| Date | Sector | Client | Transaction | Details |
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| February 2013 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Gresham Private Equity, Management and other shareholders of 7city Learning on its sale to Fitch Group Read More |
| January 2013 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Energy Publishing on its sale to IHS Inc. Read More |
| December 2012 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Exclusive Analysis on its sale to IHS Inc. Read More |
| November 2012 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Mekentosj on its sale to Springer Science+Business Media. Read More |
| September 2012 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Sagient Research Systems on its sale to Informa Business Information Read More |
| July 2012 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Wood Mackenzie on a recapitalisation which has been signed with Hellman & Friedman for a majority stake in Wood Mackenzie. Read More |
| December 2011 | Financial Services |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Firstassist Legal Expenses on its sale to Burford Capital Limited Read More |
| November 2011 | Financial Services |
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Acquisition | Advised Virgin Group on the acquisition of Northern Rock Plc by Virgin Money. Read More |
| August 2011 | Healthcare & Fitness |
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Sale | Advised Virgin Group on its sale of a majority stake in Virgin Active to CVC Capital Partners. |
| August 2011 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Doctors.net.uk Limited, the largest and most active professional network of doctors in the UK, on its sale to M3 USA, part of M3, Inc., a publicly traded company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange providing interactive content to the life science industry. Read More |
| August 2011 | Financial Services |
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Investment | Advised TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P. on its investment in CapQuest Group Limited, a major investor in and servicer of performing and non-performing consumer receivables. Read More |
| July 2011 | Consumer Goods |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Original Additions on its sale to LDC. Read More |
| June 2011 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Ascend Worldwide on its sale to Reed Business Information. Read More |
| June 2011 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of the Steel Business Briefing Group on its sale to Platts (a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies). Read More |
| June 2011 | Financial Services |
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Acquisition | Advised TDR Capital on its acquisition of Lowell Group Limited, the largest UK debt purchasing firm, from Exponent Private Equity. Read More |
| April 2011 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of ODS-Petrodata on its sale to IHS Inc. Read More |
| January 2011 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised BENTEK Energy on its sale to Platts (a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies). Read More |
| September 2010 | Infrastructure |
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Variation | Advised James Walker (Leith) Ltd, the SPV appointed by Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust, on two variations to the Highbury Healthcare project. |
| September 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Access Intelligence on the sale of its Chemical and Energy Product Portfolio to IHS. Read More |
| September 2010 | Education |
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Financing | Advised Forth Valley College on £8m of funding to support its campus development. |
| August 2010 | Media & Technology |
The Cartwright Group
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of the Cartwright Group on the sale of its Canada Law Book division to Thomson Reuters. Read More |
| August 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Arete Consulting Limited on its sale to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. Read More |
| July 2010 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Bedfordshire in relation to its contract with Campus Living Villages for provision of 850 bed student residences. Read More |
| June 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Complinet on the sale to Thomson Reuters. Read More |
| June 2010 | Education |
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Financing | Advised Durham University on £70m of funding to support its strategic capital expenditure programme. |
| June 2010 | Infrastructure |
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NPD | Advised, the Morgan Sindall/Robertson Capital Projects consortium, Tayside NHS Board and North of Scotland Planning Group's preferred bidder, on a £95m NPD to provide mental health facilities in Perth and Angus. Read More |
| June 2010 | Education |
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Acquisition & PFI termination | Advised Forth Valley College on acquisition of the special purpose company that owned and operated its Stirling campus. |
| May 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Point Carbon on the sale to Thomson Reuters. Read More |
| May 2010 | Energy & Renewables |
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Raising project finance | Advised the project company on raising and structuring project finance for a 73MW on-shore wind farm near Stravanger, Norway. |
| May 2010 | Education |
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Financing | Advised University of the West of Scotland on £26.5m of funding to support its residences construction. |
| April 2010 | Retail |
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Acquisition | Advised Advent on the acquisition of DFS. Read More |
