Cooper Parry has strengthened its offers advisory capabilities with the acquisition of Fellwood Advisory, a mid-market debt advisory agency, marking its sixteenth transaction in simply over two years.
The acquisition provides to the agency’s rising presence within the skilled providers market and follows its partnership with New York-based Lee Fairness Companions in December 2024. Additionally it is the fourth deal accomplished since that partnership was shaped.
The transfer takes Cooper Parry’s turnover to greater than £235 million.
Based in 2023, Fellwood Advisory specialises in negotiating and securing debt services usually starting from £2 million to £50 million for company and personal equity-backed purchasers.
The agency’s senior group brings over 30 years of company lending and advisory expertise.
Craig Cheetham, founding associate and managing director at Fellwood Advisory, mentioned:
“Cooper Parry’s dynamic mannequin actually appealed to us. CP’s ethos to be a disruptor within the skilled providers market and problem the established order actually resonated with us. This brings an actual alternative for the debt advisory apply to proceed to develop and appeal to excessive calibre individuals to fulfill the demand we’re seeing.”
The acquisition additional expands Cooper Parry’s offers group, which now numbers greater than 100 professionals providing company finance, debt advisory, administration incentive advisory, transaction providers and transaction tax.
Timothy Mahapatra, associate and head of offers at Cooper Parry, mentioned:
“With Craig and his gifted group approaching board, our end-to-end Offers provide is strengthened even additional following on from the just lately introduced acquisition of Liberty Company Finance in July 25. Our Offers Crew’s experience provides purchasers a totally built-in answer to all their M&A wants.”
Ade Cheatham, CEO of Cooper Parry, described Fellwood Advisory as “a younger agency with severe momentum.” He added:
“They carry specialist firepower to our Offers group and add much more depth to the built-in provide we’re constructing. That is one other step in creating the next-gen skilled providers agency – daring, quick, and fuelled by tradition.”
