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Richard is a Senior Consultant to Livingstone, with over 25 years experience in the City, at Kleinwort Benson and KPMG Corporate Finance. After graduating from Exeter University, Richard joined the Plessey Company, initially as a graduate trainee, and progressed via manufacturing to finance executive. Richard has extensive experience of AIM and Listed domestic and international complex corporate finance transactions, across a full range of sectors, and was both a UKLA “Suitably Experienced Employee” and AIM “Qualified Executive”. His experience includes flotations, rights issues and placings and a wide variety of “City Code”, restructuring and other M&A transactions.

Brian performs analysis, modeling, and research across the corporate finance transactions of the firm. Prior to joining Livingstone, he completed internships in real estate private equity and in General Electric’s Financial Management Program.

Education: BA, Northwestern University

Prior to joining Livingstone, Ryan worked for two years as an Analyst at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. in Chicago. He provided M&A, capital raise, financial restructuring, and strategic advisory services in a variety of sectors, including consumer products, food and beverage, manufacturing, metals, healthcare services, business services, and electrical products. Prior to BGL, Ryan worked as an analyst in the special situations group of Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services in Chicago.

Education: B.B.A., University of Michigan

Graham joined Livingstone from KPMG in 2005. He graduated from Durham University and is a member of The Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

Graham principally works within the Industrial Products and Services sector, where he has specialist knowledge of several niche sectors including: Aerospace & Defence; Energy; Medical Technology and Engineered products.


University College, Durham

After graduating from Durham University, Neil joined his family business, and was actively involved in the sale of that groups of companies in a cross-border deal. Neil has lived in Spain since 1985, and working in M&A since 1991. He was the founding partner of what is now Livingstone Spain. He has led deals in a variety of sectors, including construction products, industrial manufacturing, transport and logistics and food many of which have been international in nature. He has been responsible for a significant amount of leverage buy-outs. Neil currently heads the Retail and Leisure sector at Livingstone Spain. He speaks at several prestigious conferences in Spain and also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe's leading business schools.

After graduating from Manchester University with a first class honors degree, Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in London.

Since joining Livingstone Partners in 1994, Simon has led over 75 deals across a variety of sectors, acting for owner managers, corporate and private equity houses.

Whilst Simon co-heads the Consumer sector team, he continues to be actively involved in the Human Capital, Healthcare, and Technology sectors.


BA ACA

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Maryanne attended Monash University, gaining a Bachelor of Business & Commerce before working at KPMG Corporate Finance in the Debt Advisory Team. She then gained exposure to a variety of financial markets at Macquarie Bank in the Equity Capital Markets Team, and more recently at UBS Wealth Management and Asset Management. Maryanne is a member of Livingstone Partners’ Business Development team, working closely with the Industrial and Business Services sector teams.

Bachelor of Business & Commerce in Marketing and Management, Monash University, Australia

Marta has a degree in Business Studies and a Masters in Finance and Stock Exchange. Upon graduating she worked in the management department of a private bank. Since 2002 Marta has worked as an M&A analyst for Livingstone partners. Marta's work is focused on sector analysis, company valuations and project management especially in the food and drink, packaging and consumer products sectors.

Having completed his schooling in Australia, Daniel graduated from Oxford University in 2000. He then moved to the United States to join Tyco Electronics Corporation, the world's largest supplier of passive electronic components, where he worked as part of Tyco's in-house M&A team. Upon his return to the UK, Daniel joined Moore Stephens Corporate Finance, where he advised clients on a range of transaction types. He continued his education in his spare time, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) in 2004.

Daniel devotes most of his time to working in Livingstone's Consumer sector team, with a specific focus on Consumer Brands.

MA (Oxon)

Paul studied Law with French Law and Language at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and spent a year in France at l’Université Jean Moulin in Lyon. Upon graduating Paul joined James Cowper in Reading where he worked as an Auditor and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003. The following year Paul transferred to the firm’s Corporate Finance department where he worked on a variety of transactions for unquoted companies across a range of sectors. Paul joined Livingstone in January 2007.