| April 2010 | Retail |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Cath Kidston on the sale of a majority stake to TA Associates. Read More |
| April 2010 | Financial Services |
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Investment | Advised the Virgin Group on the £100m investment by W L Ross & Co LLC in Virgin Money Holdings (UK) Ltd. Read More |
| March 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised The Nielsen Company on the sale of its Retail Food Group to Stagnito Inc. Read More |
| March 2010 | Healthcare & Fitness |
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Acquisition | Advised Virgin Healthcare on its acquisition of a majority shareholding in Assura Medical Limited, from Assura Group. Read More |
| March 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised The Nielsen Company on the sale of its Business Media Travel Group to Northstar Travel Media LLC. Read More |
| February 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Medley Global Advisors on its sale to the Financial Times, a subsidiary of Pearson. Read More |
| January 2010 | Financial Services |
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Takeover offer | Advised Virgin Money on its £12.3m takeover offer for Church House Trust Plc, a UK regional private bank. Read More |
| January 2010 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised The Nielsen Company on the sale of its B2B media and entertainment group to e5 Global Media. Read More |
| January 2010 | Mobile Telecommunications |
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Investment and Joint Venture | Advised First Eastern on its investment in, and Asia Pacific Joint Venture with, Monitise plc. |
| January 2010 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Canmore Partnership Ltd, the project sponsor appointed by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, on its financing of a £20m extension to the New Victoria & Stobhill Hospital. Read More |
| December 2009 | Education |
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Loan funding | Advised Jewel & Esk College on £50m debt fund raising. |
| December 2009 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of New Energy Finance on its sale to Bloomberg L.P. Read More |
| December 2009 | Infrastructure |
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PFI | Advised CLP, Blackpool City Council's preferred bidder, on financing its contract to replace or improve, and maintain street lighting in the Blackpool area. Read More |
| November 2009 | Support Services |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Submersible Technology Services on its sale to Neptune Marine Services for a £22m. Read More |
| November 2009 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Exeter on the development of 2400 bed residences on campus. |
| September 2009 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Exeter in relation to its £133m contract with University Partnerships Programme for provision of 980 bed student residences. Read More |
| September 2009 | Education |
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Financial analysis | Financial analysis of research park - Heriot-Watt University/Scottish Enterprise commercialisation options. |
| September 2009 | Education |
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Financing | Advised on additional funding arrangements to support the implementation of Middlesex University's Business Plan. |
| August 2009 | Support Services |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Storm on the sale of 51% of the company to 19 Entertainment. |
| July 2009 | Media & Technology |
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Acquisition | Advised WRBM on the acquisition of Decision News Media, a French digital business which publishes websites. |
| June 2009 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Reading on the funding of its residences programme. |
| June 2009 | Financial Services |
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Acquisition | Advised Peter Simon and his acquisition vehicle, Honister Capital, on the acquisition of the principal business assets of The Money Portal, the UK's leading independent IFA network, by means of a pre-packaged administration. Read More |
| May 2009 | Infrastructure |
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Strategic review | Performance and Financial Management Review of Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. |
| May 2009 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised Liverpool John Moores University on arrangement of funding to support its estates development programme. |
| May 2009 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Detailed option appraisal and advice on University of the West of Scotland's student residence procurement strategy. |
| April 2009 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Cengage Learning on the sale of its European distance learning businesses, ICS in the UK and NTI in the Netherlands, to Cornelsen. Read More |
| April 2009 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Nielsen on the sale of its Sao Paulo-based trade shows, to Nürnberg Messe GmbH. Read More |
| April 2009 | Education |
Banff & Buchan College
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Business Case and debt funding | Advised Banff & Buchan College on a business case with associated procurement and debt funding advice for the development of its estates strategy. |
| March 2009 | Infrastructure |
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PFI | Advised Robertson Capital Projects, NHS Lothian's appointed preferred bidder, on financing a new £18m Community hospital to be situated at Mayshade South, near Bonnyrigg in Scotland. Read More |
| February 2009 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advice in relation to the University's residential strategy. |
