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