LLB ACA

After graduating in Economics from Manchester University, Richard qualified as a solicitor before joining international City law firm Herbert Smith, where he practised as a corporate lawyer. Richard joined Livingstone Partners from KPMG Corporate Finance and is a seasoned transactor, who has advised on a broad range of both domestic UK and cross-border private and public corporate finance deals in a career stretching over 14 years. Richard’s clients have included GUS, Argos, BAT, the BBC, Trinity Mirror, Reuters, Saga Group and a wide variety of private equity houses and owner managed businesses. Richard teaches a course entitled "How to manage a Transaction" on the MBA course at INSEAD, Europe’s largest business school.

Karl brings six years of corporate finance, distressed M&A and restructuring experience to Livingstone, including both debtor and creditor representation. Prior to joining the firm, Karl worked as a Corporate Restructuring Vice President at Mesirow Financial Consulting and Corporate Recovery Senior Associate at KPMG.

Education: BBA, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Following graduation from Cambridge University and law school, Jeremy joined Clifford Chance, the international corporate law firm. Since qualifying as a lawyer in 1991 Jeremy has specialised in M&A in the public and private company arenas.

Jeremy joined Livingstone in 1993, he has led deals in a variety of sectors including defence and automotive engineering, printing and packaging, building products and consultancy.

Jeremy is primarily responsible for leading the firm's Business Services sector team but is also active in the media:tech sector. Jeremy has played an active role in developing Livingstone's international M&A capability.

MA

With a degree in Business Management and a Masters in Tax advice, Javier has worked in several national and multinational firms as Finance Director, in industries such as Advertising, Textile Manufacturing and Retail and Electronics. He joined the predecessor of Livingstone Spain in 1999, and he has completed numerous deals across a range of sectors, including manufacturing, software, and financial services. Drawing on his corporate experience, Javier primarily focuses on light manufacturing and services, and is responsible for the media and marketing services team.

Degree in Business Management and a Masters in Tax advice

Kristian joined BDO Stoy Hayward in 1998, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, working with entrepreneurial and owner-managed businesses.

In 2004 he joined KPMG's mid-market Corporate Finance team, where he focused on private equity transactions with clients including Candover, Exponent, Trinity Mirror and National Accident Helpline.

He was a member of the Healthcare and Support Services teams at KPMG prior to joining Livingstone in 2007.

Kristian now focuses on the Business Services sector team.

After gaining her Degree in Economic Sciences from Hasselt University (Belgium), Elena worked for over a year as a junior M&A consultant in the Netherlands (Strategy & Finance, B.V.) after which she moved back to Spain and joined in 2001 the Madrid team of Livingstone partners as an M&A executive and coordinator for the firm’s international projects. As deal originator for the company, Elena is responsible for the origination and development of national and international transactions with Livingstone Partners in its various territories. She has broad experience working with national and multinational clients on cross-border disposal and acquisition projects mainly in the Business Services sector (Facilities Management, Certification Services and Human Resources) and Industrial Manufac

Patrick qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in Dublin. He then joined multinational fruit distributor The Fyffes Group in London as Special Projects Accountant where he gained extensive operational and corporate finance experience working in the UK, USA and Spain.

Patrick has led a significant number of management buy-outs/buy-ins, acquisition and disposal assignments since joining in 1994. He has extensive experience in the Food, Print & Packaging, Manufacturing and Home and Building Products sectors.
He heads up Livingstone's Private Equity practise and co-heads Livingstone's Consumer team.

BCOMM ACA

David brings to Livingstone twelve years of investment banking, consulting, research and corporate development experience, primarily in the media:tech and telecom sectors. Prior to joining Livingstone, David worked as a Principal for RCBG, an M&A advisory firm, where he advised global technology, media, and telecom companies and Private Equity Groups on strategic acquisitions and divestitures. Previously, he held corporate and business development roles at Motorola, Level 3 Communications, and Airvana.

Education: BS. BA, University of Illinois MBA, Harvard Business School

After completing a BSc in Psychology at Teesside University, Michelle went on to complete an MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at Liverpool University.

