Personal fairness investor Pollen Road Capital is to accumulate SIPPs and Monetary Planning agency Mattioli Woods in a £432m deal introduced in the present day.
Pollen Road has arrange an acquisition automobile, Tiger Bidco, to accumulate Mattioli Woods for £432m in money.
Below the deal, Pollen’s Tiger Bidco can pay 804p in money for Mattioli Woods, a 34% premium to the Mattioli share value on 7 March.
Mattioli Woods has acquired a number of companies lately together with quite a few Monetary Planning companies (see beneath).
Pollen Road Capital has additionally made quite a few acquisitions within the monetary providers sector and owns increasing wealth supervisor and Monetary Planner Kingswood.
Mattioli Woods administrators mentioned they believed that the acquisition offered an “engaging supply” for Mattioli Woods shareholders and can allow Mattioli Woods to proceed its growth.
Mattioli Woods is headed by founder and chief govt Ian Mattioli.
Mr Mattioli mentioned: “Since our admission to AIM in 2005, we’ve got seen important growth in each the dimensions and nature of our enterprise, integrating asset administration, Monetary Planning and worker profit providers to serve private and company purchasers all through the UK.
“We have now a powerful monitor file of mixing like-minded companies that share the identical tradition and ethos of placing purchasers first. The group at Pollen Road Capital share our ardour for delivering distinctive consumer outcomes and have demonstrated their potential to associate with entrepreneurial monetary providers enterprise. I imagine that with Pollen Road Capital’s help and entry to capital we are able to speed up the supply of our technique and supply our purchasers with the proactive recommendation and bespoke funding options they require.”
Lindsey McMurray, managing associate of Pollen Road Capital, mentioned: “We’re happy to have reached settlement with the Mattioli Woods Board on the phrases of Bidco’s supply to Mattioli Woods shareholders.
“We imagine Mattioli Woods would profit from a transition to personal possession, which might allow Mattioli Woods to speed up its development technique and to capitalise available on the market alternative in UK wealth administration. Pollen Road Capital has sturdy heritage in supporting firms within the monetary and enterprise providers sectors and we’re excited by the chance to work with Mattioli Woods in attaining our bold targets for the enterprise.”
In February, Mattioli Woods reported pre-tax earnings up 60% to £7.6m within the six months ended 30 November 2023 with income over the identical interval up 8% to £59.1m
The corporate reported elevated demand for wealth administration and Monetary Planning recommendation, pushed by proposed pension and funding reforms and market circumstances.
The acquisitive firm mentioned it had a pipeline of potential acquisition alternatives this yr following a busy yr in 2023.
In December its non-public fairness division Maven Capital Companions acquired EIS supervisor Newable Ventures Restricted as a part of a transfer into the Enterprise Funding Scheme market.
In September, its subsidiary Ludlow Wealth Administration acquired £53m AUM Blackpool-based Opus Wealth Administration Restricted in a deal probably value greater than £1.4m.
Earlier final yr it acquired a 50.1% stake in Lincoln-based mortgage adviser White Mortgages for £425,000. It additionally acquired Northern Eire Monetary Planner Doherty Pension & Funding Consultancy for £15.048m.
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