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Corporate Finance Services

Looking to refinance, restructure, diversify, sell or divest? Planning a management buy-out (MBO) or buy-in (MBI), or an employee ownership trust (EOT)? Or are you acquiring another business? Our specialist advisers have the contacts and knowledge to help make it all happen.

Transform my business

Get access to the capital for change

A business thrives on growth and development. So when the time and opportunity comes to scale up, you’ll need the specialist resources to make it happen. But how do you realise the opportunity, what will be the best source of finance, and will you be getting the most favourable terms?

You want to see your business grow and get closer to your ultimate goals. We can help you achieve this and will always make recommendations that put your business objectives front and centre.

David Scrivener

Simon Martin

Get advice and guidance on:

Business Acquisitions

Business Sales and Valuations

Management Buy Outs & Management Buy Ins (MBO/MBI)

Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT)

Debt & Equity Advisory

Business Acquisitions

Our acquisition accounting team are here to support you right from the initial enquiry, to finding the right business for you, all the way through to completion.

Business Sales and Valuations

Whether you’re looking to understand the value of your business or considering selling, Ensors Corporate Finance team can advise on every step of the process.

Management Buy Outs & Management Buy Ins (MBO/MBI)

We will structure the MBO with payment terms to ensure all parties are clear on the transaction.

Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT)

We can help you to realise the value of your business but remain in charge, benefitting from 0% Capital Gains Tax on the proceeds

Debt & Equity Advisory

We take the time to understand the your business in order to advise and structure a plan to take you to your end goal.

“Thank you to Wilbur and Simon in helping us find a buyer and assisting throughout the process to completion. Our goal was to find a buyer to carry on the legacy and history of the two brands and we are pleased that the successful deal will enable this”

Paul Myatt – Criterion Ices

Meet your local corporate finance experts

Find out my options

Our dedicated M&A team only works on a select number of projects at any time. This ensures we deliver the care, attention and speed of response necessary to secure the right deal and move your business forward.

David Scrivener

Partner

Simon Martin

Partner

Ben Croston

Director

Andrew Warner

Senior Manager

Ross Rowan

Assistant Manager

Clio Thompson

Assistant Manager

Lewis Dyer

Corporate Finance Analyst

Wilbur Wang

Analyst

What Ensors brings to your finance deal

With decades of experience across a healthy range of industries, sectors and sizes of business, we take each project on its merits and enforce no minimum or maximum deal size. We do what’s right for you.

Market Knowledge

As an established firm, we enjoy excellent contacts across the finance industry and an intimate knowledge of the market. It’s likely we’ll have solutions that others don’t.

The Right Advice

From financial modelling to due diligence, valuations, management buy-outs or buy-ins, refinancing, business sales and acquisitions, and capital for all ways your business can grow, we’ll have solutions suitable for you.

Proactive Approach

You’ll want to maintain focus on your business while the experts set about pushing the project forward and getting your finance in place. We’ll take the strain while you steer the ship.

Unmatched Reputation

Ensors is consistently ranked amongst the top dealmakers in Experian’s deals league tables. The 2020 edition saw the team placed top by deal volume in the East of England, which covers our core markets of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.

Industry Recognition

Corporate Finance Partner David Scrivener won ‘Dealmaker
of the Year’ at the Emerging Leaders M&A awards and has been nominated for ‘Dealmaker of the Year’ for the last 4 years at the Central and East Dealmaker awards. Corporate Finance Associate Partner Simon Martin won ‘Emerging Dealmaker of the Year’ in 2021, with the team advising on the ‘Private Equity Deal of the Year’ in 2020 and ‘Deal of the Year under £10m’ in 2022.

Recent deal completions

Project Fuel

Jul-24

Industries: Retail

Impact: Lead advisory services provided to the shareholders on a sale of a petrol station and associated shop.

Project Hawk

Apr-24

Industries: Construction

Impact: Advised the shareholders on structuring and executing a management buy-out.

Project Cascade

Mar-24

Industries: Construction

Impact: Ensors provided lead advisory services in relation to the share sale of one of Suffolk’s leading chartered surveyors to a large multinational group headquartered in France.

Project Pacifico

Feb-24

Industries: Software Development

Impact: Ensors worked alongside an investment bank on the sale of a large professional services technology company and provided corporate finance and technical advisory services to sellers in respect of their sale to a large foreign corporate.

SG&A

Jan-24

Impact: Ensors provided lead advisory services to the sellers in respect of their business sale to an private investor backed MBO in the radiation protection industry.

Project Auctus

Jan-24

Industries: Marketing Agency

Impact: Ensors provided buy side advisory services to a marketing agency who successfully completed the acquisition of an industry competitor.

Project Gerda

Nov-23

Industries: Publishing

Impact: Ensors provided lead advisory services, as well as both corporate and personal taxation advice, to the shareholders of a publishing company in the successful sale of their business.