Previously a business analyst at PPM Ventures, part of the Prudential, Michelle joined Livingstone in 2004 to work primarily as an analyst across Leisure and Marketing Services sectors. She has since moved into a Business Development role, working closely with team members to create deal and investment opportunities for Livingstone's clients.

Bsc, Msc

After graduating from Hatfield College, Durham University with a degree in Natural Sciences, Alex qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in London. During his time at KPMG, Alex gained extensive M&A tax and transaction services experience, with a particular focus on property and construction companies.

Alex joined Livingstone in January 2007, and works across a variety of sectors.

After graduating from Durham University in 1999, Christopher qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in London. During his five years at Ernst & Young, he gained extensive experience of the financial services industry, spending the last two years working in Mergers & Acquisitions.

Christopher joined Livingstone in 2005, and has since advised on numerous company disposals, acquisitions and private equity backed management buy-outs in the Consumer and Business Services sectors. Christopher is a member of the Consumer team and within that he leads the firm’s Retail sector team.

James joined Livingstone in 1999, having qualified as a lawyer at international law firm Cameron McKenna.

James has led in excess of 40 transactions comprising a range of disposals, acquisitions and MBOs for corporate, private equity and entrepreneurial clients, predominantly within the Business Services and Consumer sectors.

He is a member of Livingstone's Business Services and Consumer sector teams.


LLB

Steven graduated from the Universtiy of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) with a business degree and qualified as a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Andersen in San Francisco and Brussels. He earned an MBA from the London Business School. He has over 20 years experience as a finance director in the oilfield services, logistics and media sectors, where he was involved in a variety of strategic M&A transactions. Since he joined Livingstone in 2005, Steven has been involved in cross border deals involving the United States, England, Belgium and Germany. He has closed transactions in the business services sector and he has many contacts within the Spanish industrial sector.

Tim joined Livingstone in 1989 with experience of buying and selling companies as a principal.

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, he moved into a corporate development role with a number of international groups.

Tim has advised on over 100 deals at Livingstone with deal values of up to £200m ($400m). He has worked with owner-managers, listed and international groups, private equity houses and management teams on buying and selling businesses in sectors such as media:tech, Recruitment, Food and Financial Services. Tim is jointly responsible for Livingstone's media:tech team.

ACA

Bill has over 15 years of experience in investment banking, responsible for the generation and execution of financial adviory transactions including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt advisory, privatizations and special operations.

Before he joined Livingstone in 2008 as a Partner, Bill was Executive Director and founding member of the Madrid office of Lazard; Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions of Banco Central Hispanoamericano in Madrid and Senior Associate in Salomon Brothers International Ltd. in London.


Biochemical and Molecular Biology -University of Madrid MBA - IESE

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant at regional accountancy firm BKL, Harry worked for a subsidiary of UK leisure group Rank Group plc. Returning to BKL, he assisted in the eventual sale of the firm to Tenon Group plc. Harry was part of the Tenon team that acquired Livingstone in October 2001 and, when it concluded its buy-out from Tenon in 2003, he joined the Livingstone team. He plays an active role in assisting and supporting clients and transactions, in addition to advising Livingstone on all partnership financial matters.

Phillip joined Livingstone in 2006, having previously led Deloitte's Industrial Products team globally and having led transactions for corporate and private equity clients in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Australasia.

He has extensive experience of the Industrials sector, with specific experience of Packaging & Print and Automotive. Phillip co-leads the Industrial team.

Dan is a financial and research analyst at Livingstone. Prior to joining the firm, Dan was an analyst at Headwaters MB, a Denver-based investment banking advisory firm. There, he provided M&A and capital raise services in a variety of sectors, including consumer products and business services. Dan previously worked at UBS Investment Bank and Mesirow Financial.

Education: BA, Northwestern University

Jenny qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers after joining the firm from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. During her time at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jenny gained extensive experience in the insurance industry while completing the American Chartered Financial Analyst exams for global investment professionals.

In 2006, Jenny joined Livingstone after relocating to London and works across the firm's broad spectrum of sector specializations, with a particular emphasis on retail.

