M&A Awards 2011

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2011 Winners & Shortlist

Listed below are the 2011 shortlisted companies and individuals.

Accountancy Firm of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - BDO

Baker Tilly
BDO
Deloitte
Grant Thornton
Mazars
RSM Tenon

Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Regent Partners International

Beanstalk Management
Catalyst Corporate Finance
Clearwater Corporate
GP Bullhound
Livingstone Partners
Regent Partners International

Due Diligence Specialist of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Pragma Consulting

Armstrong Transaction Services
Calash
Crowe Clark Whitehill
Highwire Consulting
Pragma Consulting
Saffery Champness Corporate Finance

Law Firm of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Olswang

DLA Piper
Eversheds
Kerman & Co
Memery Crystal
Nabarro
Olswang
Pinsent Masons

Finance Provider of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Investec

Barclays Private Capital
GE
Inflexion
Investec
Kreos Capital
Leumi ABL
Lloyds Development Capital
Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance

Buy-out of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Access UK

Access UK
Allied Glass
Lloyds Development Capital UK2 Group
Spice
Wagamama
Weldex

IPO of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - SuperGroup advised by Seymour Pierce

Cupid advised by Cenkos Securities
Digital Barriers advised by Investec
EMIS Group advised by Cobbetts
iEnergizer advised by Arden Partners
Instem Life Sciences advised by Brewin Dolphin
Supergroup advised by Seymour Pierce

Dealmaker of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Simon Cook, DFJ Esprit

Alex Chesterman, Zoopla
Andy Currie, Catalyst Corporate Finance
Matthew Riley, Daisy Group
Sean Cooper, Better Capital
Simon Cook, DFJ Esprit

Large Deal of the Year

Sponsored by

Winner - Net-A-Porter’s sale to Richemont

Chrysalis' sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Bertelsmann
Coffee Nation's sale to Whitbread
Maximuscle's sale to GlaxoSmithKline
Morrisons acquisition of Kiddicare
Net-A-Porter's sale to Richemont
Oakley Capital Private Equity's disposal of Host Europe
TLC's sale to Serco
Young & Co's acquisition of Geronimo Inns

Small Deal of the Year

Sponsored by

TweetDeck’s sale to Twitter

Better Capital's acquisition of Connaught Assets
Daisy Group's acquisition of SpiriTel
Ebiquity's acquisition of Xtreme Information Services
Oakley Capital Private Equity's acquisition of Time Out
Phyworks' sale to Maxim Integrated Products
TweetDeck's sale to Twitter

2010 Winners

Accountancy Firm of the Year

Grant Thornton UK

Buy-out of the Year

CeDo

Finance Specialist of the Year

Inflexion Private Equity

Alternative Finance Provider of the Year

Leumi ABL
Bibby Financial Services - highly commended

Large Deal of the Year

ApaTech
Playfish – highly commended

Small Deal of the Year

Tottel Publishing

Law Firm of the Year

Travers Smith

Due Diligence Provider of the Year

Armstrong Transaction Services

Dealmaker of the Year

Matthew Riley - Daisy Group

Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year

GP Bullhound

2009 Winners

Accountancy Firm of the Year

Tenon Group

Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year

ICON Corporate Finance

Deal/Dealmaker of the Year

ECI Partners exits Racal Acoustics - ECI director Ken Lindsay

Financier/Lender of the Year

Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets

Interim Manager of the Year

David Moore – Interim CFO/CEO of Amoena GmbH

IPO of the Year

Animalcare

Law Firm of the Year

Osborne Clarke

M&A Personality of the Year

Richard Morley – Director of NBGI Private Equity

Specialist Due Diligence Provider of the Year

Hazlewoods LLP

Turnaround of the Year

Booker – CEO Charles Wilson

Vitesse Media Plc