Matthew Eves Email & Phone Number

Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Head of M&A at in EY across the South Region, Insider South West dealmaker of the year 2023. Advising clients on a wide range of transactions - disposals, acquisitions, fund raising and buy outs.Key deals include:-- Sale of Assured Data Protection to Oakley Capital- Adviser to the shareholders of Fargo Systems on their investment from August Private Equity- Sale of Dee Set to Acosta Europe- Sale of Recycling Lives metals business to Global Ardour- Sale of Fastlane to Steer Automotive - Adviser to shareholders of Assured Data Protection on their investment from Soho Square- Buyside adviser to Startraq on the acquisition of Farthest Gate- Sale of Cloud8 to Benefex- Adviser to the shareholders of Troy on their investment from BGF- Sale of Startraq to August Private Equity- Adviser to shareholders on Synovas investment into Unity 5 (Zatpark)- Buyside adviser to LDC on their investment in IWS- Sale of Synetiq to IAA for £225m- Sale of Bristol Energy to Together Energy and Yu PLC- Sale of Flybe MRO operations at Brize Norton to Atlantic Aviation Group and the Flybe training academy to Exeter College- Acquisition of Hybrid Media for LDC- Sale of Aerfin to Catacap

Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland

Star Bloodstock has come from a start up in 2014 to a leading consigner to the European breeze up sales. We acquire yearlings across the North American and European yearling sales and resell them at the two year old in training sales "breeze ups" in the UK and France. We use traditional methods for acquiring our horses combined with modern techniques such as cardio vascular, DNA markers, biomechanics measurements and then compare them to our database of horses using advanced data science methodology.In 2018 we had grown to c€1m of sales across the European sales and have a large pool of international investors. Graduates include G2 winner Duhail, Cornwallis G3 winner Abel HandyIn 2019 we will sold 22 horses at the Breeze ups, with total sales over €1.2m with 4 graduates representing Star at Ascot. Graduates of the 2019 include A’Ali winner of the 2019 G2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot, and Prix Robert Papin, Pop Dancer, Pink Sands, Majestic Sands and Better the Devil.2021 graduates include G2 winning Malavath, who was second at the Breeders cup Juveniles Fillies and was subsequently sold for €3.2m in Dec 2022.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Isca Ventures is the leading independent and specialist corporate finance adviser in the South West. Our partner team have significant private equity, sale mandate and fund raising experience. We have repeatedly advised on leading deals in the South West region, including Insider deal of the year Adey, MK Test, Woods Group and Loungers, sale of Seams.The approach at Isca is built around working in long-term partnership with clients, managing their corporate finance strategies through to a successful conclusion and being ‘in for the journey’.

The provision of corporate finance and property acquisition advice to high net worth individuals. Through combining corporate acquisition advice with property acquisition advice Equity Growth Partners works with clients to grow their wealth.

Midlands

Our fund made a return after tax to the investors of 2.5x money. Successful investments include Ensek (sold to LDC for 4x) and Parsons Bakery (sold to Management). As an Investment Director at MTLS Ventures I sourced potential investment opportunities for the fund. MTLS specialises in investing between £0.5m and £1.5m of equity into growth businesses in the form of equity.

Bath

Egg Homes is a sustainable luxury developer with our first project in the Lake District. This is an exciting project being created to take living standards to a new level

Loungers is a cafe/bar group operating across multiple sites in the south west. The business has grown from a single site in 2002 to 20 sites at the end of 2011. The growth was recognised in the industry at the Morning Advertiser MA150 awards where Loungers won the most impressive growth category. Loungers has ambitions to grow the number of units in the coming years and has proven itself as a robust casual dining concept through the recession.In April 2012, Piper Private Equity took a significant minority stake in Loungers to aid growth of the business to 70 sites over the next 5 years and I left the board but remain an investor in the business..

After arranging the acquisition of the trade and assets of Mantinga for investors, I am was a non-executive Director of the business aiding with development and growth. Mantinga supplies high quality bakery products. We sold this investment in Feb 2011 to Boulangeries De France combining Mantinga and BDF provides a national foot print for delivery of bakery products.

Advised the on the management buy-out of Speedcheck Services Ltd. This buy-out was funded by LDC, HSBC and the management team. SCS operate the majority of the average speed cameras in the UK and intend to build a major traffic enforcement group.

Bath

Matt led the corporate finance team of Target taking it from an unknown advisory business in 2005 to winning SW Deal Awards advisory team of the year in 2009. During this time Matt advised on over 15 deals with a total deal value of £250m.Matt led the advice on the following deals:- £71m buy-out of NP Aerospace (backed by Morgan Crucible and Barclays)- £7m private equity investment into Playforce (backed by ISIS and HSBC)- £10.1m investment into Cablecom (backed by ISIS and RBS)- £12m MBO of Shield Environmental (backed by RBS)- £7m sale of Cornish Bakehouse to HG Capital- Sale of Lifecycle Services to SIMS recycling- A non-disclosed acquisition of a medical IT business for over £20m

Financial modelling, preparation of business plans and execution of M&A deals. Successfully sold Eclipse Internet to Kingston Communications and Cornish Linen Services to Davies Group.

Cfq, Corporate Finance Qualification

Activities and Societies: ICAEW Corporate Finance qualification

Meng, Aeronautical Engineering