OUR SERVICE:

 Clients choose FSI's corporate team because:

• we have 9 partners with broad expertise in M&A, AIM, corporate finance, banking and tax
• of our track record in multiple sectors, particularly the leisure, gaming, property, insurance and natural resources markets
• you will always have experienced partners driving your deals
• our clients stay with us, many have instructed us for more than 15 years

RECENT EXPERIENCE ADVISING:

• the owners and managers of XLN Telecom Limited, one of Britain’s fastest growing alternative Telecom Service Providers focusing on the Small Business sector, on their sale, by way of an MBO and backing from Zeus Private Equity. This highly successful business offers the lowest phone rates in the UK to small businesses and has been a National Business Awards Finalist for three consecutive years: 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2007, XLN Telecom was ranked 29th on the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 survey of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the UK
• AIM listed York Pharma on the conditional acquisition of Derms Development Limited a specialise dermatology business for £17.5 million.  In conjunction, the team advised York Pharma on its £5.35 million fundraising by secondary placing
• Tragus on their agreement to operate their existing restaurant brands within Center Parcs holiday village
• nomad and broker Daniel Stewart & Company Plc in connection with secondary placing of new ordinary shares for AT Communications Group Plc
• shareholders of Blues Clothing on the management buy-out of the company
• AIM listed client, ADDleisure, on the £3 million investment by BUPA, equivalent to a 29.9% share in the company and on BUPA's conditional agreement to make a further equity investment of £3.7 million to acquire a 50% equity stake in ADD Wellness Holdings Limited
• AIM listed client, Jelf Group Plc, on its acquisition of SPS Wellbeing Ltd for up to £10 million, a market leading specialist healthcare and group risk intermediary, and on a £20 million financing with The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
• Daniel Stewart & Company Plc, a nomad and broker, on the placing and admission of STM Group Plc to trading on AIM, raising gross funds of £7.5 million with a market capitalisation of £17.6 million
• AIM listed client, York Pharma Plc, on the acquisition of Rosanto Pharmaceuticals Limited for £2.5 million together with a £5.25 million placing of new shares. York Pharma acquires, develops and markets products in the dermatological field.
• Conran Holdings and Blackstone Real Estate, co-owners of the Great Eastern Hotel, on the sale of the hotel to Global Hyatt Corporation and JER Partners
• our portfolio of 20 AIM listed clients on their acquisition and fundraisings
• our nominated adviser and broker clients on AIM admissions and secondary placings
• Ashcroft Estates and their partners on the corporate structure for a joint venture which will enable the redevelopment of Barnsley market
• Retirement Villages on the corporate aspects of their recent acquisitions
• The management team of Conran Restaurants on their MBO
• Jelf Group Plc on its circa £40m equity fundraising and the acquisition of the Manson Group for £18.5m and the acquisition of Clarke Roxburgh Group for £27m
• Sport Media Group Plc on its £50 million acquisition of Sport Newspapers Limited from David Sullivan, David Gold and Ralph Gold together with a £43.7 million placing
• Aim listed Mirada Plc on the acquisition of Fresh Interactive Technologies S.A., a placing raising funds of £8.4 million, a debt capitalisation of £5.2 million and the admission of the ordinary shares to trading on AIM with a market capitalisation of £21.7 million
• D&D London (formerly Conran Restaurants) on their acquisition of the Image group of London restaurants.  The deal added The Avenue, Launceston Place and Kensington Place restaurants to D&D's stable and was the first major deal carried out by D&D since FSI advised the D&D team on their MBO in 2006
• Essential Lighting Group, the UK's premier event lighting organisation and a leader in the European live events market, to Australian publicly listed Staging Connections Group Plc, an international event service business based in more than 100 worldwide locations
• Daniel Stewart & Company Plc on the acquisition by AIM listed Ekay Plc of WFCA Integrated Limited, a placing and the readmission of Ekay Plc to trading on AIM
• JMFinn Capital Markets Limited on the admission of Minoan Group Plc, the leisure resort development company, to AIM with a market capitalisation of £45 million
• the founder of the UK's leading supplier of licensed character clothing, Blues Clothing on a management buy-out of the majority interest backed by Penta Capital and Allied Irish Bank.  Blues supplies clothing using characters including Disney, Spiderman, Bratz and Power Rangers
• AIM listed ADDleisure Plc on a £6.7 million equity investment by BUPA
• Asgard (a fund managed by AXA Real Estate Managers Limited) and CareCapital Group Plc on their £7.5 million placings and admission to AIM with a maket capitalisation of £23 million