CAs honoured in Deals and Dealmakers awards
4 Sep 08
Several chartered accountants were winners in the 11th annual Scottish Business Insider Deals & Dealmakers Awards on Wednesday night
Mike Brown CA, of Anderson, Anderson & Brown, was declared Dealmaker of the Year. His “tremendous track record” won the panel’s vote.
Deloitte celebrated a double award win when rising CA Aaron Fall claimed the Emerging Dealmaker of the Year nod, while Deloitte’s Corporate Financial Advisory was named the Dealmaking Team of the Year.
RMJM, the architecture practice whose managing director for Europe is Hugh Mullan CA, won the award for Acquisition of the Year for its $30m acquisition of US based Hiller Architecture.
Electromagnetic technology firm, MTEM won both the coveted Deal of the Year title and the award for Sale of the Year.
MTEM was launched to capitalise on technology developed at the University of Edinburgh to assess potential drilling sites for oil and gas exploration and sold within 30 months for £139m to Petroleum Geo-Services of Norway, making multi-millionaires of founders Anton Ziolowski and Bruce Hobbs.
The judges said it was “simply a great story for Scotland” and a “great example of value creation”.
The Royal Bank of Scotland claimed the title of Corporate Bank of the Year with judges being impressed by its “nimble-footedness” despite being such a big player in the Scottish corporate market.
More than 700 of the country’s leading corporate figures attended the prestigious awards organised to acknowledge and reward the achievements made in the past year by the cream of the country’s top dealmakers.
CAs also featured heavily in the judging panel, chaired by Derek Douglas CA, chief executive of Adam Smith and including fellow CAs Jann Brown, finance director of Cairn Energy, Stuart Ross, chief executive of Belhaven and Jack Perry, chief executive of the Scottish Enterprise.
The full list of winners is:
• Acquisition of the Year (sponsored by BMI) – RMJM Group Ltd’s $30m acquisition of US based Hiller Architecture.
• Sale of the Year (sponsored by Hamilton & Inches) – MTEM Ltd
• MBO/MBI of the Year (sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland) – Dominion Gas
• Flotation of the Year – Craneware plc
• Small/ Mid sized Deal of the Year (sponsored by Intrum Justitia) – Craneware plc
• Corporate Bank of the Year (sponsored by First People Solutions Group) – Royal Bank of Scotland
• Banker of the Year (sponsored by CMC Markets) – Jack Ogston, Clydesdale Bank
• Emerging Dealmaker of the Year (sponsored by Byrne Recruitment) – Aaron Falls, Deloitte
• Dealmaker of the Year (sponsored by Marsh) – Mike Brown, Anderson Anderson & Brown
• Dealmaking Team of the Year (sponsored by O2) – Deloitte LLP Corporate Financial Advisory
• Deal of the Year (sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers) – MTEM Ltd