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Insider Dealmakers Awards 2010 - Midlands
More than 700 dealmakers attended our prestigious annual awards ceremony at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel where they witnessed LDC, Catalyst Corporate Finance and Eversheds dominate the proceedings.
LDC won the Private Equity House of the Year category for the second year running whilst the firm’s Midlands managing director Martin Draper retained the headline Dealmaker of the Year award and his Venture Capitalist of the Year crown.
Eversheds won the Corporate Law Firm of the Year award and the individual Corporate Lawyer of the Year category, in the shape of partner Stephen Kitts.
Catalyst’s managing partner Andy Currie won the Corporate Finance Adviser of the Year category whilst the firm also won the Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year award.
Elsewhere, Ian Howey of Yorkshire Bank retained his Corporate Banker of the Year award and Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets held on to the Corporate Bank of the Year prize. The Deal of the Year was Barclays Private Equity’s £325m sale of Derbyshire’s Deb Group to management and Charterhouse Capital partners, whilst Matt Caffrey of ISIS Equity Partners won the Young Dealmaker of the Year award.
The Fund Manager of the Year award went to Midven whilst Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance was once again chosen as the Asset-based Lender of the Year.
Midlands Business Insider editor Andy Coyne told the audience: “Whilst no one is getting carried away, there has undoubtedly been a marked increase in activity this year. Much of it involving trade buyers in the first part of the year but increasingly private equity firms have come into the picture.
“And whilst last year we were feeding on scraps, in 2010 there have been some cracking Midlands deals and many of those - and the dealmakers behind them - have rightly been rewarded tonight.”
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