The Mobile Boardroom and Corporate Finance Boutique

Formed in 1989

‘First corporate trouble shooting team in the UK’ (Financial Times,1992)

Pioneered the ‘Mobile Boardroom’ concept

Unrivalled expertise across Southern England

Team has grown to 20 Senior Consultants

Service specialism: ◦ Interim Management

◦ Corporate Finance

Leading independent consultancy practice in the South East

Highly respected and well regarded -100+ retained clients

Strong relationships with leading firms

Extensive network throughout the South East

High profile companies and associations

Advisory panels and business community involvement

South East focus:

Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire

Offices in:

Eastbourne, Brighton, Maidstone, Crawley, Chichester

National and international project experience

Typically: ◦ SME’s

◦ Owner Managed operations

◦ Small PLC’s

Public or private sector

Business size: ◦ Project dependant

◦ Turnover range £5m-50m+

Target every stage of the business cycle

SME’s

Small PLC’s

National or

Multinationals

Lead service

Satisfy the highly underserviced SME sector

Exploiting the demand for well qualified and locally focused consultants

Executive level Principals ◦ Specialist knowledge and experience

◦ General management skills

Combined we are the ‘Mobile Boardroom’

First hand experience

Various roles, disciplines and business levels

Titles and roles performed include: Non-Executive Chairman

CEO / Managing Director

Commercial Finance Director

Marketing / Sales Director

Chief Restructuring Officer

Acquisition Director

Services delivered by: ◦ One-off project

Business reviews, benchmarking, performance analysis

◦ Retained consultancy

Non-executive, strategic planning

Lasting relationships with clients

Provide strategic direction and advice

Lonely world of owner manger businesses

Delivering tangible and measurable outcomes

An integral part of the management team

Broadest based industry knowledge in the South

◦ Construction

◦ Motor

◦ FMCG

◦ IT and Media

◦ Recruitment

◦ Import/Export

◦ Logistics

◦ Education

◦ Leisure

◦ Property

◦ Manufacturing

◦ Retail

◦ Service

◦ Telco

◦ Pharmaceuticals

◦ Healthcare

◦ Motor

◦ Design, PR and marketing

◦ Print and publishing

◦ Fashion and design

Established1994

Response to successful turnaround work ◦ Post 90’s recession

Complementary to interim management offering

Advising organisations and individuals

Experience working in major finance groups ◦ Corporate finance, venture capital and merchant banking

Strong relationships with investment community

Full range including:

Target identification and evaluation

Raising venture capital and equity investment

Debt funding and asset-based finance

Exit planning

Grooming ‘for sale’

Business sales

IPO’s

Financial packaging and restructuring

Not a ‘pure’ brokerage

Complimentary to our ‘mobile boardroom’

Personal industry experience

Skills gained at the ‘coal face’ ◦ Leading transactions within our own

organisations/clients

No junior staff

Personal contact and service delivery

Cost effective for SME’s

Added value of cross-fertilised skills

Over 200 transactions completed

Total deal value £250m+

‘Getting to know a business intimately requires patience, verve and expertise. The team at

EMC have it all’ (M&A Magazine)

‘We are grateful to EMC for guiding us successfully through a process and transaction made a lot more difficult by the special issues surrounding the Icelandic banks. Handling highly complex negotiations with great skill and dexterity demonstrating focus and resolution’.

Simon Yorke, H&B Foods

‘As a Scotsman, you would expect me to be careful with my money; nor am I easily impressed by professional advisors. With EMC I paid regional fee rates and got a top quality service’.

Eddie Campbell, Practical Print Solutions

‘Having an experienced and objective advisor at our side was incredibly invaluable. EMC were always available to help their experience and advice assisted us immensely. A job very well done and worth every penny!’ Guy Roberts, Pelham International Ltd

‘We understand software but this corporate stuff is completely beyond us and we had total confidence that EMC would look after our best interests.’ Charles James, Axiom Connection Ltd

Direct ◦ Mail outs

◦ Tele-marketing

Indirect ◦ Referral network

◦ Major sponsors of the M&A Awards

‘Deal of the Year Award’ 2007

‘Deal of the Year Award’ 2008

‘Growth company deal of the year’ 2010

◦ Business Seminars

‘Company valuations’, ‘Surviving a recession’, ‘How to sell your business’, ‘How to grow your sales’

Charity supporters ◦ Sussex Community Foundation

◦ ‘Have a Heart’ charity

Joint founders of business lunch clubs ◦ Brighton & Hove;

◦ Tunbridge Wells;

◦ Maidstone; and

◦ Crawley

Hove Rugby Club sponsors

Sussex County Cricket club

Raise finance

Manage

growth and

development

Maximise

business

performance

Groom

business for

sale

Sell

Establish

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