Project Strong

Oct-23

Industries: Construction

Impact: Ensors provided financial due diligence advice to a lender in respect of their proposed debt facility and cash flow loan to a construction company.

Project Amarillo

Sep-23

Industries: Drink Manufacturing

Impact: Ensors provided lead advisory services relating to a trade and asset purchase for an acquisitive company in the drinks manufacturing industry which included financial and tax due diligence as well assistance negotiating the deal.

Project Libra

Sep-23

Industries: Professional Services

Impact: A marketed sale of a long-standing firm of solicitors. Ensors marketed the company in January 2022 and an asset purchase was agreed and completed in September 2023.

Project Polaris

Sep-23

Industries: Business Services

Impact: Ensors successfully marketed and completed a sale of shares in HMP Associates, a payroll specialist. The deal completed in under 2 months following exclusivity.

Project Magnet

Sep-23

Industries: Agriculture

Impact: Ensors provided tax due diligence services for an acquisition of 100% of the shares in a cow and calf housing company.

Project Jupiter

Jul-23

Industries: Real Estate

Impact: Ensors provided advice to the sellers in the disposal of various assets and trade of a real estate company.

Project Maidstone

Jun-23

Industries: Engineering

Impact: Provided advice surrounding legal documents, negotiations and corporation tax issues for an acquisition.

Project Eclipse

May-23

Industries: Advertising

Impact: Provided structuring and valuation advice ahead of facilitating an EOT for a learning solutions provider.

Project Leo

May-23

Industries: Glaziers

Impact: Structured and facilitated a management buy out, providing advice to the sellers.

Project Sonic

May-23

Industries: Retail

Impact: Advised on an acquisition of 100% of shares in a fasteners company.

Project Tulip

Apr-23

Industries: Real Estate

Impact: Corporate Tax, VAT and due diligence advice provided for an acquisition of properties and a property investment company.

Project Tangerine

Apr-23

Industries: Private Equity

Impact: Provided due diligence services to the purchasers of a medical spaces company.

Project X

Mar-23

Industries: Processing and packaging

Impact: Provided lead advisory services for a sale of a poultry packer company.

Project Pulsar

Mar-23

Industries: Research & Development

Impact: Provided tailored advisory services for the founders of EGT Group to sell via an Employee Ownership Trust.

Project Build

Mar-23

Industries: Construction

Impact: Bespoke advice provided on raising debt finance to facilitate a share repurchase.

Project Grape

Feb-23

Industries: Retail

Impact: Corporate finance advice provided for a proposed management buyout.

Project Alloy

Feb-23

Industries: Manufacturing

Impact: Implemented a Management Buy Out of a business in the manufacturing industry.

Project Charge

Feb-23

Industries: Technology

Impact: Tax and corporate finance advice provided to a company initiating a fundraise.

Project Doctor

Feb-23

Industries: Property development

Impact: Advised on a sale of 100% of the shares in a distressed property development company.

Project Moore

Feb-23

Industries: Construction

Impact: Provided corporate finance advice for the acquisition of a roofing company and it’s subsidiaries.

Project Plough

Feb-23

Industries: Retail

Impact: Assisted on the tax implications of a purchase of the trade and assets of a clothing company in administration.

Project Care

Jan-23

Industries: Healthcare

Impact: Provided advice to the seller of a care staffing company on the share purchase agreement from a corporate finance and tax perspective.

Project Pier

Dec-22

Industries: Entertainment

Impact: Advised the sellers of an amusement company on a sale of shares from its parent company.

Project Cloud

Dec-22

Industries: Technology

Impact: Advised the sellers tax for structuring an EMI scheme for a technology company.

Project Flame

Dec-22

Industries: Fire safety

Impact: Advised the sellers on a sale of a fire safety protection company.

Project Gilbert

Dec-22

Industries: Recruitment

Impact: Carried out full scope due diligence work on Taskmaster Resources who were subsequently acquired by IPE Ventures, a private equity firm.

Project Stay

Nov-22

Industries: Hospitality

Impact: Provided corporate finance and tax advice on a demerger for a hotel company to facilitate a change in ownership. Advised on subsequent transfer of shares.

Project Remy

Nov-22

Industries: Retail

Impact: Advised a management team on an MBO of a catering company.

Project Florence

Nov-22

Industries: Manufacturing

Impact: Advised Criterion Ices Limited and Mare Novum Limited on its asset sale to Northern Bloc Ice Cream Limited.

Project Seville

Nov-22

Industries: Freight

Impact: Organised a Management Buy Out for a freight services company.

Project Norfolk

Aug-22

Industries: Education services

Impact: Bespoke due diligence work carried out on the target company who were successfully acquired to expand purchasers coverage in the educational industry.