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Principal Consultant:

Graham Bond, Managing Director

Graham is a practising corporate Treasurer, particularly in change management situations.

Roles as Group Treasurer have included for a FTSE 100 leisure and pubs group, for two UK electricity utilities and for two international manufacturing companies.

In all, he has helped set up treasury functions for over 10 large companies in different market sectors and this has often included raising new syndicated bank debt facilities and re-financings including securitisation facilities.

Recent achievements have included:

  • Setting up the new treasury functions and becoming interim Group Treasurer for 3 large leverage buy-outs from multi-nationals, the latest being the gas, electricity and water metering manufacturing business previously owned by a multinational energy utility company. The manufacturer operates in over 60 countries with turnover of approximately EUR1.1billion.

  • As part of a team at a pubs, bars and restaurants group plc, developing and implementing a £1.9billion funding strategy for a leisure and pub group plc to enable the newly quoted FTSE 100 plc in the leisure sector to stay independent and satisfy institutional shareholder expectations.

  • Improving the financial risk management strategies and day-to-day treasury operations of a quoted water company, a FTSE 250 oil and gas exploration company and a direct marketing company, by benchmarking against good financial management practice.

  • Leading a series of exercises for a major personal financial services institution, a FTSE 250 plc, to find suitable local and international banks in Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary to provide local currency loans to the new country subsidiaries; and then negotiating new facilities and local banking services.

Associates

Long standing associate relationships have been in place with other independent consultants, which enables us to cover large assignments in treasury management, financial risk management and insurance strategy.