Sheffield based dealmakers Castle Square Corporate Finance acted as lead deal advisers to the management team who bought a controlling stake in Realstone. Limited Chesterfield based Realstone is one of the largest suppliers of natural stone in the UK and has three production sites which process stone extracted from eight quarries operated by the Group’s […]
Sportswear specialist raises the game
Kevan Shaw of Castle Square Corporate Finance has negotiated the successful Management Buy-Out of Samurai International Sportswear. Kevan advised founder and Managing Director Terry Sands, Sales Director Richard Brand and Finance Director Chris Lawrence, and assisted the company in raising the necessary funds. Samurai manufactures and supplies multisports teamwear to bespoke designs from its own […]
Dealmakers steer international travel group Buy-Out
Kevan Shaw acted as lead deal adviser to the Buy-Out team of Sean Taggart and Steve Hornby, on the Management Buy-Out of the award-winning Albatross Travel Group. The Albatross Group is a market-leading wholesale travel organisation, promoting its tours exclusively to the travel industry. The Group was established in the UK in 1985 and currently […]
Manor plants the seeds of success
Kevan Shaw has advised on the Management Buy-Out of Manor Plant Hire Limited. The deal was the second disposal in three years for the major shareholder, Adrian Harkin, who sold AMH Construction to its management team in 2005. Manor Plant Hire is the leading independent plant and tool hire company in Derby. The company supplies […]
Pyronix management secure full control
The Management team of one of the UK’s leading providers of quality security equipment has gained total ownership of their company via the buy- out of a 36% stake, held by Investment Company 3i PLC in its parent company Secure Holdings Limited. The management team, led by Julie Kenny, CBE and Sebastian Herrara, were advised […]
New focus on future for top security camera company
A high tech nationwide security business controlled from a bank of television screens in a Sheffield underground bunker, has been taken over in a Management Buy-Out by former managing director Phil Bunting and new incoming chairman Geoffrey White. Kevan Shaw helped ease the deal through at Camwatch, by attracting significant private equity investment from Aberdeen […]
Print company creates the right impression
Kevan Shaw has ensured a red letter day for a leading print company by easing it through a Management Buy-Out. Kevan acted as lead advisor for the team which has taken over the reins at Venture Business Forms Ltd. Established more than 25 years ago and now supplying a diverse customer base across the UK […]
Phill says “I do” to wife Alison’s business proposal
A successful South Yorkshire business has been sold by its owner – to her husband! Industrial Personnel, of Doncaster Gate, Rotherham, a market leader in the supply of labour to the industrial, distribution, social care and commercial sectors, has been acquired by Phill Buckley from his wife, sole shareholder Alison Cutts. Kevan Shaw acted as […]
Blueprint for future success
Kevan Shaw advised a Management Buy-Out team, led by Judith Fox, on their successfully completed acquisition of Rotherham-based Horner Brothers Print Group Limited. The company manufactures operational printed matter including business cards and compliment slips which are supplied to customers such as HBOS, Prudential and BT. Kevan Shaw said “Horner is a first class business […]