Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 Edition

Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 www.finance-monthly.com 34 UNITED KINGDOM MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS ADVISER OF THE YEAR FIRM PROFILE Cavendish is a leading UK mid-market M&A specialist; with over 30 years of experience we’ve successfully completed some 600 company sales. Since our foundation in 1988, we’ve built unrivalled specialist expertise in managing the sales process. We also offer invaluable pre-sale planning advice to enhance the attractiveness of businesses to potential purchasers by developing a unique exit planning process that is put in place between 12 and 36 months before the start of a sale exercise. Cavendish is a member firm of Oaklins – the world’s most experienced mid-market M&A advisor. Oaklins has trusted senior specialists who are entrepreneurs with skills and experience to ensure the best results for our clients. With over 1,500 deals closed in the past 5 years Oaklins ensures the best results, always involving industry specialists who take a global view and leverage deep local connections. JON EDIRMANASINGHE Partner at Cavendish ABOUT JON EDIRMANASINGHE Jon Edirmanasinghe, a Partner at Cavendish, and the winner of this year’s Adviser of the Year awards. Jon joined Cavendish in 2013 and has since become one of the youngest M&A Partners in London. Jon has advised on a number of successful sale mandates in a variety of sectors, from consumer to tech, to both domestic and international acquirers.” Prior to Cavendish, Jon spent 7 years across Deloitte Canada and Ernst & Young Cayman Islands, where he worked in various functions within both firms, but most recently focused on the hedge fund and private equity sectors. Jon graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2006, qualified as a Canadian Chartered Accountant in 2008, and later completed an MBA at the University of Oxford, where he graduated with distinction. www.cavendish.com