Private Equity and Fundraising
This also comes under the heading “Corporate Finance” and means literally finance for corporate ventures whether they be start-ups, developing businesses or mature companies or entities. As a result the services provided by the Corporate Department are often used in conjunction with other forms of transaction such as acquisitions or private equity deals. In its purest form private equity may mean simply raising equity finance from a group of private individuals (but see Private Equity for more common use of this phrase), but in so doing the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and its related rules and regulations come into play. We have the relevant financial services expertise to secure funds in the appropriate regulatory manner. Fundraising will also have a reason for taking place whether it be an acquisition, developing or creating intellectual property or funding working capital for a new concept. It will be often a multiple finance transaction involving numerous related transactions requiring expert project management of both our own and outside resources.