Welcome to Oakley Capital Corporate Finance

Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (“Oakley”) is a mid-market corporate finance business which provides sector specialist advice to quoted and private companies in the telecoms, media, technology, financial services and renewable energy sectors.

We differentiate ourselves by providing clients with both Corporate Finance advice, typically focusing on M&A deals with a value of up to £500m and also Corporate Broking services, where we work intensively with our retained clients to widen their institutional shareholder bases and develop their equity stories.

We are also particularly active in the private equity market, where we work with many of the leading mid-market firms to develop deal ideas and opportunities. Since we formed Oakley within the Oakley Capital group of financial services businesses, we have completed 33 transactions with a value of more than £2bn.

Above all, we provide our clients with long term relationship-based help as they seek to maximise shareholder value.

Latest News

12/01/2012

Chris Brooks, the former Corporate Development Director for Cable & Wireless Worldwide plc (“CWW”) has joined Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (”Oakley”) as a Director in the M&A team. The move reflects the continung expansion of Oakley’s deal flow and underlines its commitment to building a leading mid-market and sector specialist advisory practice. In particular, Chris brings years of telecoms, IT services and technology expertise, both through his time at CWW and through his former role as a director with the investment bank Rothschild.

06/10/2011

Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (”Oakley”) has advised Dedipower Managed Hosting Ltd. (“Dedipower”; “the Company”), a Reading-based managed hosting and colocation provider, on its sale to Lumison, a leading UK provider of hosting and cloud services to mid-market companies. The deal is the 10^th transaction completed by Oakley so far in 2011, several of which have been in hosting and IT managed services.

03/10/2011

Growth investor Lyceum Capital (“Lyceum”) was advised by Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (”Oakley”) on its investment in Adapt (“Adapt”; “the Company”), a leading Managed IT Services Provider. The £30m deal will back Adapt as it executes a buy-and-build strategy to capitalise on market opportunites. Oakley assisted Lyceum as sole corporate finance advisor throughout the process.