Hot on the heels of three landmark insurance coverage and wealth administration offers, Continuum Advisory Partners (“Continuum”) hires two new Senior Managing Directors. The impartial company advisory agency has signed up monetary providers bankers Duncan Buck from Fenchurch Advisory Partners, and Andrew Gould from Deloitte, which can take the agency’s headcount to 35 workers since opening its doorways earlier this yr.
Duncan Buck
Duncan Buck is about to start out as Senior Managing Director in early 2024. A number one monetary providers banker with over 25 years’ M&A expertise, he’ll focus totally on advising shoppers within the insurance coverage sector.
Duncan has been at Fenchurch since 2012, the place he was a Senior Managing Director and Vice Chairman. Prior to Fenchurch, he was a founding father of Lexicon Partners, which he helped build from 2000 to 2011 when the business was bought to Evercore.
Andrew Gould
Andrew Gould will be a part of Continuum as a Senior Managing Director in H1 2024. An skilled monetary providers banker with 20 years’ expertise advising on M&A and fund-raising, his experience consists of advising (re)insurers, MGAs, brokers, expertise and repair suppliers to the private, industrial and specialty traces insurance coverage markets.
Andrew joins from Deloitte, the place he was a Partner primarily based of their London workplace,
Duncan and Andrew have suggested on over 150 M&A transactions for a broad vary of shoppers together with massive corporates, entrepreneurs, personal fairness and different institutional buyers primarily based within the UK and internationally.
So far this yr Continuum has suggested on quite a lot of important insurance coverage and wealth transactions, together with:
- Exclusive 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;
- Exclusive 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; and
- Lead monetary advisor to Titan Wealth Holdings, the UK primarily based wealth consolidator, on its funding from Parthenon Capital, the Boston primarily based personal fairness agency.
Garth Hackshall, one in every of Continuum’s founding companions and CEO, mentioned: “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. Duncan and Andrew fit our ethos of winning the right way, and we’re excited to work with them.”
