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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
One of the Midlands’ most experienced dealmakers and co-founder of one of its largest boutiques has joined Headpoint Advisors. Andy Moore, a founding partner at Clearwater, has joined Birmingham-based Headpoint as a partner, bringing more than 30 years of corporate finance (CF) and mergers & acquisitions experience.
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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider-business-tv/video/atlantic-allies-navigating-us-uk-trade-breakfast Up to 75,000 jobs are at risk in the UK automotive industry if the government cannot convince Donald Trump to reduce tariffs on British-made cars, according to a major expert on the sector.
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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
Businesses need to 'drink the MAGA Kool-Aid’'and get out to the US if they want to overcome tariffs and sell to the world’s biggest economy, an Insider conference on transatlantic trade has been told. And yesterday's Atlantic Allies: Navigating US-UK Trade breakfast heard from the country's biggest chamber of trade that "tariffs should be seen as a temporary slowdown, not a stop sign."The conference, held in Birmingham, was generally upbeat about the possibility of trade with the US.
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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
Monarch Care Group, one of the Midlands' biggest care home operators, has been acquired by the owner of one of its largest peers, potentially creating a business with almost 2,000 staff across more than 30 homes. Nottingham-based Monarch has been bought by Sameer Rizvi of Birmingham-based RDCP Care Holdings. The deal sees an exit for Monarch shareholders Angela Bir, Amit Bir and Hiten Shanghav. Rizvi is founder and chief executive of London-based venture capital firm RD Capital Partners.
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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
https://www.insidermedia.com/insider-business-tv/video/midlands-cyber-security Most businesses score just "one out of ten" when it comes to the standard of their cybersecurity – despite the scale and sophistication of cyber attacks increasing rapidly and attacks being a matter of "when" rather than "if" – according to a panel of experts brought together by Insider.
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1 month ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
We’ve gone through the annual returns of more than 10,000 Midlands-registered businesses to find out who they are. And in this month’s magazine - out later this week - we name the Top 30 . To make the list, a company has had to have shown more than 20 per cent annual growth in turnover consistently over three years, according to their results Companies House. It also had to have started that period with at least £1m turnover.
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2 months ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
Mark Fox, chief executive of motorway services group Roadchef, has stepped down to be succeeded by a former boss of one of its biggest rivals. Fox, who has been chief executive of the Cannock-based business for seven years, has stepped back after being diagnosed with myelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer. He is being succeeded by Tim Gittins, who spent 16 years at rival Moto, holding senior roles such as strategy director and chief operating officer.
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2 months ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
One of the best-known legal names in Midlands dealmaking has been made head of the firm’s operations in the region. Jon Bew, who has been with the firm for five and a half years, succeeds real estate partner Beth McArdle and Alex Bishop, who acted as co-heads for five years. The national law firm employs about 300 people at its offices at 103 Colmore Row, a tower in central Birmingham. Bew joined Shoosmiths from Irwin Mitchell, where he was banking & finance partner.
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2 months ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
One of the best-known names in Midlands' dealmaking, former Eversheds Sutherland partner Mark Beardmore, has joined a private equity house being set up by three former leaders of LDC. Beardmore, who retired last year after a decade leading the corporate finance team at Eversheds in Birmingham, has taken on the role of general counsel at HGL Private Capital. Coventry-based HGL is being launched by three former LDC leaders - Chris Hurley, Ged Gould, and Andy Lyndon.
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2 months ago | 
insidermedia.com | Kurt Jacobs
Ten years ago, Manny Athwal was reduced to hiding in the toilets of a train because he could not afford the ticket home. Now, the Wolverhampton-based founder of the School of Coding & AI has built a business that is teaching tech skills in 17 countries and has gone from running after-school clubs to taking more than 1,000 students to degree level.
