Cattaneo Corporate Finance win at Insider Dealmakers Awards 2026.
We are delighted that our team’s hard work and deal origination efforts have been recognised with the Insider Midlands Dealmakers Award for Bespoke Corporate Finance Team of the Year – a prestigious award judged by prominent members of the region’s deal making community, making it a real honour to be recognised for an outstanding year. We offer our congratulations to all the winners as well as those shortlisted.
It’s been an astonishing year in which one of our transactions, the investment of Mercia Ventures into Heidi, the online bespoke ski holiday business, was also highly commended in Insider’s South West Dealmakers Awards. We then supported Livingbridge-backed Kindred Education on three acquisitions in a month followed by advising on the acquisition by Geovista of Australia’s Mission Critical Group.
Our transaction origination skills were manifested in the acquisition by Niche & Bespoke of Deluxe Catering, the sale by UnitBirwelco of Unit Superheater Engineering to Sterling Thermal Technologies and the acquisition of Sappi Rockwell by Camvac International.
Furthermore we advised on the sale of Hyperdrug Pharmaceuticals to AIM-listed Vulcan Two Group PLC, an innovative transaction in which Vulcan Two made three simultaneous acquisitions while raising £30m in a placing, and the sale of Kigass Aero Components to Llanalec Precision Engineering backed by Hanover Investors.
Our debt advisory team was also busy, arranging the funding for the Niche & Bespoke transaction while also sourcing a debt package to support Japanese restaurant group, Kibou, on its expansion including its soon to open site in central Birmingham, refinancing an existing manufacturing client with enhanced facilities and supporting another client on extending its debt facilities.
Charles Cattaneo commented:
“It’s fantastic to be recognised by our peers in the Midlands dealmaking community. In the last year we have been completing transactions of all types which reflects the bespoke nature of what we do – applying the benefit of our experience and technical and commercial knowledge to add value to our clients. We continue to see strong deal flow and anticipate further transactions being brought to completion by the end of the calendar year.”