| January 2009 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised JMI, the owner of Concept Media, a producer and distributor of award-winning education media for colleges, healthcare institutions, social service agencies and counselling centers worldwide, on the sale of the business to Delmar. |
| October 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on the sale of BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, to Springer Science+Business Media. |
| September 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on the $8m sale of Pyramid Research to United Business Media. Read More |
| September 2008 | Education |
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Full Business Case | Advised on Forth Valley College's £60m Full Business Case. |
| September 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Pearson Plc on the sale of Heinemann Global Library to Capstone Press Inc. |
| September 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Cengage Learning on the sale of Paraninfo S.A., one of Spain's best-known vocational publishers, to Ediciones Nobel. Read More |
| September 2008 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Bedfordshire on a £35m, 800 bed residences development in Luton and provided ongoing advice and financial modelling with respect to campus masterplan. |
| September 2008 | Education |
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Option appraisal | Evaluation of Harper Adams University College's student residence procurement options. |
| August 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on the sale of Brook Hunt, a market leading UK-based provider of analysis and advice on mining and metals markets, to Wood Mackenzie. Read More |
| August 2008 | Industrial |
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Corporate restructuring and fund raising | Advised Brompton Bicycle Limited on a £9m management and shareholder restructuring plan, involving a Company share buy-back, managment options, purchases and sales by existing shareholders and investment by third parties. |
| May 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Key Curriculum Press, a subsidiary of Springer Science+Business Media, on the sale of its higher education division to John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
| May 2008 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of Abertay on development of £20m residences provision for 450 beds. |
| May 2008 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Funding Council on procurement and project structuring issues for a new Sports Centre. |
| May 2008 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised University of Strathclyde on procurement and funding alternatives for a new building for the Faculty of Education, and modelled comparator. |
| May 2008 | Education |
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Option appraisal | Advised University of Liverpool on the evaluation of options for their residences strategy. |
| May 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Springer on the sale of Minerva, one of the foremost providers of information to libraries in Central Europe, to EBSCO Information Services. |
| April 2008 | Infrastructure |
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Outline Business Case | Produced an Outline Business Case for City of Edinburgh Council on redevelopment of Haymarket station and Transport Interchange. Read More |
| April 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Acquisition | Advised Hearst Business Media on the acquisition of Map of Medicine from Informa. Read More |
| April 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Pearson on the sale of EAS Emotional Assessment System, the mental health diagnostic test, to Treatment Online. |
| April 2008 | Education |
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Financing | Advised a charitable trust connected to University of Westminster on £18m funding for the development of further student residences and the subsequent refinancing of the loan by the University. |
| April 2008 | Education |
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Financing | Advised University of Westminster on funding its medium term residences strategy. |
| April 2008 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised University of the Arts, London on procurement and funding options for new student residences. |
| March 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Equity raising | Advised this leading provider of online regulatory solutions for the global financial services industry on the sale of a minority stake to Fidelity Equity Partners. Read More |
| March 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Heren Energy, a leading publisher of European gas, power and carbon market information on the company's acquisition by Reed Business Information. Read More |
| March 2008 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised Perth College in respect of its £3m student residence development programme on the main campus at Crieff Road. |
| February 2008 | Property |
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Strategic review | Review of The EDI Group. Read More |
| February 2008 | Education |
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Debt funding | Advised Edinburgh's Telford College on refinancing and hedging for the new £70m campus building on the Edinburgh waterfront, having advised on their initial fund raising. |
| February 2008 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised the Local improvement finance trust initiative led by North Tyneside Primary Care Trust together with Newcastle City Council, North Tyneside Council and Partnerships for Health on one of the first wave of LIFT projects. QM has advised the project sponsor over three phases to date. Read More |
| January 2008 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised JTT Holdings Inc. on the sale of Soliloquy Learning, the reading & language technology company, to Scientific Learning. Read More |
