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The Mobile Boardroom and Corporate Finance Boutique
SLIDE 2 Formed in 1989
‘First corporate trouble shooting team in the UK’
(Financial Times,1992)
Pioneered the ‘Mobile Boardroom’ concept Unrivalled expertise across Southern England Team has grown to 20 Senior Consultants Service specialism:
- Interim Management
- Corporate Finance
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Leading independent consultancy practice in
the South East
Highly respected and well regarded -100+
retained clients
Strong relationships with leading firms Extensive network throughout the South East High profile companies and associations Advisory panels and business community
involvement
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South East focus: Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire Offices in: Eastbourne, Brighton, Maidstone,
Crawley, Chichester
National and international project experience
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cally:
- SME’s
- Owner Managed operations
- Small PLC’s
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Publ blic ic or private vate secto tor
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Busi sines ness s size: e:
- Project dependant
- Turnover range £5m-50m+
Target every stage of the business cycle
SME’s Small PLC’s National or Multinationals
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SLIDE 7 Lead service Satisfy the highly underserviced SME sector Exploiting the demand for well qualified and
locally focused consultants
Executive level Principals
- Specialist knowledge and experience
- General management skills
Combined we are the ‘Mobile Boardroom’
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First hand experience Various roles, disciplines and business levels Titles and roles performed include:
Non-Executive Chairman CEO / Managing Director Commercial Finance Director Marketing / Sales Director Chief Restructuring Officer Acquisition Director
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Business reviews, benchmarking, performance analysis
Non-executive, strategic planning
Lasting relationships with clients Provide strategic direction and advice Lonely world of owner manger businesses Delivering tangible and measurable outcomes An integral part of the management team
SLIDE 10 Broadest based industry knowledge in the South
- Construction
- Motor
- FMCG
- IT and Media
- Recruitment
- Import/Export
- Logistics
- Education
- Leisure
- Property
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Service
- Telco
- Pharmaceuticals
- Healthcare
- Motor
- Design, PR and marketing
- Print and publishing
- Fashion and design
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SLIDE 12 Established1994 Response to successful turnaround work
Complementary to interim management offering Advising organisations and individuals Experience working in major finance groups
- Corporate finance, venture capital and merchant banking
Strong relationships with investment community
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Full range including: Target identification and evaluation Raising venture capital and equity investment Debt funding and asset-based finance Exit planning Grooming ‘for sale’ Business sales IPO’s Financial packaging and restructuring
SLIDE 14 Not a ‘pure’ brokerage Complimentary to our ‘mobile boardroom’ Personal industry experience Skills gained at the ‘coal face’
- Leading transactions within our own
- rganisations/clients
No junior staff Personal contact and service delivery Cost effective for SME’s Added value of cross-fertilised skills
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Over 200 transactions completed Total deal value £250m+
‘Getting to know a business intimately requires patience, verve and expertise. The team at EMC have it all’
(M&A Magazine)
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‘We are grateful to EMC for guiding us successfully
through a process and transaction made a lot more difficult by the special issues surrounding the Icelandic banks. Handling highly complex negotiations with great skill and dexterity demonstrating focus and resolution’.
Simon Yorke, H&B Foods ‘As a Scotsman, you would expect me to be careful
with my money; nor am I easily impressed by professional advisors. With EMC I paid regional fee rates and got a top quality service’.
Eddie Campbell, Practical Print Solutions
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- ur side was incredibly invaluable. EMC were
always available to help their experience and advice assisted us immensely. A job very well done and worth every penny!’
Guy Roberts, Pelham International Ltd ‘We understand software but this corporate stuff is
completely beyond us and we had total confidence that EMC would look after our best interests.’
Charles James, Axiom Connection Ltd
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Indirect
- Referral network
- Major sponsors of the M&A Awards
‘Deal of the Year Award’ 2007 ‘Deal of the Year Award’ 2008 ‘Growth company deal of the year’ 2010
‘Company valuations’, ‘Surviving a recession’, ‘How to sell your business’, ‘How to grow your sales’
SLIDE 19 Charity supporters
- Sussex Community Foundation
- ‘Have a Heart’ charity
Joint founders of business lunch clubs
- Brighton & Hove;
- Tunbridge Wells;
- Maidstone; and
- Crawley
Hove Rugby Club sponsors Sussex County Cricket club
SLIDE 20 Raise finance Manage growth and development Maximise business performance Groom business for sale Sell Establish NewCo
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