Rainmaker Competition 2002

Initiative Europe is currently contacting the UK’s top corporate financiers to name the most prolific industry dealmakers for the Rainmaker Competition 2002. HgCapital and Initiative Europe administer the competition, which seeks potential winners in six different categories. The competition will seek to identify key individuals completing the highest number of buyouts in the £10-50m, £50-150m and the £150m+ ranges respectively.

As with last year’s contest, two time periods will be covered: the first will focus specifically on buyouts completed this year, while the second will include all private equity backed buyouts since 1999. Winners will be selected from each of the three size categories in each of the two time frames.

Last year’s Rainmaker Competition revealed three winners in the £10-£50m category with three deals apiece: Livingstone Guarantee’s Patrick Groarke, KPMG’s Anthony Vickery and Stephen Craik, also of KPMG. In the £50-£150m bracket Craik also won, alongside Mark Hodgkins of Ernst & Young, each having worked on two deals. In the £150m+ category, there was only one winner: Charles Milner of KPMG, for his role as rainmaker on BBA’s automotive friction division transaction. Over the period 1998-2000, KPMG’s Stephen Craik and Mark Farlow achieved pole position in the £10-£50m range; Mike Stevens at KPMG and Paul Lupton at PricewaterhouseCoopers won in the £50-£150m range; and in the £150m+ category, Peter Jacobs of PricewaterhouseCoopers took the prize. Taking into account all the £10m+ buyouts over the period from 1998 to 2000, Stephen Craik, of KPMG, initiated the most deals (ten).

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