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 over 40 transactions with a value of more than £2.3bn.

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

Latest News

25/04/2013

The sale of BIS, the independent data centre operator, to Six Degrees Group (6DG), completes another advisory role in the hosting sector for Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (“Oakley”). With 200 customers and 30 staff, BIS provides corporate hosting and private cloud services from datacentres in Central London.

16/01/2013

Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (“Oakley”) and Berenson & Company, LLC have advised Emesa Holdings BV (“Emesa”, “the Company”), a leading online consumer auction platform for the European leisure industry, on its sale for an enterprise value of €95m to Dasym Emesa Holding B.V, a fund managed by Cyrte Investments BV (“Cyrte”). The sale completes Oakley’s most successful run of deals to date, with three M&A transactions signed or completed in four weeks, with a combined value of £280m. All three deals involved private equity funds, either on the “buy-side” or the “sell-side”.

27/11/2012

Oakley Capital Corporate Finance (“Oakley”) has advised Claranet Group (“Claranet”) on its acquisition of STH Limited, the parent company of Star Technology Services Limited (“Star”), in a deal valued at £55 million. The acquisition creates one of the leading mid-market providers of integrated hosting and network services in the UK and Continental Europe.