Steve leads Livingstone’s Industrial practice, and is also active in the Infrastructure and Environmental Services Sectors. He has 15 years of experience advising middle market companies on M&A transactions, financial restructurings, and debt and equity raises. Before co-founding Livingstone USA, Steve held the position of Managing Director at both Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. and Goldsmith Agio Helms & Co. Early in his career, Steve honed his experience working with middle market companies in a variety of capacities including leveraged finance at Bank of America, full service capital markets at Morgan Keegan, and principal activities at Harbour Group and Foundation Partners.

Education: BS, Accountancy, University of Missouri MBA, Olin School of Business, Washington University

Tom heads Livingstone’s Debt Capital Markets practice. He brings over nine years of middle market commercial finance experience to the firm. He was previously employed by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.

Education: BS, DePaul University MBA, University of Chicago (2010)

Connor joins Livingstone as a financial and research analyst from Billow Butler & Company, where he supported M&A and capital raising services in a variety of sectors, including consumer products and technology. He previously worked at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. and the Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group.

BS, Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University.

Jim leads Livingstone’s Healthcare practice. He has over a decade of experience working with entrepreneurial and large companies on financial and strategic projects, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements, debt issuances, financial statement audits, and consulting engagements. Most recently, Jim served as Director at Goldsmith Agio Helms (now Lazard Middle Market) and was an investment banking associate with Lehman Brothers. He began his career at Arthur Andersen.

Education: BS, University of Illinois College of Commerce MBA, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

After graduating from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Modern Languages, Jo gained commercial experience working for a number of companies prior to joining Livingstone in 1998 as a Research Assistant. Jo has extensive knowledge of the Business Services sector, including Consultancies, Facilities Management, Support Services and Logistics sectors.

BA

After graduating from University College, London with a degree in history in 1995, Tom joined the Financial Times Group, where he worked as a sector analyst. Since he joined Livingstone in 1998, Tom has led a number of transactions in a variety of different sectors and has developed considerable experience in the Consumer, Technology and Business Services sectors. Much of Tom's current role is focused on developing Livingstone's Food & Beverage, Human Capital and Technology sectors, leading transactions and generating deal opportunities.

Eva earned a degree in Administración y Dirección de Empresas from Universidad de Valencia, and has a Master in Quantitative Finance. She started her career in a family company, then she joined Bancaja working in the structuring of capital market financing transactions. In June 2006 she started working in the financial department of an important real estate group structuring the financing of transactions. Eva joined Livingstone in 2007.

Following completion of both a Bachelor of Business Studies (Universitat Ramon Llul, Barcelona) as well as a Masters in Corporate Finance & Law (ESADE, Barcelona), José Luis started his career as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Barcelona. He was quickly promoted to be a senior consultant in PwC Transaction Services department where he was actively involved in domestic and international due diligence processes in a wide range of sectors such as financial services, healthcare, general industry and technology. Prior to this, José Luis also worked in an insurance company, Aresa, and a financial institution, La Caixa de Pensions i Estalvis.

Tamara Scribante originally from South Africa, gained her BA (Law) LLB from the University of Stellenbosch in 2000 and then went on to do her professional legal training at the School for Legal Practice in 2001. She then accepted a role at Jennifer Mynhardt Attorneys in South Africa where she trained as a candidate attorney. In 2002, she moved to Dublin where she worked for Zurich Financial Services/Eagle Star as a legal consultant. A year later, Tamara moved to London to work as a paralegal in the litigation department handling a case portfolio of 220 fast and multi-track claims.

In 2004, Tamara took on yet another challenge as part of the Livingstone Business Development team and works across the firm's full spectrum of industry sectors specialisations.

BA (Law) LLB

With over 20 years' publishing experience gained at Caspian Publishing, EMAP, Haymarket and Reed Business Publishing, Andrea first looked after Livingstone’s marketing efforts while at Caspian in 2000. Andrea subsequently joined Livingstone in early 2007 as Marketing Director.

