Investment banking
Our investment banking division provides a range of financial advisory and capital markets services delivering value to corporate clients through an integrated investment banking approach.
Advice and services on equity capital markets, debt advisory, private and public mergers & acquisitions (M&A), investor relations, private equity and corporate broking. Our specialist sector and product teams are led by experienced practitioners widely recognised as being leaders in their chosen areas of practice.
Specialist teams
We do not employ generalists. Each member of our team has a distinct specialism that aligns with the sector teams in our Research department. It means we have true experts in every area we cover.
Sound principles
It has been said that principles aren’t principles until they cost you money. We are prepared to walk away from mandates if we feel they aren’t right for us. We believe the firm is stronger for it.
Long-term focus
We put long-term success above short-term gain, helping good companies succeed and delivering outstanding results.
Technology
We use our unrivalled data capture to get accurate and live data to best inform and advise our clients.
Sector expertise
Sector specialists focused on long–term franchise development. Our sector teams provide integrated financial advisory and capital markets services as well as sector coverage. Each team is exclusively focused on their chosen area.
It means they are better informed and able to give the best strategic advice. We do not set revenue targets for individuals or teams. It eliminates any need to focus on short-term revenue opportunities and encourages long-term franchise development built around the concept of relevant corporate clients.
Product teams
Our Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team is devoted to ensuring the success of our equity capital-raising mandates, across all sectors. ECM is a key part of any Corporate client relationship.
Our highly experienced team advises on potential equity transactions, assessing their relevance, structuring, timing and likely pricing. We provide invaluable aid to the presentation of the equity story, identify key target investors and then manage all interactions with those investors once the fundraise is underway. The strength of our institutional investor relationships provides us with significant placing power for our issuer clients.
On execution, our ECM team leads on pricing and allocations – ensuring stock is placed in the right hands at the right price.
Brian Hanratty
Head of ECM, Investment Banking
- +44 (0) 20 3597 8690
Sohail Akbar
Head of Equity Syndicate, Investment Banking
- +44 (0) 20 3597 8642
Our Private Equity coverage team is pro-actively engaged in the coverage of financial sponsors and private equity firms across a broad range of sectors, products and services.
Our services include exit advice via IPO or sale and new portfolio acquisitions via public-to-privates or buy-side advice.
This holistic approach allows us to have a much broader front of engagement with this audience and clearly differentiates Peel Hunt in the market, builds broader and deeper value added relationships which is particularly important given the growing “crossover” of private equity into the UK public equity arena.
Mark Barrow
Head of Private Equity Coverage – Investment Banking
- +44 7783788301
Our Investor Relations team provides a comprehensive service, including shareholder analysis, screening and targeting for underweight and non-holders as well as full logistics support for roadshows (both domestically and internationally), including corporate governance & chairman roadshows.
We also provide full feedback reporting, along with reporting in response to specific requests from corporate IR professionals.
Nicola Smith
Head of Investor Relations – Investment Banking
- +44 20 3597 8635
Our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team specialises in providing financial advice on change-of-control transactions in and around the listed company arena.
Our roles include (i) advising UK-listed clients on a retained basis to support their strategic growth ambitions and in takeover situations (hostile or recommended), (ii) advising overseas corporates on investment opportunities in the UK, and (iii) advising private equity firms on carve-out or take-private transactions.
- Our broad corporate client base provides deep insight into UK plc boardrooms and their decision-making processes.
- Our equity distribution platform elicits valuable, company-specific intelligence on shareholder views in the context of M&A transactions.
- Our focus on public markets means that we are natively fluent in the regulatory language that these transactions are conducted in. The M&A team includes a former secondee to the Takeover Panel, providing first-hand experience of the primary regulator of UK takeover transactions.
The combination of these capabilities in the UK mid-market is unique to Peel Hunt and means that we deliver a full-service M&A solution to our clients, enabling them to make robust strategic and tactical decisions based on high quality information and analysis, and to have complete confidence in successful transaction execution.
Michael Nicholson
Head of Advisory and M&A – Investment Banking
- +44 20 7418 8850
The Private Capital Markets (PCM) team at Peel Hunt focuses on advising unquoted issuers seeking capital from investors.
The team leverages an expansive network of relationships and a global distribution network to provide efficient capital to our corporate clients across all investor groups, including private equity, venture capital, family offices, ultra-high net worth individuals, sovereign wealth funds, institutions, foundations, strategic/corporates, cross-over investors and hedge funds.
Peel Hunt’s market knowledge and extensive private financing experience ensures the most favourable terms for our corporate clients and the most appropriate investor base to fit their needs.
The PCM team is not only sector agnostic but also operates across the capital structure, working in close coordination with the other product and sector teams across the Investment Banking division. For PCM opportunities, Peel Hunt does not operate on a minimum capital raise model and instead seeks to assess our client’s needs on a case-by-case basis.
Charlie Peat
Head of PCM, Investment Banking
- +44 (0) 20 7418 8893
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