| January 2008 | Education |
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Full Business Case | Full Business Case for Glasgow Nautical College's new Seamanship and Rescue Centre. Also advised on funding alternatives for new student residence facilities. |
| January 2008 | Infrastructure |
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MEIP Study | Market Economy Investor Principle study on the proposed development of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. |
| January 2008 | Travel & Leisure |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on the sale of Soho House to Richard Caring for £105m and advised Nick Jones on the new shareholders' agreement. Read More |
| December 2007 | Education |
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Debt funding | Advised Cardonald College on £21m debt funding having advised on their Full Business Case. |
| December 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Thomson on the sale of GEE, a leading provider of UK regulatory & compliance information & solutions, to Wolters Kluwer UK. Read More |
| December 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Questel S.A., a leading European intellectual property management company, on its acquisition by SG Capital Europe. Read More |
| December 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of The McCloskey Group Ltd, the world's largest coal markets information, publishing and research firm, on its sale to IHS Inc. Read More |
| November 2007 | Financial Services |
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Fund raising | Advised the Duncton Group on a new warehouse facility and associated £65m equity fundraising. Read More |
| November 2007 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised Trinity College on cost benefit analysis of proposals for a new £70m Biosciences Institute. |
| November 2007 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised The Robert Gordon University on funding alternatives to support medium term estates planning and further development of the Garthdee campus. |
| October 2007 | Education |
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Residences option appraisal | Advised Heriot-Watt University on funding and procurement alternatives for new and existing residences. |
| October 2007 | Travel & Leisure |
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IPO | Advised the controlling shareholder in relation to Soho China's £820m listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. |
| October 2007 | Travel & Leisure |
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Acquisition | Advised Virgin Holidays on the acquisition of Fast Track Holidays, a ski and cruise holiday specialist. Read More |
| October 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on their sale of Amaze TV, the factual entertainment producer, to a pan-European media group backed by Palamon Capital Partners. Read More |
| September 2007 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised Edinburgh College of Art on the acquisition of new build office space to complement existing campus, and arranged associated funding. |
| September 2007 | Education |
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Loan funding | Advised South Lanarkshire College on £15m bridge and term debt funding. |
| September 2007 | Retail |
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Takeover | Advised Peter Simon and his bidding vehicle, Drillgreat Limited, on the £755m take-private of Monsoon PLC. |
| August 2007 | Education |
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Business Case and debt funding | Advised Stevenson College on business case preparation and subsequent £20m funding aspects. |
| July 2007 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Robertson Capital Projects, NHS Forth Valley's preferred bidder, on a £20m project to centralise hospital services on one site with a new community hospital and a new health centre, including three GP practices, community nursing services and a range of primary care facilities. Read More |
| July 2007 | Infrastructure |
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Strategic advice & OBC | Advised on HM Naval Base, Clyde, Faslane's estates development plan and outline business case. |
| July 2007 | Travel & Leisure |
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Takeover | Advised Trainline and its shareholder, Exponent Private Equity, on its recommended £18.7m cash offer for Advanced Smartcard Technologies plc. |
| July 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Fund raising | Advised Target Entertainment Limited in raising £6 million of equity from Electra Quoted Management to assist in the funding of the acquisition of Minotaur International Limited. |
| July 2007 | Healthcare & Fitness |
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Fund raising | Advised Virgin Lifecare on a $24m fundraising and new long-term incentive plan for management. |
| July 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Piatkus, publisher of UK lifestyle titles and commercial fiction, on its sale to Little, Brown Book Group, part of the Hachette Livre UK Group. Read More |
| June 2007 | Infrastructure |
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Acquisition | Study of the extension to the Bioquarter development outside Edinburgh on behalf of Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian. |
| June 2007 | Fashion & Luxury Goods |
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Development capital | Advised luxury jewellery company, Stephen Webster Ltd, in connection with a development capital investment by Yucaipa Global Fund LLP. Read More |
| June 2007 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised University of Liverpool on funding and hedging the acquisition of a new £14m plant by the University's Electricity Company. |
