About Ashcombe

For over 20 years, our senior team has been advising clients in the UK and abroad on M&A transactions, capital raisings and strategic development issues.

Overview

The senior Ashcombe team has been working together for over 20 years, setting up Ashcombe in 2010 to help clients in the UK and abroad with M&A transactions, capital raisings and strategic development issues.

We focus on financial services, consumer, technology & business services and use our extensive relationships with entrepreneurs, companies and capital providers globally to help clients achieve their strategic and financial objectives.

What makes us different?

We aim to support our clients by providing sophisticated, high-quality advice that seeks to balance short and medium-term transactions with long-term strategic objectives. Over the past 20 years this approach has helped us create enduring and successful relationships.

Our approach means we look beyond immediate transaction drivers to make sure we keep our clients’ broader objectives at the heart of what we do. Therefore, if required, we will advise against pursuing a particular transaction if we do not believe it is in our client’s interests.

Our main assets are the intellectual capital of the team and the focus and flexibility with which we can operate. We have extensive legal, accounting, investment banking and capital markets expertise and have brought these strengths to bear for large corporate clients, institutional investors and smaller companies that have significant potential and face the challenges typical of fast-growing businesses.

A number of clients have retained Ashcombe’s services more or less continuously since we started in 2000, reflective of the quality of our advice and our client and service proposition.

Approach to projects

We operate small/senior teams to ensure clients get the benefit of our focused, deep expertise throughout.
We choose clients carefully and then invest significant time getting to know them, their businesses, and their objectives.
Our advice is rooted in reality so clients are able to make informed decisions in their own best interests. We do not over promise.
We work with clients well in advance of transactions to ensure they are well prepared and start any process from a position of strength.
We run more intelligent processes, not just standard auctions, designed to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
We go beyond the traditional role of the M&A adviser to support clients before, during and after each transaction.