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Connor graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with first-class honours in International Finance & Economics and a distinction in Finance and Investment MSc. His Masters dissertation focused on the effect of Brexit on share prices around annual accounts release dates for FTSE 100 companies. Connor will be supporting the team on transactions and undertaking research.

Sheffield based specialist Corporate Finance Firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance, acted as the Lead Adviser to Red Industries,  a waste management company based in Staffordshire. Red Industries has expanded and strengthened their position as one of the UK’s leading independent waste businesses with the acquisition of a competitor - Environmental Resource Group (ERG).

Staffordshire based waste management company, Red Industries, has expanded and strengthened their position as one of the UK’s leading independent waste businesses with the acquisition of competitor, West Midland based Environmental Resource Group (ERG), in a transaction which Sheffield based specialist Corporate Finance Firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance, acted as the Lead Adviser. BGF, the UK’s most active investor in…

Castle Square Corporate Finance are delighted to be supporting Sheffield Children’s Hospital this Christmas.   See our snowflake shining brightly as you drive past.

Rotherham headquartered Harvest Healthcare; a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality healthcare equipment has changed ownership in a Management Buy-Out, led by Managing Director, Neil Davis. The company manufactures, supplies and services active & static mattresses and cushions, profiling beds, and moving & handling equipment to care home groups, community care equipment stores, and hospitals, both direct and via a…

Rotherham headquartered Harvest Healthcare; a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality healthcare equipment has changed ownership in a Management Buy-Out, led by Managing Director, Neil Davis. The company manufactures, supplies and services active & static mattresses and cushions, profiling beds, and moving & handling equipment to care home groups, community care equipment stores, and hospitals, both direct and via a…

Director Kevan Shaw and Patrick Lynch from the Castle Square Team advised Prodis, one of the UK’s leading supplier of own branded products to the catering and hospitality trade, in a Management Buy-Out,  on the deal valuation and ran a structured process which resulted in NatWest providing the necessary finance to complete the transaction. Prodis, based in Stoke on Trent,…

  Prodis, one of the UK’s leading supplier of own branded products to the catering and hospitality trade, has changed ownership in a Management Buy-Out, led by Managing Director, Anthony Faulkner, with Sheffield based dealmakers, Castle Square Corporate Finance providing corporate finance advice to the management team, with Newcastle Under Lyme based law firm, Beswick’s, providing legal advice. Prodis, based…

Sheffield based dealmaking firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance played a key role in completing two transactions which have a combined funding requirement of £23m and were backed by Private Equity Investor Zachary Asset Holdings with HSBC providing £12.750m of acquisition finance and working capital facilities, to sit alongside the equity investment made by Zachary Asset Holdings and the management team.…

A new force in the travel sector has been created by the simultaneous completion of two transactions, intended to be the first stage of a buy and build play in the specialist travel sector, in which Sheffield based dealmaking firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance played a key role. The transactions have a combined funding requirement of £23m and were backed…

The following article is extracted from The Sheffield Star, dated Thursday 18 October 2018. A Sheffield businessman has stepped in to ensure a Union Jack that once flew on the doomed British warship HMS Sheffield, will take pride of place in the ship’s spiritual home. Kevan Shaw, from Castle Square Corporate Finance, donated £3,275 to the HMS Sheffield Association appeal…

Venture Business Forms Limited (Venture) a specialist print management group with a £6 million turnover, has been snapped up by Yorkshire headquartered Hague Print Media Limited in a transaction advised on by dealmaking firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance, who advised Venture back in 2007 when they acquired the business via a Management Buy-Out.

Specialist print management group Venture Business Forms Limited (Venture) has been snapped up by Hague Print Media Limited in a transaction advised on by Sheffield based dealmaking firm, Castle Square Corporate Finance, (Castle Square). Director Steve Bell advised the selling shareholders on the transaction, in which Hague Print emerged as the preferred bidder from a structured trade sale process. Steve…

UK holiday park operator Coppergreen Developments has acquired Kenwick Park Golf Hotel & Spa in Lincolnshire and the Lodge Park in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, doubling the size of its portfolio. BGF has invested £10m of growth capital while HSBC has provided £15.3m towards these purchases and general group capital expenditure. Castle Square Corporate Finance, advised Coppergreen on the acquisition of…

UK holiday park operator Coppergreen Developments has acquired Kenwick Park Golf Hotel & Spa in Lincolnshire and the Lodge Park in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, doubling the size of its portfolio. BGF has invested £10m of growth capital while HSBC has provided £15.3m towards these purchases and general group capital expenditure. The new funding takes BGF’s total investment in Coppergreen to…

On 28 June our team member Patrick Lynch, will be taking part in the C2C2C 100 mile cycle around Lincolnshire in order to raise money for St Wilfreds drop-in Centre, who help support the homeless and vulnerable people in Sheffield. If you would like to support the cause, please make a donation using the Just Giving page link. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/patrick-lynch23?platform=hootsuite

Shoreditch based West Hill Acquisitions (WHAL) have acquired Crawley based artisan food services supplier Jeanie Marshal Foods (JMF) in a transaction that creates a multi-disciplinary food services Group offering a wide range of catering products into the UK hospitality sector. JMF specialise in the supply of high-quality bespoke artisan foods and catering services to a number of business sectors throughout…

Castle Square Corporate Finance were lead advisors on the Management Buy-In of a Yorkshire based plumbing and heating specialist in the new build sector. After being introduced to the highly experienced operator in the plumbing and heating sector mid-way through 2017 Castle Square were quick to identify a number of potential Buy-In opportunities available in the sector. After assessing the available…