A senior advisor working with companies on their corporate development plans, including cross border expansion, business change and performance improvement. I specialise in Consumer & Industrial Markets. I previously led KPMG’s Automotive business across the UK and was a member of KPMG’s Global Automotive steering groupAutomotive:Ford's sale of its Craiova plant to Otosan, Inchcape's acquisition of distribution businesses in Indonesia, the Caribbean, Guam, Uruguay, Equador, Chile and the disposals of its UK retail business, UK Fleet Solutions and the Russian retail business. TIP Europe's acquisition of Grayrentals; IAC’s acquisition of Stankiewicz in Germany. Various corporate development, governance and fundraising projects for BMW/MINI, JLR, Aston Martin, Inobat, Ricardo, McLaren, LEVC, JCB and PendragonAdvanced engineering & services:Rentokil acquisition of Terminix, API's acquisition of Chubb Fire & Security, Coats acquisitions of Texon, Rhenoflex, Pharr, ThreadSol and Gotex, Toppan's acquisition of Skymark Packaging, IPO's of Intelligent Energy and Epwin, Epwin acquisition of Storm King, IMI acquisitions of TH Jansen, Remosa and Grupo InterAtiva; IMI’s disposal of Merchandising. Hill & Smith’s acquisitions of Enduro Composites, Paterson, ATA in Sweden and Premier Galvanising. Rolls-Royce’s capital restructure and later acquisition of Odim. FKI bid services ahead of its acquisition by Melrose. Consumer information and related tech:Experian acquisitions - Serasa in Brazil, Pacific MicroMarketing Australia, Sinotrust China, Mighty Net in the US and KreditInform in South Africa; Riskdisk, CorpFin, 192Business and Garlik in the UK. Disposals of Footfall, Hitwise and SimmonsLiving Bridge's disposal of LBM direct marketing and acquisition of Red Box Recorders. Sale of Node4Fresh Prepared food:Sale of Addo Food Group and Park Cakes, Samworth's acquisitions of Higgidy, Manton Wood, West Cornwall Pasty and Soreen. Bakkavor’s disposal of european salad businesses and acquisitions of Italpizza in Italy and Heli Food in CzechPoultry:J Bowler Eggs MBO, PD Hook growth investment, VION’s sale to 2 Sisters; Advent’s disposal of Aviagen and acquisitions including British United Turkeys B.U.T and others in Spain, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. Cargill's acquisition of Freeman’s. Agri-food:ED&F Man acquisition of Maviga; merger forming Openfield; mergers forming Frontier Agriculture; growth financing for Camgrain. Agrii acquisitions of UAP and Carrs Fertilisers.Business services:IPO of Gateley. Irwin Mitchell's acquisition of Thomas Eggar.