| June 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Central Banking Publications, a supplier of information to senior central bankers and financial regulators, on its acquisition by Incisive Media. |
| June 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. on the acquisition of the company's assets by Rizzoli International Publications Inc. |
| June 2007 | Retail |
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Advisory to management | Advised Cath Kidston management on the design and implementation of a management incentive scheme. |
| May 2007 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised BAM PPP, Metropolitan Borough Council's successful bidder, on this £61m Building Schools for the Future project in Solihull. |
| May 2007 | Retail |
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Sale | Advised Virgin Group on the sale of its record store business to management. Read More |
| May 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Acquisition | Advised The Royal Opera House on its £7.7m acquisition of Opus Arte UK Ltd., a classical music and dance DVD production and distribution company. Read More |
| May 2007 | Infrastructure |
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Competitive tendering | Prepared a mock tender as a benchmark for the evaluation of tenders to The Scottish Government for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services. Read More |
| May 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised shareholders on the sale of Eaglemoss Publishing Group to a trade buyer with financial backing from a private equity firm. Read More |
| May 2007 | Education |
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Loan funding | University of Aberdeen - Advised on the arrangement of loan facilities to support the University's medium term capital expenditure programme and the provision of interest rate hedging advice. |
| April 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Western Institutional Review Board, the acknowledged gold standard in the growing field of regulated review services on its acquisition by Boston Ventures Private Equity. |
| April 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the Wisden Group on the sale of The Wisden Cricketer, the world's leading cricket magazine and The Oldie. |
| April 2007 | Financial Services |
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Equity raising | Advised the founders of Prime Rate Capital Management on raising equity to launch the company. |
| March 2007 | Infrastructure |
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Strategic advice | Advised Scottish Borders Council on a property rationalisation exercise. |
| February 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Haynes Publishing on the £3m sale of Sutton Publishing to Nonsuch Publishing. Read More |
| February 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised shareholders on the sale of Art & commerce to IMG Group. |
| February 2007 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Robertson Capital Projects, the consortium appointed by Dundee City Council, on financing delivery of two secondary and six primary schools using an index-linked bond. Read More |
| February 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Transaction Publishers on the sale of 29 journals including the flagship journal, Society, to Springer Science+Business Media. |
| January 2007 | Media & Technology |
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Equity raising | Advised Amaze, a factual entertainment producer. |
| January 2007 | Retail |
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Takeover | Advised Virgin Group on its recommended offer for the shares in Victory Corporation PLC that it did not already own. |
| December 2006 | Education |
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Business Case | Advised Glasgow School of Art on business case preparation. |
| December 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Negotiated on behalf of PFICo an option to purchase from Hochtief PPP Solutions 49% of a portfolio comprising equity in five education projects in the UK plus Cork School of Music in Ireland. Read More |
| December 2006 | Education |
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Hedging advice | Advised on the University of St Andrews' interest rate hedging strategy. |
| December 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Along with Goldman Sachs, advised VNU on the sale of this business to 3i for €325m. |
| November 2006 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Robertson Capital Projects on financing six new primary schools and one secondary with a capital value of £43m. |
| November 2006 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised Royal Holloway College on the potential acquisition of a site for expansion of its campus. |
| October 2006 | Property |
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Strategic review | Review of City of Edinburgh Council Holdings' strategic options as sole shareholder of The EDI Group. |
| October 2006 | Education |
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Student accommodation | Advised on selecting preferred providers of 2,500 residences over the next 5 years to support Bournemouth University's £85m accommodation project. |
| September 2006 | Healthcare & Fitness |
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Acquisition | Advised Virgin Active on its acquisition of Holmes Place's UK business in a transaction that valued the enlarged group at £650m. QM also advised on the ongoing shareholder arrangements resulting from the new minority interest in Virgin Active. |
| September 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Acted for PFICo in the secondary purchase of a police station project in Cumbria from the original sponsors, including Thomas Armstrong Group. |
| September 2006 | Education |
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Business Case | Advised on Dundee College's Full Business Case preparation and subsequent procurement stages. |
