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Our Deals

We pride ourselves on confidentiality and are unable to provide specific transaction details. We have provided services to the clients below who have consented to being presented publicly:

We can provide client testimonials upon request, please contact us for more information

Ben Puddle

Ben is partner in ABT and Co-Founder of T&B Capital, where he focuses on the origination, execution, and ongoing management of investments in leisure-focused alternative real estate assets and companies. He spent a decade within the Institutional Client Group at Citi, specialising in operational restructuring, business optimization, and performance management. nBen has extensive experience in residential, commercial and student real-estate development, having originated, managed and co-invested in the development of more than 250,000 sqft in recent years.

He received a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Leeds followed by a Master of Laws LLM from Newcastle University.

Ben is a CFA Charter holder.

Edward Andrews

Edward is a Partner in ABT Capital and a Co-Founder of T&B Capital. He has over a decade of experience in private equity, project finance and corporate finance having worked in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Edward has held investment roles with a family-owned private equity company in Dubai; leading global private equity firm TPG Capital in London; and a UK mid-market fund, also based in London. All mandates were focused on alternative / sustainable real assets and asset-based operating companies. He has significant strategy, finance and governance experience gained at board level for both assets and companies.

Before moving into private equity, Edward worked for Ernst & Young’s Corporate & Project Finance team in Vancouver. Edward started his career with Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in London, where he spent 4 years as part of the Industrials M&A team.

He holds a BA and MA in History from Cambridge University. Edward is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Alex Pope

Alex is Founder of ABT and a Partner in Private equity firm T&B Capital. He is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with a background in Private Equity and has extensive experience originating and executing transactions across the UK and Europe. Alex has held roles on the buy side teams of two Real Estate focused special opportunity funds with European wide mandates and in excess of $2bn equity under management (return targets of 20% IRR and 2x CRM) with his responsibilities including originating, pricing, underwriting, financing, structuring and executing acquisitions.

Prior to acting as a principal Alex was in the Advisory arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on the M&A deals team with a focus on providing advisory services on ‘mid market’ transactions, his clients included public and private clients as well as lending institutions. Alex was consistently mandated to provide financial due diligence (Buy side and sell side), pre sale support, IPO (as reporting accountant) and refinancing advice.

Our Concept

ABT Capital Ltd (ABT) was formed in early 2016 to provide corporate finance and transaction support to HNW individuals, family offices, investor clubs and small / mid market focussed investment funds. We are selective in the mandates we accept as we adopt a long term, sustainable business model that prioritises the promotion of successful transactions over short term fee income. Wherever possible we seek to align our interests with those of our clients and adopt flexible fee structures enabling equity positions to be accepted in lieu of cash fees.

Our Sectors

We focus on the sectors we know best as this is where we are strongest. We have a highly experienced team of senior professionals from a variety of industry sectors and these are where we concentrate most heavily. Our core sectors are:

– Real Estate

– Hospitality & Leisure

– Entertainment

– Retail

– Healthcare

Whilst we focus most heavily on the ‘core’ sectors mentioned above we do also provide services in other sectors. Please contact us if you would like to know more about the other sectors we operate in.

Our Values

We are passionate about the services we provide and are proud of our work. Each of our senior team members has a long and successful track record with varying characteristics but what brings us together is our common attitude and value sets. We believe that in the competitive market we operate in high quality services are expected as a matter of routine and what enables some market participants to succeed consistently over long periods of time in changing operational environments and economic cycles is determined by the fundamental principles the business operates under. We pay due care and attention to our ethical and moral position and value the following key characteristics:

– Transparency
– Reliability
– Honesty
– Sustainability

Our Senior Team

We are a senior team of experienced professionals utilising our knowledge and network to provide an exceptional client service and enable the origination of high quality transaction opportunities.

For more information about or senior team members please click here

Our Services

We provide a full suite of corporate finance advisory services covering:

Buy side
Sell side
Debt advisory
Strategic projects

We also provide a variety of Transaction Support services designed to provide targeted, flexible assistance to clients on an ad hoc basis. We have found that clients can often benefit by seeking professional support to either relieve the pressure on key internal personnel or enable the roles and responsibilities of an M&A team to be effectively outsourced (whilst retaining oversight). We can provide specifically skilled resources to meet client requirements.

Transaction support assignments can be very specific and relate only to the provision of particular services such as financial due diligence or pricing and underwriting assistance for example or can be very broad and extensive providing a complete ‘Deal management service’ (in which we take a ‘project management’ role and work alongside clients to execute transactions participating in all aspects of the deal cycle from origination to completion).

Nigel Chapman

Nigel is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with a successful career in the hotels, leisure and hospitality market spanning almost 30 years. Nigel was the founder of the well renowned Luxury Family Hotels (LFH) chain which was sold to Von Essen in 2005 and in 2011 Nigel led the buy back of LFH in partnership with Patron Capital. Nigel is currently the CEO of the group which has 8 hotels trading under its banner. Between 2005 and 2010 Nigel also led the planning, fund raising (debt and equity totalling c.€100m) and development of the four hundred bedroom, five star, family friendly Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel on the Algarve in Portugal. Nigel has led multiple other hotel investments which have achieved attractive returns for investors over a sustained period of time. These projects include Alias hotels, Polurrian Bay Hotel and the five star Relais & Chateau Sheen Falls Lodge in Kenmare Co. Kerry.

Prior to his long and successful career in the hotel, leisure and hospitality market Nigel was the senior partner of Chapman Wong a central London based firm of chartered accountants specialising in strategic planning and corporate finance.

Henry Elston

Henry is Investment Director at T&B Capital. Prior to joining ABT, Henry worked at a leading leisure focused boutique advisory and private equity firm. He gained experience working on transactions of varying sizes across Europe, USA and Asia, as well as a number of strategic review mandates in the leisure sector. He also worked on fundraising, refinancing and restructuring, portfolio company management and acquisitions, all of which required a highly tailored approach.

Prior to that Henry spent two years working at Sky focusing on business optimization, efficiency programs, managing new business propositions and supporting strategic decision making as part of the commercial finance team.

He began his career at PwC where he worked in the Investment Management assurance team. Henry is a Chartered Accountant and graduated with BA (Hons) in Economics & Management from St Edmund Hall, Oxford