UK consulting agency Continuum has employed a senior dealmaker to its crew. Andrew Gould brings greater than 20 years of expertise to the agency, and can begin his function in early 2024.
Founded by Chair Cahal Dowds and Senior Managing Directors Garth Hackshall, Simon Barrass and Anurag Verma in 2022, Continuum Advisory Partners is an unbiased consultancy. It focuses on the monetary providers sector, and mergers and acquisitions work. In the 12 months since its launch, Continuum has grown to a crew of 35 employees in its London workplace.
This has already helped Continuum has advise on numerous important insurance coverage and wealth transactions. These embody being unique monetary advisor to Markerstudy Group Holdings on its merger with Atlanta Group, Ardonagh’s private traces broking business, to create a serious new participant within the UK insurance coverage market; and being unique monetary advisor to Correlation on the sale of Animal Friends Insurance to Pinnacle Pet Group, a number one pet insurance coverage middleman within the UK.
Looking to assist hold Continuum on this development monitor, the agency has appointed a brand new senior managing director. Andrew Gould joins from Deloitte, taking on the brand new function within the first half of 2024.
Garth Hackshall, certainly one of Continuum’s founding companions and CEO, commented, “We see tremendous opportunity to grow and continue hiring top talent. Our successes, including our ability to attract the sector’s best advisors, show that the market is ready for something different: an independent advisory firm focused solely on the best client outcomes delivered with trust, independent thought and integrity. Andrew fits our ethos of winning the right way, and we’re excited to work with him.”
An skilled monetary providers banker with 20 years’ expertise advising on M&A and fund-raising, his experience contains advising insurers, MGAs, brokers, expertise and repair suppliers to the non-public, industrial and specialty traces insurance coverage markets. Most just lately, he was a accomplice primarily based in Deloitte’s London workplace.
The appointment comes because the UK M&A market seems poised to show a nook. Following 18 months of lacklustre business, a mounting physique of proof means that 2024 will as soon as once more see a growth of offers throughout the nationwide market – as companies look to spice up their outcomes by means of acquisition campaigns.
