Sectors

Cole Associates do not specialise in any one sector and have experience across a broad range of sectors. Examples of some completed transactions organised by sector can be seen by clicking on the list below.

Second Time Around - Cole Associates advises on sale to MBO team at 'Hidden Gem' Family-Owned Pipe Business

May 2024

Boole’s Tools & Pipe Fitting is under new leadership following the acquisition by the firm’s senior management team in a deal backed by its existing bank HSBC.

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Booles Tools website piece.pdf (148.89 KB)

Cole Associates advises Brownfield Solutions shareholders on sale to Celnor Group

Nov 2023

Jeremy Cole and Joe Russell of Manchester corporate finance boutique Cole Associates Corporate Finance have advised the shareholders of geo-environmental business, Brownfield Solutions Ltd on the sale of the company to Inflexion Private Equity-backed Celnor Group.

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BSL announcement.pdf (354.38 KB)

Management Buy-out for an Undisclosed Sum

Dec 2002

Led, structured and arranged by Cole Associates Corporate Finance

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AFT-Tombstone.pdf (483.4 KB)

Major New Force in the Energy Sector As Viterra Energy Services Limited has management buy-out

Jan 2004

A new challenger in the energy service sector has been created following the successful management buy-out of Viterra Energy Services Limited by the existing management team.

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Viterra Energy Services Limited.pdf (11.35 KB)

Partial management buy-out

Oct 2009

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hughes-beatty-mbo_0.pdf (33.88 KB)

Cole Associates secures growth funding for Bowdon Group

Aug 2014

David Middleton, partner at Cole Associates Corporate Finance, secured growth funding for Bowdon Group from the North West Fund for Loans, managed by FW Capital.

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Bowdon-Group.pdf (21.23 KB)

Cole Associates advises SCP Transport Shareholders on Sale to RSK Group

Jan 2022

RSK Group Ltd, a leading environmental, engineering and sustainability solutions providerhas strengthened its transport planning and infrastructure design capability with the acquisition of SCP (Singleton Clamp & Partners Ltd).

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SCP-Transport-18th-January-2022_0.pdf (204.82 KB)

Cole Associates advises WTaylor Group Limited on acquisition of Mak Services (2007) Limited

Apr 2016

WTaylor Group Limited is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Kidderminster based building services and HVAC contracting company MAK Services (2007) Limited.

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MAK-press-release.pdf (69.87 KB)

Cole Associates advises Bowdon Group on acquisition of Interface Contracts Limited

Aug 2018

Interface Contracts is an electrical engineering business specialising in the water industry and water to energy biomass projects with a turnover of £20 million.

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Interface.pdf (168.04 KB)

Cole Associates advises on Management Buy-Out of Boole's Tools and Pipe Fitting Ltd

Sep 2018

A multimillion-pound turnover steel tube supplier in Greater Manchester has undergone a successful management buyout (MBO) by the family which founded the company, who have bought it back from a listed builders' merchant.

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booles.pdf (524.5 KB)