PwC has scooped a top award at the 2010 Private Equity Awards,
winning the title of 'Professional Services Firm of the Year'.
The much-coveted awards, sponsored by the British Private Equity
and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Real Deals, aim to
recognise the achievements of the industry's leading dealmakers and
advisers. Judged by a panel of Private Equity (PE) houses and key
advisers, the award win is recognition of the firm's success during
a difficult deal market in 2009.
Matt Waddell, head of corporate finance at
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Midlands, said:
"This is an excellent achievement for the firm, recognising our
commitment to the Private Equity industry. As a firm, we have been
agile in responding to the challenges facing the industry and are
poised ready to help clients deal with addressing some of these
challenges.
"In the Midlands, we are seeing signs of a resurgence in the
private equity market as confidence in the economic recovery
improves. Private equity is still instrumental to Midlands' deal
making, witnessed first hand recently through our advice on the
recent buyout of Derbyshire-based Deb Group - makers of Swarfega
and other skincare products - on their sale to Charterhouse Capital
Markets for £325 million."