ICFG UK / HMT advises on the debt raising for EnSilica PLC
Wendy has over 30 years’ experience as a Corporate Finance Adviser, 22 of them as Corporate Finance Partner for Grant Thornton UK LLP. She joined HMT as a Partner in March 2021. She has completed more than 200 deals across a wide range of sectors, but with a strong focus on technology and tech-enabled businesses.
Experience
Wendy began her career with Grant Thornton in Oxford where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992. She was promoted to Corporate Finance Partner in 1999 and in addition to over 200 successful deal completions, she founded Grant Thornton’s Technology Practice and was also Managing Partner of the firm’s Oxford office for several years. More recently she was an elected member on Grant Thornton’s Partnership Oversight Board.
Wendy is a well known and respected Corporate Finance Adviser with deep experience of both sell-side and buy-side advisory. She has transacted across a wide range of sectors from funeral directors to logistics and automotive to real estate, although she specializes in working with TMT businesses and has considerable expertise in advising IT services and software companies.
Wendy was voted “Corporate Finance Adviser of the Year” at the Thames Valley Deal Awards in both 2018 and 2020; the first woman to receive that accolade. In addition to the “day job”, she is a Governor at Cokethorpe School and a Non-Executive Director of The Oxfordshire LEP.
Education
Wendy graduated with a Modern History degree from Oxford University in 1988.
Life drives and passions
Corporate Finance does not lend itself to an abundance of downtime! Wendy has two adult daughters and a husband who manage to take up much of her spare time but she also enjoys walking her dog, reading and writing, planting things, seeing friends and family and planning holidays. She is passionate about history, travel and family and committed to improving diversity within the Corporate Finance community!
ICFG UK / HMT advises on the debt raising for EnSilica PLC
HMT, led by Director Neil Brown and Manager Jack Waterman, with support from Partner Wendy Hart and Director Ricky Lane, advised leading chip maker of mixed signal ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) EnSilica Plc (“EnSilica”) on their £9 million debt raise from Lloyds Bank Group.
RWE sell Ferrybridge engineering workshop to TGM Industrial Group
HMT LLP, led by Partner Wendy Hart and Director Arthur Munro-Faure advised global leader in renewable energy RWE on their disposal of Ferrybridge Engineering Workshop business to TGM Industrial, an integrated group of precision engineering and industrial manufacturing companies in the UK providing innovative solutions to a broad range of customers and sectors.
Intralink, the business development and innovation consultancy, completes £19.6m minority equity investment from Mobeus Equity Partners.
ICFG UK / HMT LLP, led by Partner Wendy Hart, Associate Director Arthur Munro-Faure, and Manager Ben Traves, has advised the shareholders of Intralink, an international business development and innovation consultancy, on their £19.6m minority investment from Mobeus Equity Partners.
Thanks to ICFG UK, Apollo Motor Group and Balgores Motors, two significant accident repair centre groups in Southern England complete their disposal to Steer Automotive Group
ICFG UK / HMT LLP, led by Partner Wendy Hart, Associate Director Arthur Munro-Faure, and Manager Joe Cassidy, has advised the shareholders of automotive repair groups Apollo Motor Group and Balgores Motors on their disposal to Steer Automotive Group.
ICFG UK advised Vuealta on their multi-million pound fundraising from YFM
ICFG member based in the UK, HMT LLP, has advised the shareholders of planning and forecasting software and services business Vuealta on their multi-million pound fundraising from YFM Equity Partners. |