| September 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Acted for PFICo in the secondary purchase of Workington Community Hospital project from the original sponsors, including Thomas Armstrong Group. |
| September 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Granada Learning on the £12.4m sale of Letts and Leckie & Leckie to Huveaux Plc. Granada Learning is a Veronis Suhler Stevenson investment. Read More |
| August 2006 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Canmore Partnerships the successful bidder on this substantial project, a major component in the modernisation of healthcare in Glasgow. |
| August 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Thomson Learning on the sale of K. G. Saur Verlag, a leading publisher in the international academic, biographical, and bibliographical reference market, to Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG. Read More |
| August 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Sibelius Software Ltd, market leader in music notation software, on its acquisition by Avid Technology Inc. Read More |
| July 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders on the sale of the LibraPharm Ltd, publisher of Current Medical Research and Opinion and three journals in the medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, to Informa Healthcare for £21.5m. Read More |
| July 2006 | Education |
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Estates funding | Advised on procurement aspects of Glasgow City Centre Colleges project. |
| July 2006 | TMT |
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Private equity sale | Advised Virgin Group on the £163m sale of its online train ticket retailing business, thetrainline.com. QM advised on all aspects of the deal, and ran the auction process that resulted in the sale of the business to Exponent Private Equity. |
| July 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Acting for PFICo, invested equity in Argyll & Bute schools project covering a total of 11 new schools, including one added after the first financial close in a major contract variation. This was the first public-private partnership to be structured on a non-profit distributing model. |
| July 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Acting for PFICo, invested equity in East Ayrshire schools project, comprising secondary school campuses and one primary school. |
| July 2006 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised the consortium led by Skanska which won the competition to deliver seven new primary schools in Midlothian. |
| June 2006 | TMT |
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Takeover | Advised Virgin Group on the takeover by NTL of its quoted subsidiary, Virgin Mobile for £960m. |
| June 2006 | Healthcare & Fitness |
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Refinancing | Advised the Virgin Active group on a £90m releveraging of its South African subsidiary and assisted with the tax efficient structuring of repatriating proceeds to the UK. |
| June 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Hodder Headline on the sale of the journals list of Hodder Arnold, a sub-division of Hodder Education, which in turn is a division of Hodder Headline, a company in the Hachette Livre Group, to SAGE Publications. Read More |
| May 2006 | Travel & Leisure |
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Placement | Advised The Bunker Secure Hosting on raising private equity growth capital. Foresight Venture Partners were the equity providers. |
| May 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Strategic review | Acting on behalf of the Forestry Commission, procurement of a private sector JV partner to develop the Forest Holidays business. |
| May 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Along with Mediobanca, advised the shareholders on the sale of 80% of leading Italian educational publishing company, Paravia Bruno Mondadori Editori to Pearson. Read More |
| April 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised ITV on the divestment of the subsidiary Granada Learning to Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Read More |
| April 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Fund management equity | Acting for PFICo, invested equity in Stirling schools project for six new schools. |
| April 2006 | Education |
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Loan funding | Advised on the arrangement of loan facilities to support the University of Aberdeen's medium term capital expenditure programme and the provision of interest rate hedging advice. |
| April 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised Granada Learning on the £4.64m divestment of David Fulton Publishers to Informa. |
| March 2006 | Infrastructure |
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Strategic review | Financial evaluation of the tenders submitted to The Scottish Government for the Northern Isles Ferry Services. |
| March 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Sale | Advised the shareholders of Philip Allan Updates, a secondary school publisher for A-level and GSCE markets, on its sale to Hodder Headline, a member of the Hachette Livre Group Read More |
| March 2006 | Infrastructure |
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PPP | Advised Hochtief, preferred bidders on North Ayrshire schools project, on financing four new schools. |
| January 2006 | Media & Technology |
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Equity raising | Advised iParadigms, a market leader in plagiarism detection. Read More |
| January 2006 | Luxury Goods |
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Demerger | Advised on the overall structure and implementation of the demerger of Cath Kidston Limited and Lulu Guinness Holdings Limited, including sale of partly paid shares, debt-for-equity swap and rights issue. |