Nick Johnson

Nick recently combined his boutique CF advisory business, Atticus, with a major international professional services provider, Mazars. His focus is on providing long term support and transaction advice to private companies and management teams. Nick has significant business experience gained from a 20 year career in professional services – prior to setting up Atticus he was a Corporate Finance Advisory Partner with Deloitte for several years, leading the highly successful Midlands team.

Nick’s experience covers a broad range of Corporate Finance Transactions focussing on both sell side and buy side advice for private companies, corporates, private equity houses and management teams. He has a strong reputation in the Yorkshire, Midlands and London market places with a well developed network of PE houses and high quality private businesses. He has experience of working throughout the UK and overseas covering a wide variety of sectors including healthcare, consumer business, manufacturing and business and financial services. Nick has advised on and completed over 100 transactions.

Nick’s transaction highlights include:

• Refinancing and Shareholder Reorganisation of The Binding Site
• MBO of Forge Plastics
• MBO of CLC
• MBO of John Fredericks
• Secondary MBO of Steelite
• IBO of Worldmark
• MBO of Penn Pharmaceuticals
• Management buyout of Optilan
• IBO of Nationwide Autocentres
• MBO of MLM
• Acquisition of Reeds Rains by Lending Solutions
• Refinancing and Shareholder Reorganisation of Prohire
• Sale of Medical Support Systems
• Sale of Honormead
• Sale of CCM
• Sale of SPI
• Sale of Atlas Caravans
• Sale of Enact
• Sale of Conveco
• Acquisition of Floors2Go
• Secondary buy out of Healthcare at Home
• Significant debt and equity fundraising for UK retailer