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Experienced Advisers, Clear Advice, Optimal Results

HMT are successful, long-established and independent corporate finance advisers with an award-winning team and an exceptional track record of completed deals.

  • 30

    deals completed in the past 12 months

  • 34

    years leading corporate finance deals

  • 684

    deals completed since 1992

  • 44

    awards won since 1992

  • 21

    offices across the globe within our international network Cognos

Led by highly experienced and hands-on partners, we guide and support our clients to achieve their transactional objectives as effectively and painlessly as possible. Between us, HMT’s partners have been transacting deals for more than 120 years, so we know every trick in the book!

Whether we are leading the disposal of an entrepreneurial business, advising a management team through a private equity process, supporting a corporate with their acquisition strategy or raising development capital to support business growth, we bring passion and personal commitment to every transaction and ensure that it is delivered on optimal terms with minimal stress to the business and its stakeholders.

It is important to us to build strong relationships with all our clients and connections. We do this by doing what we promise, being clear and direct and taking the time to understand what is important. We win most of our work through recommendations and are always happy to offer references to prospective clients.

We pride ourselves on our client service. Our clients know they can call us at any time if they want to air concern or understand an issue. We know that our clients’ deals are life-changing for them and so every deal is hugely important to us too.

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Sectors

HMT advises clients across a wide range of sectors, but with a clear concentration of expertise in the following core areas. Our Sectors

Our Sectors

Our global coverage

Our Global Reach
Being part of Cognos gives our clients direct access to in-depth knowledge of local markets, international buyers and sellers and “on the ground” deal-doers who are experts in mid-market transactions in their own jurisdictions.

Selling a business is a major milestone and our HMT team worked really closely with us to achieve this. Wendy and Arthur supported us every step of the way — their strategic insight, experience, and focus on securing the best outcome made all the difference.”

Duncan Fergusson

Founder and CEO of Sci-net

HMT were mandated to find the right investment partner to support the continued growth of the business over the next five years. Andrew and Ricky spent time understanding our unique value proposition and used their extensive market knowledge to run a focussed but competitive process with minimal disruption to the day-to-day operations. During the process, they and the team provided invaluable support and practical advice throughout and were key in negotiating the key commercial terms for the deal.

Simon Hambley

Founder and CEO of Strata

The HMT team delivered exceptional insight and precision throughout the acquisition process — their thorough analysis and clear recommendations gave us the confidence to move forward decisively.

Matthew Light

Group M&A Director

The team at HMT have played a key role in WaterBear’s journey having first secured the funding for Bruce and I to launch our first college in Brighton and we are delighted to have had their support during this successful exit eight years later. Their technical expertise, commercial insight and hands-on support throughout the transaction were outstanding. The team was responsive, proactive and focused on delivering the best possible outcome for all the stakeholders involved in the deal. We could not have asked for better advisers and would highly recommend HMT to any business owner considering a sale.

Adam Bushell

Co-Founder of Waterbear

Throughout the whole process, the HMT team’s consummate professionalism, guidance and unwavering support, ensured that our values were aligned and a smooth transition could be achieved both for our customers, and our high-performing team.

Tracy Ebdon-Poole

Founder of TaxCalc

Why HMT

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Passionate

We are passionate about delivering an optimal outcome for our clients and helping them achieve their personal objectives. We understand entrepreneurial businesses because we are one.

Our Deals
Our team

Personal

Partners are supported by high-calibre professional staff who share our core values of enthusiasm, energy, entrepreneurialism and empathy to our client's objectives.

Our Team
Proven-Why

Proven

Our Partners have unparalleled deal experience in the mid-market and are supported by a team of dedicated deal-doers with specialist capabilities and experience.

About Us
Connected-Why

Connected

We have an extensive network of acquisitive corporates, institutional investors and debt providers both in the UK and internationally through our membership of our global network Cognos.

Our Network

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