LONDON, UK: FRP Advisory Group plc, a leading national specialist business advisory firm, announced the acquisition of BridgeShield Asset Management Limited.
Founded in 2014, BridgeShield provides Property Asset Management advisory services to specialist lenders nationally from its office in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
BridgeShield’s Directors, Ben Hubbard and Nick McAuliffe will join FRP as Partners. The rest of the team will also join FRP, including three colleagues and two consultants.
Geoff Rowley, FRP CEO said: “Ben and Nick have built a great business and have worked with FRP for many years. They share our values and will be able to accelerate their growth by joining the Group. We will benefit from expanding our service offering to cover Asset Management services to specialist lenders and welcome the team to FRP.”
Ben Hubbard, founder of BridgeShield Asset Management, said: “We are delighted to be joining FRP with whom we have worked for the last five years and this cements what has been a fantastic working relationship. We are genuinely excited by the new growth opportunities this represents, whilst enabling us to continue to provide our existing clients with an industry leading level of service”
FRP is a professional services firm established in 2010 which offers a range of specialist advisory services to companies, lenders, investors and other stakeholders, as well as individuals. These services include:
· Restructuring advisory: corporate financial advisory, formal insolvency appointments, informal restructuring advisory, personal insolvency and general advice to all stakeholders.
· Corporate finance: mergers & acquisitions (M&A), strategic advisory and valuations, financial due diligence, capital raising, special situations M&A and partial exits.
· Debt advisory: raising and refinancing debt, debt amendments and extensions, restructuring debt, asset based lending and corporate and leveraged debt advisory.
· Forensic services: forensic investigations, compliance and risk advisory, dispute services and forensic technology.
· Pensions advisory: pension scheme transaction advisory, pension scheme restructuring advisory, covenant advisory and corporate governance