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54 CORPORATE FINANCE ADVISER SERVICES The PwC deals team in Yorkshire supports clients of all types across a wide range of transaction related services, including M&A lead advisory, Debt and Capital Advisory, Restructuring Services, Consulting, Transaction Services and Due Diligence, M&A Tax, Legal Services, Forensics and Consulting. Our team of specialist advisors provide these services to clients on a range of different transactions including, Acquisitions, Disposals, Finance Raising, IPOs, Public to Private Transactions, accelerated M&A, insolvency's and disputes. NUMBER OF STAFF 801 in the North East and Yorkshire TRANSACTIONS COMPLETED £500K JUNE15-MAY16 27 OUR PEOPLE * Stephen Moore, Partner, Head of Corporate Finance, Yorkshire, stephen.t.moore@uk.pwc.com * Charlotte Tracy, Director, Corporate Finance charlotte.tracy@uk.pwc.com * David Keenan, Corporate Finance Business Development david.m.keenan@uk.pwc.com * Will Oxley, Partner, Head of Transaction Services, Yorkshire & North East, will.oxley@uk.pwc.com * Joel Smith, Director, Transaction Services joel.d.smith@uk.pwc.com * Richard Siddall, Partner, Debt & Capital Advisory richard.siddall@uk.pwc.com * Dan Stott, Partner, Financial Modelling and Data & Analytics in Deals daniel.p.stott@uk.pwc.com * Simon Viner, Partner, M&A Tax simon.k.viner@uk.pwc.com MAJOR CLIENTS Nexus Vehicle Holdings, Poundworld, Pyronix, Shepherd Group, Volvox Group, Home Retail Group, Mayborn Group, Premier Farnell, Priory Group, R&R Ice Cream CONTACT PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL STEPHEN MOORE Tel: +44 (0)113 289 4000 Web: www.pwc.co.uk NOTABLE DEALS * Sale of Volvox Group to Rubicon Partners * Sale of Nexus Vehicle Holdings to Bowmark Capital Partners * Sale of Poundworld to TPG * Sale of Pyronix to Hikvision * Class 1 disposal reporting (working cap and profit forecast) on the sale of Homebase by Home Retail Group to Wesfarmers, an Australian retail group * Vendor due diligence for R&R Ice Cream in connection with their JV agreement with Nestlé's ice cream business * Class 1 reporting (working cap and profit estimate report) on the disposal of Akron Brass by Premier Farnell (supplier of electronic products and maintenance/repair services) * Refinancing of SPS to support a dividend recap for LDC CHARLOTTE TRACY DAVID KEENAN WILL OXLEY CORPORATE STATEMENT At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We're a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 208,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com. PwC refers to the PwC network and / or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. ©2016 PricewaterhouseCoopers. All rights reserved. JOEL SMITH RICHARD SIDDALL PWC DAN STOTT WINNER Deal of the Year Lifetime Achievement (Nigel Ward) SIMON VINER http://www.pwc.co.uk http://www.pwc.com http://www.pwc.com/structure http://www.pwc.co.uk http://www.insidermedia.com/event/yorkshire-dealmakers-awards-2015/coverage

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