Our diverse team and simple operating model allows us to offer clients a seamless cross-border advisory service. We have been successful in sourcing, structuring and executing sell-side and buy-side transactions across multiple jurisdictions.
Our broad relationships with the international financial services community means that we can offer our clients a truly global perspective on the issues they face.
Our international client base includes leading financial institutions based in the UK, Continental Europe, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Asia and Australia.
Profile
“Our sector expertise and connectivity means that our clients benefit from our strategic insights as well as our deep understanding of a rapidly changing regulatory environment. M&A in financial services needs to be highly sensitive to the complex regulatory and capital impact of transactions, which means that our clients need our expert support in debt and equity capital instruments and markets.”
Chris Deville
Senior Managing Director
“We offer clients a powerful cocktail of discreet, trusted relationship based advice combined with first class corporate finance execution. This has enabled us to secure repeat business from some of the largest and most sophisticated financial institutions who are heavily solicited by our much larger and better known competitors.”
Graham Marchant
Senior Managing Director
“Our client proposition has at its heart senior bankers deeply involved in leading M&A transactions, working with discretion and enthusiasm. This is facilitated by our pure and simple business model where every client is special. The Fenchurch business is not managed by ratios and productivity per head. Our internal criterion for measuring success is the satisfaction level of our clients and their public and private endorsement of Fenchurch.”
Duncan Buck
Vice Chairman
“Our expertise and capabilities are proven and relevant in the UK and internationally. We have initiated and executed numerous cross border transactions which are a testament to our global sector perspectives and diverse team.”
Vincent Bounie
Senior Managing Director
Case Study
$1 billion
Advising IG Group on its acquisition of tastytrade, Inc.
Jan 2021
United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Advised Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of a 50.1% stake in Oney Bank and entering into a long term strategic partnership.
Feb 2019
France
£12 billion
Advised Standard Life plc on its recommended all-share merger with Aberdeen Asset Management plc.
May 2017
United Kingdom
£530 million
Advising LV= on its sponsored demutualisation and the sale of its savings and retirement and protection businesses to Bain Capital.
Dec 2020
United Kingdom
£578 million
Advised LV= on the sale of its remaining 51% stake in LV= General Insurance to Allianz.
May 2019
£3.25 billion
Advising Swiss Re on the sale of ReAssure to Phoenix Group.
Dec 2019
United Kingdom
£271 million
Advised Premier Asset Management on its recommended all-share merger with Miton Group.
Sep 2019
United Kingdom
£3.24 billion
Advised Standard Life Aberdeen on the sale of its insurance business and long-term strategic partnership with Phoenix Group.
Feb 2018
United Kingdom
£1.9 billion
Advised Investec on the demerger of its Asset Management business (rebranding to Ninety One).
Nov 2019
United Kingdom & South Africa
£370 million
Advised Jupiter Fund Management on the proposed acquisition of Merian Global Investors.
Feb 2020
United Kingdom
£1.7 billion
Advising Hastings Group plc on the recommended cash offer from a consortium of Sampo and RMI.
Aug 2020
United Kingdom
£185 million
Advising the Co-operative Group on the sale of its insurance underwriting business to Markerstudy and agreement of a 13-year distribution agreement for home and motor insurance.
Jan 2019
United Kingdom
£242 million
Advised Legal & General on the sale of its general insurance business to Allianz.
May 2019
£375 million
Advised Sun Life Financial on the acquisition of a majority stake in InfraRed Capital Partners.
Dec 2019
United Kingdom
£140 million
Advised L&G on the sale of Cofunds to Aegon.
Aug 2016
United Kingdom
£2.5 billion
Advising The Ardonagh Group on its group refinancing including a combination of both private and public instruments.
Jun 2020
United Kingdom
£410 million
Advised Hermes Investment Management on the sale of a 60% stake to Federated Investors.
Apr 2018
United Kingdom