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PKF Smith Cooper's Corporate Finance division win 'SME Advisory Team of the Year' award
The Corporate Finance team at business advisory and accountancy firm PKF Smith Cooper has been named ‘SME Advisory Team of the Year’ at Insider’s Midlands Dealmakers Awards 2022, following a near-record year of dealmaking and ‘exceptional results in Midland SME transactions’.
The PKF Smith Cooper team triumphed over eight other industry-leading companies to win the title on Thursday 22ndSeptember at the official awards ceremony in Birmingham. The team was praised by Insider for ‘delivering exceptional results in Midland SME transactions’ and bringing deals from outside the region to local advisers and funders.
The team also made the shortlist for an additional six Dealmakers awards: Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year, International Deal of the Year, SME Deal of the Year, Mid-Market Deal of the Year, Emerging Dealmaker of the Year, and Dealmaker of the Year Award.
PKF Smith Cooper’s award success follows a near-record year for dealmaking for the Corporate Finance team, which already has a string of accolades to its name. Based at offices in Nottingham, Birmingham and Derby, the team operates across a variety of industries, helping business owners to buy, sell and grow, and specialising in high intensity projects on deals typically up to £50m.
David Crump, Corporate Finance Director at PKF Smith Cooper, commented: “We’re incredibly proud to be recognised as SME Advisory Team of the Year; this is a fantastic accolade and is testament to the team’s tireless efforts to create and deliver innovative deals year after year. As a team, we pride ourselves on providing our clients with practical, robust and commercial advice, and are delighted that this has been recognised again in 2022. We continue to see a good level of M&A activity and look forward to working with the professional and financial community to deliver more great deals.”
Darren Hodson, Corporate Finance Partner at PKF Smith Cooper, said: “This achievement not only demonstrates the talent and expertise of our Corporate Finance division but also the tenacity and hard work that every member of our team brings to each project. We’re proud to receive further recognition as an industry leader in the Midlands, especially after experiencing a year of almost record-high dealmaking activity at PKF Smith Cooper.”
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An ambitious business and multi award-winning firm, we are the home of PKF in the Midlands. The region’s leading firm of trusted accountants and business advisors, we operate across key geographies in Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Ashbourne.
Through our membership of PKF International, the large network of legally independent accounting firms and 11th largest network here in the UK, we are at the forefront of compliance regulations and specialise in providing high quality solutions.
Working in unison with PKF member firms across the world, we blend local expertise and extensive territorial knowledge to provide a full range of audit, accountancy, tax and advisory services in line with the expectations and needs of the market.
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PKF Smith Cooper is one of the largest independently owned and preferred accountancy and business advisory firms for owner managed businesses across the Midlands. The firm specialises in providing intelligent, efficient and cost-effective bespoke advisory services to both corporate and individual clients. Smith Cooper has six offices across the Midlands including Derby, Birmingham and Nottingham.
