Helping you achieve your strategic aims through acquisition, merger or the successful sale of your business...

Dains has a specialist and experienced corporate finance team committed to identifying, creating and maximising opportunities for your business. We work closely with you to anticipate your needs and guide you through any corporate finance project, from raising finance, due diligence, identifying and carrying out acquisitions through to grooming a business for sale as well as providing a comprehensive and expert  business sale process.

With access to a full range of support services, including tax advice – a critical area in determining the success of any deal, we offer proactive management of the deal process where our extensive experience of potential problems or issues that can occur means we can often offer innovative solutions.

Whatever your industry, our team will take time to understand what makes your business special and work closely with you through every step of the process. As you would expect, we have access to an extensive network of contacts to assist our clients in making deals happen. Our reputation is such that investors know we will only associate with credible, well-conceived proposals.

We work with businesses across a very diverse range of industry sectors and are happy to assist with corporate finance opportunities of any size. If you have an enquiry, we would be pleased to offer an unconditional, informal and free discussion of your plans and requirements.

This year Simon Bursell and the team triumphed winning three awards at Insider's prestigious East Midlands Dealmakers Dinner.   Simon picked up the principal award of the evening - ‘Dealmaker of the Year' for his work acting as lead advisor on the Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd acquisition of Lowe Alpine.  For the second consecutive year, Simon also picked up the prestigious - ‘Deal of the Year’ award for his work on Equip.  The team also won the award for ‘Advisory Team of the Year’. 

This firm is not authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 but we are able in certain circumstances to offer a limited range of investment services to clients because we are members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  We can provide these investment services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide.