About Us
Charles Cattaneo
Mobile: +44 7774 276512
Charles has over 20 years corporate finance experience gained in investment banking, industry and as a corporate finance partner with both KPMG and Grant Thornton. He also has two years experience as Finance Director working on the successful turnaround of a significant private group of companies.
Charles Cattaneo
He is experienced in all aspects of corporate finance and has advised on over 90 completed public transactions including 40 City Code takeovers (10 were P2Ps). To date he has personally advised on over £3bn worth of corporate transactions including hostile and recommended takeovers, acquisitions, disposals, equity and debt fund raisings, transfers to the Full List and to AIM and flotations.
Charles is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute. He also holds the ICAEW corporate finance qualification. He earned an MBA from Birmingham University where he also read commerce as an undergraduate.
He has been a director of a number of public and private companies and is currently the Chairman of the West Midlands Regional Advisory Group of the London Stock Exchange.
Martyn Pilley
Mobile: +44 7768 463747
Martyn has specialised in corporate finance for more than 16 years and has experience of working in both London and Birmingham, having been a partner in both RSM Robson Rhodes and Grant Thornton. He has also undertaken a secondment to a City based private equity firm where he led transactions as principal.
Martyn Pilley
Martyn has advised on a wide range of transactions including company acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins as well as City Code transactions. His clients have included private and public companies as well as those operating in the public sector. He has advised on more than 70 completed transactions across a range of sectors including manufacturing & engineering, property & construction, support services, telecoms, software, education, leisure, printing & packaging and retail.
Martyn is a graduate of the University of Leeds, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and also holds the ICAEW Corporate Finance qualification.
Ian Stanway
Mobile: +44 7837 179502
Ian Stanway
Ian has over 25 years corporate finance experience gained in investment banking and corporate stockbroking firms including; Brewin Dolphin, Williams de Broë, Allied Provincial and Lloyds Merchant Bank and as a specialist corporate finance adviser with the Capital Markets team at Grant Thornton.
He is experienced in a wide range of corporate finance activities including recommended takeovers, hostile defences, acquisitions, disposals, fund raising, including placings, rights issues and debt raising, capital re-organisations, flotations on the Official List and AIM and transfers between those two markets. Ian has advised on over 20 public company takeovers, P2Ps and hostile defences.
Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Member of the Securities and Investment Institute.
Stephen Bishop
Mobile: +44 7970 661325
Stephen is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years corporate finance experience advising a wide range of businesses across a number of sectors including Support Services, Printing & Packaging, Media, Telecommunications and Engineering & Manufacturing.
Stephen Bishop
Stephen has advised companies, management teams and private equity houses on transactions, ranging in size from £0.5million to over £100million, including company disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins, debt and equity fund raising. He has also advised companies on their business planning and processes and designed financial models in support of transactions and for use as management information tools.
He graduated from the University of Warwick in 1997 and joined RSM Robson Rhodes as a graduate audit trainee, moving to the Corporate Finance team in 2000. Following the merger with RSM Robson Rhodes, Stephen joined Grant Thornton's corporate finance team in July 2007. He also holds the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Corporate Finance qualification.
Leveraging Our Resources
Cattaneo LLP leverages its operations by working with industry consultants & specialists who are relevant to client assignments.
Nigel Bacon - Consultant
Mobile: +44 7887 826824
Nigel trained as a chartered accountant with KPMG in Birmingham and spent two years with them in Melbourne, Australia. During the late 80’s and early 90’s he specialised in Corporate Recovery work and is a licensed insolvency practitioner, becoming a partner in Robson Rhodes in 1993. During the late 90’s Nigel specialised in Corporate Finance with Ernst & Young and carried out major re-organisations such as that of Railtrack.
Nigel Bacon
In 2002 he joined the Pertemps Group, being appointed to the main board in 2003 and took responsibility for the Treasury function as well as extensive M&A work. Nigel became group finance director in 2004. Following the flotation of Network Group Holdings Plc out of Pertemps in 2007, Nigel was appointed its finance director and subsequently led the sale of Pertemps People Development Group for an enterprise value of £43m.
He is currently the chief executive of Secantor Limited a business providing FDs on a part time, interim or full time basis across the UK. He is also the senior non-executive director of Media Square plc (an AIM listed company) and has also served on the Regional Council of the West Midlands CBI. Having left Pertemps and Network Group Holdings Plc in early 2009 he remains a consultant to those companies as well as a consultant to Forward Group.
