Livingstone Guarantee announces launch of Synergy Corporate Finance

Livingstone Guarantee, the unquoted M&A boutique specialising in deals with values between £10m and £100m plus, has announced the launch of Synergy Corporate Finance (‘Synergy’). Synergy is a stand-alone corporate finance house, owned by Livingstone Guarantee, which specialises in selling unquoted companies with values of £3m to £10m plus. It was set up specifically to fill a gap in LG’s market. Barrie Pearson, the founding partner of LG and chairman of Synergy, says that LG was founded in the 1990s specifically to advise on small-scale deals but gradually found its average deal size rising to ‘£20m and beyond’, meaning that it found itself ‘turning away prospective clients with companies worth less than £10m’ – hence the launch of Synergy. The Synergy team is headed by directors Andrew Clarfield (formerly a deal leader for LG) and Nigel Morgan (formerly an assistant director in Deloitte & Touche’s London M&A team). A team of executives has been established and further staff are being actively recruited from outside LG.

Synergy is expected to occupy LG’s offices in the west end of London for up to 12 months before seeking its own premises. It will have access to LG’s substantial research capability, international M&A network and specialist sector teams.

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