Shaw & Co, the specialist corporate finance advisory firm, has continued its expansion with the appointment of Rikesh Patel as a Director in the company’s Manchester office.

The office is currently in the midst of an extraordinarily busy time with three deals reaching imminent completion and a strong pipeline of future mandates.

Rikesh, who has over 15 years’ experience in financial services, joins from RSM Corporate Finance where he was a Director in the company’s M&A and Private Equity team.

A specialist in mergers and acquisitions, business disposals, management buyouts, fund raising and growth capital, Rikesh has a wealth of experience across a range of sectors including infrastructure and telecommunications.

His recent deals include advising instrument engineers Lambda Calibration on its sale to Trescal; overseeing the debt funded management buyout of Trust Utility Management; advising the shareholders of Five Wealth on private equity investment from Foresight; and advising the shareholders of MacroArt and YFM on their sale to Moss Inc.

Before joining RSM, he held roles in the Audit & Accounts team of UHY Hacker Young and was a Research Analyst at Ballard Campbell Corporate Finance.

Shaw & Co, which has five offices across the UK (Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, London and Manchester), helps business leaders and SME owners across the UK to buy, sell, or fund the growth of a business. Since its inception in 2011, the company has overseen over £0.6bn worth of transactions, including numerous deals with renowned international companies such as the sales of GoProposal to Sage, Pukka Herbs to Unilever, Canopy Simulations to Michelin, and Vouchercloud to Groupon.

The company is also part of ECOVIS International, a network of over 12,000 accounting, tax, audit and legal professionals active in over 90 countries and across five continents.

Jim Shaw, Founder & CEO, Shaw & Co, said: “We work extremely hard to demystify the complexity of corporate finance to help business owners and SMEs business leaders and SME owners across to buy, sell, or fund the growth of a business.

“We’re currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of expansion and there is burgeoning demand for our services across both the North West and the rest of the UK. Rikesh is a highly experienced and respected advisor and we are extremely excited to have him board where he will play an integral role in our next stage of growth.”