap Group, originally as a Partner of Cavendish, in August 2016 to build the firm's Debt Advisory practice. Alistair was previously a Director in EY's Capital and Debt Advisory business where he led a number of debt advisory transactions including refinancing's, buy-side financing, refinancing and recapitalisations. Prior to joining EY, Alistair spent 11 years' at the Royal Bank of Scotland in various transactional roles within its UK Corporate Banking division. Alistair led over 40 transactions (incorporating over £6bn of debt financing) across a number of different sectors and encapsulating a range of different financing scenarios including M&A, recapitalisations, IPO funding, refinancing and development funding.
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- Head of Technology, Research
Andrew has been a tech and telco analyst for over 20 years Prior to finnCap he was previously with ING Barings Charterhouse and KBC Peel Hunt. On multiple occasions Andrew has been ranked Extel Starmine top 10 UK stock picker across all sectors; no. 1 UK and no. 1 Pan European Telecoms services stock picker; and no. 1 UK and no. 1 European Telecoms Services Earnings Estimates. Andrew is Extel no.3 rated for Tech as voted by corporate clients and leads the Extel no.1 rated finnCap Tech Team.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Director
Carl joined finnCap in June 2015 and has over 14 years' of growth company strategic and corporate finance advisory experience on both the Main Market and AIM. His experience covers a wide range of sectors with a particular focus on the consumer/ retail and technology sectors. Carl's past and present clients include First Derivatives, The Character Group, PROACTIS Holdings, Best of the Best, HR Owen and The Barkby Group plc. Prior to joining finnCap Carl worked at Charles Stanley Securities and Linklaters.
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- Co - Head, Corporate Finance
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- Director, FinnCap Analytics
Daniel began his career in the City in 2014 after graduating from Sheffield, where he studied Philosophy and Economics. His first role was as a market maker at Peel Hunt, where he spent 4 years before transitioning to Sales Trading. From Peel Hunt Daniel moved to Olivetree where he developed a focus on ECM and Special Situations. He has been at finnCap since early 2021, where he works in the Analytics team, servicing hedge fund and institutional clients.
Job Titles:
- Head of FinnCap Analytics
David began his career in 2001 after graduating from the London School of Economics. He joined Merrill Lynch where he worked for over 10 years as a Pan European Equity Sales Trader developing a close relationship with the global hedge fund and institutional client base. From Merrill Lynch, David moved to the Special Situations broker Olivetreee Financial where he spent the following 8 years developing an expertise in ECM transactions and wider Special Situations. He joined finnCap in early 2021, where he heads the Analytics team, advising hedge fund and institutional clients in the trading of global equities.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Director
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Director
Geoff is a founding shareholder of finnCap. He qualified with KPMG and has previously worked in private equity and spent seven years at Evolution Securities (formerly Beeson Gregory). Geoff has over 20 years' experience in growth companies, having advised on all aspects from IPO, M&A and secondary funding's.
Graham joined finnCap Group's Debt Advisory team in June 2019 to expand the team following the merger of finnCap and Cavendish. Prior to joining finnCap Group Graham spent 30 years at Natwest where he worked in a variety of roles including Large Corporate Relationship Management, Mid-Market Structured Finance, SME Origination and Client Remediation. Graham has led numerous financings for his clients over recent years. This has included acquisition financing for a number of FTSE250 businesses, a number of mid-market IPOs and new milestone debt facilities for growing SMEs. Graham holds Diplomas in both Financial Services Management and Chartered Banker Lending Skills.
Henrik joined finnCap in 2009 after qualifying as a chartered accountant specialising on AIM IPOs. He has extensive experience of all aspects of corporate advisory and broking work, having acted on several IPOs and secondary fundraisings, including PE exits and founder sell-downs. He leads finnCap's market-leading team focussed on public takeovers, shareholder activism and other specialist advisory situations, acting on both sides of such corporate activity. He spent two years at the Takeover Panel on a rare secondment where he was involved in over 200 takeover situations.
Job Titles:
- Head of Consumer, FinnCap Group
Henry is the Head of Consumer, finnCap Group, and he is also Head of the Consumer Team at finnCap Cavendish. Henry has over 20 years corporate finance advisory experience, where he has focused on mid-market companies and investors. He has advised clients on a wide range of corporate finance transactions including private and public company disposals and acquisitions. Prior to joining the finnCap Group, Henry was head of UK M&A at Duff & Phelps and before that, he was Head of the Leisure & Retail team at Close Brothers Corporate Finance (which became DC Advisory). Henry is a graduate of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and he qualified as a solicitor with Eversheds in 1999.
Job Titles:
- Co - Head of Private Growth Capital
Jamie joined Cavendish in November 2020 to head up the firms Alternative Capital unit. Jamie focuses on managing and developing relationships with the UK family office and growth capital community whilst also driving the firms private growth capital offering to entrepreneurs. He joins from Rothschild & Co where he advised on a number of fundraising & M&A mandates in the public markets before moving to more recently focus on specific coverage of venture & growth capital funds and family offices in the private markets. He holds a degree in Business Studies & finance from Bournemouth University.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner, FinnCap Cavendish
John has 19 years of corporate finance experience and an outstanding deal completion track record within the technology and tech enabled business services sectors. He has been involved in advising clients across a variety of segments including internet and media, application software, SaaS, infrastructure software, online gaming, IT security, storage and tech-enabled services. John graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of London in 2000. He started his career within the technology M&A division of DC Advisory (formerly Close Brothers) and subsequently Strata Technology Partners before moving to Cavendish in 2008. He has successfully completed over 50 corporate finance transactions mostly valued between £15m and £100m. Successful assignments include M&A (Sell-side/Buy-side), LBO, Public Takeovers, Public-to-Private and Fundraising transactions.
Job Titles:
- Director, Investment Companies
Johnny joined finnCap in 2016 bringing 18 years' worth of experience from Edmond de Rothschild Securities, where he headed the Investment Companies team and sat on the Board. He is responsible for the secondary market trading of Investment Companies at finnCap. Johnny previously worked with BZW (Barclays), Crosby (now Soc Gen Securities) and Singer & Friedlander.
Job Titles:
- Co - Head, Corporate Finance
Jonny has almost 20 years of small and mid-cap broking experience specialising in technology and financials. He has a broad range of experience of managing transactions including IPOs, fundraises and PLC takeovers. Subsectors he has a particular specialism in include software, telcos, fintech, adtech and cyber security. Jonny previously worked at Macquarie, Fox-Pitt Kelton and N+1 Singers and has an MBA.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Director
Julian has been in corporate broking for 25 years and joined finnCap in July 2013 after 17 years with Peel Hunt. He has advised on a wide range of IPOs, secondary fundraisings and M&A transactions in the small and mid cap space both on AIM and Main Market.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Debt Advisory
- FinnCap Group As an Associate
Krishan joined the finnCap Group as an Associate in the in June 2019 to support Alistair and Graham in the expansion of the Debt Advisory team. Krishan began his career at EY where he spent almost three years in its Capital and Debt Advisory team, working across its Debt, Hedging and Ratings Advisory teams.. Subsequent to this Krishan joined the Livingstone Partners Debt Advisory team where he spent a further two years. Krishan has successfully completed a number of debt advisory transactions including refinancings, acquisition financings, growth financings and recapitalisations. Krishan graduated from Imperial College London in 2014 with a MEng (First Class Hons) in Civil Engineering and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2017.
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- Director and Head of Private Equity Sponsor Coverage
Leigh joined the finnCap Group in 2019 to lead Private Equity sponsor coverage, focused on managing and developing relationships within the UK mid-market private equity community. Leigh previously spent five years with mid-market accounting firm RSM, where he was instrumental in building the private equity coverage team in the UK. He spent much of his time managing reciprocity with key private equity funds and originating deal flow for the mergers and acquisition team. Prior to his corporate finance career Leigh spent seven years working as a corporate head-hunter across London and the Middle East focused on the accounting and advisory sectors.
Lorne has over two decades of experience in sell-side research covering technology stocks. He is known and respected by companies and investors in the technology sector of the London market. Lorne is Extel-rated and ranked #1 analyst across all market sectors on Research Tree (and rated #2 in 2017 and 2016).
Mark joined finnCap in 2013 to lead the Life Science research capability, growing the franchise to become the leading advisor to Life Science companies on AIM. He has over 25 years' experience as a Life Science analyst across small, mid and large cap companies where he has been involved in numerous IPOs and capital raisings. Prior to finnCap Mark was at Dresdner Kleinwort, Hoare Govett (ABN Amro), Satellite Asset Management and Hardman & Co. He has a PhD in Geochemistry and an MBA from Cass Business School.
Job Titles:
- Director, Investment Companies
Mark joined finnCap in 2017 and heads up finnCap's Investment Companies team, having previously headed Investment Companies Sales at UBS and IPO'd numerous funds. Mark has over 25 years' experience mostly at Credit and UBS, he previously worked as an equity analyst and then in equity sales. He covered European Utilities, Insurance, Industrials, Distributors and Investment Companies, often achieving very high or top Extel rankings. Mark successfully completed numerous fund raisings, including the IPOs of several European companies and investment funds, working with many of the world's largest financial institutions, hedge funds, retail wealth managers and global Sovereign Wealth Funds.
Job Titles:
- Director in the Corporate Finance Team at FinnCap
- Head of Consumer, FinnCap Capital Markets
Matt is a Director in the Corporate Finance team at finnCap, and heads the Consumer Sector team. Matt has over 19 years' advisory experience advising small and mid-cap companies on the full range of transactions, including IPO's, rights issues, placing's, takeovers and disposals on the Main Market and AIM. He previously worked at Collins Stewart, KBC Peel Hunt and Ernst & Young. Matt's current and previous consumer sector clients include PPHE Hotel Group, Photo-Me, Revolution Bars, Shoe Zone, Eve Sleep, Topps Tiles, Victoria, ScS, Carpetright, Holidaybreak, Capital Pub Company, Carluccio's, Premium Bars & Restaurants and Brasserie Blanc
Michael joined finnCap's leading AIM Tech research team in May 2019. He previously spent 6 years in equity research at UBS, where he was originally part of the top-ranked UBS European Telecoms research team, before moving to cover small-mid cap companies in 2018. Michael studied Economics and Management at the University of Oxford and received a First Class Honours degree in 2012. He is a CFA charterholder.
Job Titles:
- Director, Investment Companies
Monica has over 15 years' fund research experience both on the buy-side and sell-side, spanning a wide range of asset classes, both in closed-end and open-end format, including being a no.1 rated Alternatives Fund Analyst in the Extel surveys. Her previous experience includes being the Head of Investment Companies Research at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and Senior Funds Analyst at Killik & Co Stockbrokers. She is a CFA charterholder and a member of the AIC Statistics Committee.
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- Equity Capital Markets Director
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- CEO
- Founder
- FinnCap Group CEO
finnCap Group CEO, Sam Smith established the firm in 2007, after orchestrating the partial buyout of the corporate finance and broking business of JM Finn & Co Limited, a private client stockbroker.
Job Titles:
- Head of Equity Capital Markets
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- Corporate Finance
- Director
Job Titles:
- Co - Head of Private Growth Capital