Andrea is responsible for developing and implementing Livingstone’s marketing and PR strategy, organising Livingstone's Conferences and Events and overseeing the production of all marketing collateral.

David leads Livingstone’s Private Equity practice and directs client engagements, specializing in the Consumer sector. With nearly ten years experience in investment banking, he has extensive cross-border and financial buyer expertise. Prior to co-founding Livingstone USA, he was a Managing Director at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. and spent four years at William Blair & Company. Previously, he was General Counsel to the Illinois Development Finance Authority and an advisor to Illinois Governor Jim Edgar.

Education: BS. BA, University of Illinois College of Commerce JD, University of Illinois College of Law

Nigel graduated from Oxford University in 1978 having studied PPE.

He spent the first 11 years of his career working in the City, both as a shipbroker and corporate financier with a leading merchant bank.

In 1989 he formed and led a management buy-in of a leading caravan manufacturing company based on the South Coast. This business was sold in 1995 at which stage he was asked to take control of a packaging company that was in financial difficulties. He completed a successful turnaround of the company, which was sold in 1998.

Since that time he has been involved in running several other packaging companies as well as acting as an NED of a medical equipment company and Chairman of an AIM listed technology business.

After finishing his studies, Ximo began working in the Fundación de Estudios Bursátiles y Financieros (Foundation of Market and Financial Studies), a part of the Valencia Stock Exchange, as a member of the team that developed the Mercado de Futuros de Cítricos (Futures Market for Citrus Products). In 1997 he joined what is now Livingstone, where he began working on M&A activities with Neil Collen. In 2004 he was promoted to Director of the firm and in 2007 he became a partner of the firm alongside Neil Collen. Ximo has had many years experience with private equity in Spain, and has closed deals in facilities management, IT and light manufacturing. Ximo currently heads our IT sector team.

Bachelor of Science in Economics (Valencia)

After graduating from University College London with a BSc (Hons) degree in Information Systems and Management, Ian worked as a Systems Consultant for Northern Connection a boutique IT implementation house, before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004. During his time at PwC, Ian worked with leading multinationals in the Technology and Financial Services sectors in the area of Information Technology Risk Management and Best Practice. At Livingstone, Ian is focused on the media:tech sector.

Greg attended Manchester Metropolitan University where he gained a BA (Hons) in Business Administration. He is an experienced researcher with over eight years experience gained from positions at PwC, NM Rothschild & Sons and Reuters. Greg joined Livingstone in 2004 where he works across many sectors, with a particular focus on the Industrials sector.

BA (Hons)

After graduating from the University of Surrey with a BSc (Hons) Retail Management and MSc International Management, Harsha worked as a retail analyst for Verdict Research, a market research consultancy. During his time at Verdict, Harsha gained wide exposure to the sector and developed a particular focus on multi-channel and home related markets. Harsha joined Livingstone in 2007 to work as an analyst in the Leisure and Consumer team, with an emphasis on retail.

After graduating from Lancaster University with a BA in philosophy, Eleanor joined KPMG in London where she qualified as a chartered accountant.

Eleanor transferred to the Corporate Finance arm of KPMG in 2004 where she completed a significant number of transactions focusing mainly on financial services businesses and private equity exits. She joined Livingstone in 2007 and works across a variety of sectors.

BA ACA

Nigel started his initial career at Price Waterhouse after joining the firm from Liverpool University with an upper second degree in Biotechnology.



In 1993, he joined Invex, a specialist firm of corporate finance advisers, where he acquired substantial experience of closing deals, many of them involving owner managers and the venture capital community. Immediately prior to joining Livingstone in 2001, Nigel gained significant experience at Deloitte's Corporate Finance where he was responsible for originating, leading and completing a variety of transactions, with an emphasis on Technology deals.



In February 2009, aged 40, Nigel lost his short, but brave, fight against throat cancer. Nigel made a valuable and lasting contribution to Livingstone during his time with the firm. He was always a positive and extremely popular member of the team, liked by clients and colleagues alike. Both professionally and personally, Nigel is greatly missed and will forever be in the Livingstone family’s thoughts.