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"After 75 years in my family ownership, it was as important to me to find the right buyer for Leay Ltd as it was to achieve the best price, and the structure Premier devised satisfied both the buyer and ourselves, without putting undue stress on the business."

''During the lengthy negotiations with Silverdell, we received the full attention of your experienced and dedicated deal team, and more importantly your knowledge of the environmental sector. The process wasn’t new to us, but your tactics and strategies helped us negotiate a terrific deal for shareholders.''

''Deciding to sell wasn’t easy, but once we appointed Premier everything proceeded to plan and we closed pretty much on timetable, though why lawyers and bankers close down for Christmas remains a mystery to me. Premier was professional in every way.''

Buying Industrial Water Jetting from you was our first acquisition, and although we weren’t entirely happy with the price we had to pay, we were delighted with the business and impressed by your command of the detail, which was a great assistance to us in our fundraising exercise”. Bring on the next deal please!

Despite the “apparently” difficult market, Premier did an excellent job in managing the sale of Henley Water to ESG, thereby providing the resources to develop the business to its full potential. Premier’s advice and support was invaluable and reassuring at all times."

"Premier made full use of its strong market knowledge, lining up four serious buyers, to enable us the maximize the price. We’re delighted Veolia is the buyer and we and the employees can sleep easily knowing Caltech is owned by the biggest waste company in the world. Overall, I was delighted by the service we received and the result achieved."

"With a significant pension fund deficit, you convinced a buyer of the inherent strength of our business, getting a great result to shareholders, employees and a parent company strong enough to support the growth of the business."

Eric was the Chief Executive of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 2003 until the end of 2006. Prior to that he was CEO of Old Mutual Financial Services plc. He has been CFO of three FTSE 100 Companies – Old Mutual plc, The Energy Group plc and Eastern Electricity plc. He is currently a non-executive Director of The Financial Reporting Council and Insight Investments Limited, the asset management wing of HBOS plc, and a member of the Takeover Panel Appeals Board. His early career was as a Partner at Ernst & Young until 1993.

"Premier brought fresh insights to our thinking, and achieved our shareholders’ objectives in full. They had the necessary specialist expertise and offered consistently high quality advice at all times."