Adrian Alexander is a corporate finance partner with Mazars LLP, the interna-tional accountancy and business advisory firm. Based in the Brighton office, he acts for owner-managed businesses, supporting them through major transactions, and is active in all the main corporate finance disciplines: sales, M&A, raising finance and investigation work.

Mazars acts for some of the fastest-growing entrepreneurial companies in the UK, offering a complete range of accountancy and business advisory services including audit and assurance, tax advisory and compliance, corporate recovery and insolvency, consulting, forensic and investigations, corporate finance and financial services for private individuals.

Simon Arthur is a partner in the corporate and commercial services team at Horsey Lightly Flynn solicitors, Newbury. He specializes in corporate transactional matters with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, equity raisings, corporate restructurings and non-contentious employment matters.

Horsey Lightly Flynn is a partner-led practice which can trace its London origins back to 1891. Through a number of strategic mergers and new partnerships, it now serves a growing list of ‘blue chip’corporations, smaller commercial businesses and private clients, nationally and internationally from offices in London, Newbury and Bournemouth.