Accountancy Firm of the Year
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Ansarada is an online virtual data room specialist providing simple-to-use, secure virtual data room facilities protected by the highest levels of security. An Ansarada data room is customisable and powered by sophisticated technology that accelerates online collaboration between multiple users, enabling them to access sensitive information securely via an internet browser from anywhere in the world.
 
Alternative Finance Provider of the Year
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Business XL is written by leaders for leaders. The magazine offers a wealth of information and knowledge, delivered by people who have started and grown their own business.
 
Small Deal of the Year (deal value: £2.5 million to £50 million)
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EMC is the South East's leading independent provider of corporate finance, interim management and operational support to small and medium sized businesses.
Formed in 1989, EMC pioneered the concept of the 'mobile boardroom' - a multi-disciplined taskforce capable of providing top-level support and advice to businesses on a short or long-term basis. All EMC's consultants are senior professionals with extensive hands-on experience of running both large and small businesses. They work across the main business disciplines - finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing and IT - to provide interim management (particularly finance directors), strategic planning, sales training, exporting, e-commerce and general business advice to businesses of all sizes and across all sectors. EMC has also helped scores of owners/directors plan and achieve successful business sales, acquisitions and mergers as well as raise capital, fund debts or restructure their finances.
For more information, visit the website at www.emcltd.co.uk, email contact@emcltd.co.uk or call 01323 410144.
 
Finance Specialist of the Year
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GrowthBusiness.co.uk is the leading website for ambitious SMEs, professional advisers and the venture capital community. The site features a raft of information on specific growth issues, a comprehensive adviser directory, recent deals, jobs board and much more to help ambitious CEOs grow their business fast.
 
Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year
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A market leader in all types of asset based lending, covering both domestic and multinational sectors, with a reputation for innovation and service.
The ideal partner  - open and hungry for business - flexible in approach - able to tailor packages to your needs.
 
Dealmaker of the Year
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M&A Magazine is the leading mid-market monthly corporate finance publication in the UK and presents MandAdeals.co.uk. The magazine covers the wider issues affecting the corporate finance deal sector, so each month you can read about the deal-makers behind the deals, how to fund a complex transaction and which companies are on the lookout for their next acquisitions.
The magazine also takes a regular peek at the international scene, analysing cross-border trends in mergers.
 
Due Diligence Specialist of the Year
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Millnet is the UK’s leading provider of electronic and paper document production and review for the financial and legal sectors. The range of services offered extends from digital print and distribution, scanning and e-bibles to leading-edge solutions for virtual data rooms and electronic document review.
Millnet has a demonstrable track record of producing essential time-critical documents in circumstances that are generally very demanding. In the financial markets, Millnet is the financial document specialist of choice, having produced the prospectus, offer and other shareholder documentation for 200 transactions in the past year.
Further details, including case studies, can be found at www.millnet.co.uk.
 
Law Firm of the Year
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PLUS is a new stock exchange for a new era, offering a quotation and listing destination for growth companies of all sizes. Some 220 companies are currently listed on PLUS with a combined market capitalisation of around £2.3 billion. PLUS has seen steady growth and continues to outperform other markets, finishing 2008 with positive numbers. Already, PLUS has seen eight new admissions since the beginning of 2009 – continuing this momentum.
Companies are supported by a team of market professionals at PLUS, dedicated to helping management concentrate on running their business and keeping compliance costs to a minimum.
 
Large Deal of the Year (deal value: £50 million to £500 million)
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Simcocks Trust has a dedicated Corporate Team with personnel from legal, accountancy, company secretarial and compliance backgrounds and currently provides ongoing services to a number of AIM and Official List companies spanning a wide range of sectors. This experience enables us to provide the Quality, Expertise and Integrity we believe are essential in providing the levels of service our clients expect. With the added advantage of being affiliated to a highly regarded law firm, Simcocks Advocates Limited, Simcocks Trust is positioned at the forefront of company secretarial services for corporate clients in the Isle of Man
 

Buy-out of the Year
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Walbrook PR is a proactive entrepreneurial financial public relations and investor relations agency. Working specifically with small-cap and AIM-listed companies, as well as growth businesses that are seeking a stock market listing, Walbrook focuses on four key groups within the City: the financial media, sell-side research analysts, private client brokers and smaller institutional fund managers.