Pure Advice
We have a unique model: providing expert strategic and corporate finance advice to our clients in the financial services sector. This is our only business.
Senior Commitment
Our team is led by senior bankers who have decades of experience and are “hands-on” in the their approach with a relentless focus on meeting our clients’ objectives.
Connectivity in Financial Services
Financial services is becoming increasingly inter-connected. Our expertise across all financial services sectors allows us to have a multi-dimensional approach and deliver creative yet realistic solutions for our clients.
Complex Problem Solving
Our professionals are amongst the brightest and most experienced in the industry and thrive on providing expert perspectives to help clients address the most complex strategic issues. We are deeply analytical and fact based, supporting our judgement and advice with rigorous financial analysis.
Proactive, Pragmatic and Discreet
Our well-connected senior bankers and industrial scale capabilities allow us to introduce relevant ideas and opportunities at an early stage. Our inquisitive nature means that we support our clients to challenge the industrial, strategic, financial, operational and regulatory parameters involved in each assignment. Quite often, we support our clients in concluding not to undertake certain transactions. Our ability to do this at an early stage saves precious management time and avoids unnecessary costs. Discretion is at the heart of our business, enabling our clients to maximise tactical and commercial advantage.
Profile
“Our expertise and capabilities are proven and relevant in the UK and internationally. We have initiated and executed numerous cross border transactions which are a testament to our global sector perspectives and diverse team.”
Vincent Bounie
Senior Managing Director
“Our sector expertise and connectivity means that our clients benefit from our strategic insights as well as our deep understanding of a rapidly changing regulatory environment. M&A in financial services needs to be highly sensitive to the complex regulatory and capital impact of transactions, which means that our clients need our expert support in debt and equity capital instruments and markets.”
Chris Deville
Senior Managing Director
“We offer clients a powerful cocktail of discreet, trusted relationship based advice combined with first class corporate finance execution. This has enabled us to secure repeat business from some of the largest and most sophisticated financial institutions who are heavily solicited by our much larger and better known competitors.”
Graham Marchant
Senior Managing Director
“Our client proposition has at its heart senior bankers deeply involved in leading M&A transactions, working with discretion and enthusiasm. This is facilitated by our pure and simple business model where every client is special. The Fenchurch business is not managed by ratios and productivity per head. Our internal criterion for measuring success is the satisfaction level of our clients and their public and private endorsement of Fenchurch.”
Duncan Buck
Vice Chairman
John A. Sipp
Senior Managing Director and Head of US
Case Study
£375 million
Advised Sun Life Financial on the acquisition of a majority stake in InfraRed Capital Partners.
Dec 2019
United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Advising CNP Assurances on the sale of its Spanish life insurance subsidiary, CNP Partners, to Mediterráneo Vida.
Mar 2022
Paris
Undisclosed
Advising Epiris and Nucleus on the sale of a majority stake in Nucleus to HPS.
Mar 2022
United Kingdom
£3.24 billion
Advised Standard Life Aberdeen on the sale of its insurance business and long-term strategic partnership with Phoenix Group.
Feb 2018
United Kingdom
$1 billion
Advised IG Group on its acquisition of tastytrade, Inc.
Jan 2021
United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Advised Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of a 50.1% stake in Oney Bank and entering into a long term strategic partnership.
Feb 2019
France
£410 million
Advised Hermes Investment Management on the sale of a 60% stake to Federated Investors.
Apr 2018
United Kingdom
£1.9 billion
Advised Investec on the demerger of its Asset Management business (rebranding to Ninety One).
Nov 2019
United Kingdom & South Africa
Undisclosed
Advised BGL Group on the sale of its insurance distribution business, BGLi to the Markerstudy Group.
Jan 2022
London
£248 million
Advising Sun Life Financial on the sale of Sun Life UK and long-term strategic partnership with Phoenix Group.
Aug 2022
UK
£242 million
Advised Legal & General on the sale of its general insurance business to Allianz.
May 2019
£271 million
Advised Premier Asset Management on its recommended all-share merger with Miton Group.
Sep 2019
United Kingdom
£370 million
Advised Jupiter Fund Management on the acquisition of Merian Global Investors.
Feb 2020
United Kingdom
€3.7 billion
Advised Groupe BPCE on its public tender offer to the minority shareholders of Natixis.
Feb 2021
France
c.€660 million
Advising AXA on the sale of a closed life and pensions portfolio in Germany to Athora.
Jul 2022
Germany
Undisclosed
Advising Cinven on its acquisition of International Financial Group Limited.
Feb 2022
London
£140 million
Advised L&G on the sale of Cofunds to Aegon.
Aug 2016
United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Advising Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of leasing group Eurolocatique by BPCE Lease.
Nov 2022
Paris
£185 million
Advised the Co-operative Group on the sale of its insurance underwriting business to Markerstudy and agreement of a 13-year distribution agreement for home and motor insurance.
Jan 2019
United Kingdom
£2.5 billion
Advised The Ardonagh Group on its group refinancing including a combination of both private and public instruments.
Jun 2020
United Kingdom
£12 billion
Advised Standard Life plc on its recommended all-share merger with Aberdeen Asset Management plc.
May 2017
United Kingdom
£1.49 billion
Advised J.C. Flowers on the sale of interactive investor to abrdn.
Dec 2021
United Kingdom
c.£170 million
Advised Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management UK on the acquisition of Punter Southall Wealth.
Dec 2021
United Kingdom
Undisclosed
Advised AÉSIO mutuelle on the sale of its minority stake in Mutex to Groupe VYV.
Jul 2021
France
Undisclosed
Advised R&Q on the successful defence against shareholder Phoenix Asset Management Partners’ attempt to requisition management changes.
Sep 2022
London
£390 million
Advised Embark Group on its sale to Lloyds Banking Group plc.
Jul 2021
United Kingdom
£95 million
Advised Fluent Money Group on the sale of a 75% stake in the Group to Mortgage Advice Bureau.
Mar 2022
United Kingdom
£3.25 billion
Advised Swiss Re on the sale of ReAssure to Phoenix Group.
Dec 2019
United Kingdom
£578 million
Advised LV= on the sale of its remaining 51% stake in LV= General Insurance to Allianz.
May 2019
£1.7 billion
Advised Hastings Group plc on the recommended cash offer from a consortium of Sampo and RMI.
Aug 2020
United Kingdom
£242 million
Advising Curtis Banks Group plc on the recommended cash offer from Nucleus.
Jan 2023
London
Undisclosed
Advising Nordic Capital on the acquisition of Ascot Lloyd.
Apr 2022
London