Andy Collins

Senior Partner

Andy qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse and spent 3 years in corporate finance with BDO Stoy Hayward where he advised on a wide range of M&A work. Andy then moved 'client side' and held a number of high profile roles as Finance Director, initially with Triangle Communications ( 7 years), then publishing group Northern & Shell Plc where the launch of OK! magazine together with its satellite TV operations paved the way for the acquisition of the Express Group. Andy then joined international recruitment group 'Elan', raising £14m venture capital finance prior to the successful sales of this business to Manpower plc for some £88m. Andy then downsized, joining Raw Communications a fledgling city based financial media business as CFO, raising £20m private equity finance, winning the Sunday Times techtrack 100 award and securing its sale to Thomson Corporation Inc. More recently Andy took Asfare Group Plc to AIM and now advises services based businesses on a wide range of fund raising and M&A work.

Andy is known amongst the team as the adrenaline sports junkie.