Sponsors
Main sponsor
We are your PwC
We get you want someone with you for the journey. We work with over 16,000 private companies across the country and help them solve important problems and achieve their growth potential.
We can help you spot opportunities for growth, manage risk, save money and create value and will work with you to put all the pieces together. We are focused on building long-term relationships, based on honesty, trust and commitment, and work with our clients through the ups and downs.
Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at https://www.pwc.co.uk/private-business-private-clients.html
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“As part of my role as Chairman of the judging panel, I have again had the pleasure of meeting many of the nominees and shortlisted companies and I am always excited by the passion, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit shown by those I meet."
Brian Henderson
Partner, PwC
Gold sponsor
As one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory groups, we offer a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients’ businesses and wealth.
We provide independent advice on M&A, strategy and financing, as well as investment and wealth management solutions to large institutions, families, individuals and Governments worldwide.
As a family-controlled business we have always been driven by the Rothschild family motto “Concordia, Integritas, Industria” (“Harmony, Integrity, Industry”). These values remain at the heart of our guiding principles on how we do business to this day.
To find out more, please visit our website: www.rothschild.com
Sponsors
At City law firm Fox Williams, we advise businesses at every stage of their lifecycle, whether on funding growth, strategic transactions or governance – or on the exit that will realise their value.
We understand the pressures on owners, funders and investors and we support and advise our clients throughout, delivering the full complement of legal services.
Clients instruct us first and foremost for our City quality, experience and expertise. Through our client service, industry knowledge, commercial approach and by providing great value for money, we seek to become our clients’ trusted business advisers.
"Overwhelming sense of commerciality and strong ethos of customer service." Corporate client quoted in Chambers UK, 2018.
To find out more, please visit our website: www.foxwilliams.com
Goodwill Solutions CIC is a truly unique warehousing and logistics company that is committed to positive social change through profitable business.
Based in Northampton and having a quarter of a million square feet of warehouse space we provide a range of cost-effective logistics and support functions. We specialise in fulfilment and understand our customers’ requirements. With a positive “can-do” approach to business.
We invest our commercial revenues into community welfare projects – helping businesses achieve their social responsibility goals, without accruing any extra cost.
Liberum is an independent investment bank with offices in London and New York. Founded in 2007, we believed then, as we do now, that doing the right thing by our clients at all times is the path to success.
Our Equities division provides sales, research and trading services to institutional investors, specialising in all-cap pan-European equity research across ten pillars with deep sector knowledge.
Our Investment Banking division provides advice and execution services to UK plcs, including corporate broking, equity capital markets and M&A.
Liberum’s success was most recently reflected in the 2017 Extel Awards, at which Liberum was voted top three in 15 categories, including No.1 UK Small and Mid-Cap Corporate Broking.
Design Portfolio was established nearly 30 years ago to provide corporate and investor communications expertise.
We partner with companies of all sizes and from all sectors but they all share a similar challenge – how to tell a great story.
We help companies better understand the story they want to tell and advise them on how to communicate it more effectively.
As a team of over 60 communication professionals, we are well versed in delivering:
- Corporate reporting
- Digital communications
- Investor communications
- Sustainability communications
- Internal communications
- Multimedia
We offer a blend of considered creativity and expert consultancy, delivered by dedicated teams through a personal and hands-on service.
To find out more about how Design Portfolio can help you, please email us: [email protected].
Or visit www.design-portfolio.co.uk
UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. UBS' strategy is centred on its leading global wealth management business and its premier universal bank in Switzerland, enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in 52 countries, including all major financial centres, and employs approximately 60,000 people. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organised as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors.
As the world's largest wealth manager, UBS Global Wealth Management provides comprehensive advice, solutions and services to wealthy families and individuals around the world. Clients who work with UBS benefit from a fully integrated set of wealth management capabilities and expertise, including wealth planning, investment management, capital markets, banking, lending and institutional and corporate financial advice.
www.ubs.com
Launch Insurance Brokers is a specialist broker which provides Sports, Media and High Net Worth professionals with insurance policies ranging from Motor, Household and Property portfolios.
Having a wealth of experience working with individuals in niche professions, we understand our clients’ needs. Our clients include TV, media and sports professionals, in addition to others that have a variety of complex and detailed insurance requirements.
We ensure every client is given a bespoke service according to their needs, delivered with the utmost confidentiality and loyalty. Our dedicated team will always offer a personalised and proactive approach, resulting in a service you can trust.
Lombard Odier is an independently owned and innovative wealth manager dedicated to preserving and growing its clients’ assets. We have a simple philosophy: “Rethink Everything”. Our agile responses to a changing world have delivered 222 years of stability through 40 financial crises.
We are a partnership. Our partners are entrepreneurs. In some cases, they represent the seventh generation of their families at Lombard Odier. Coupled with our powerful capital position and freedom from market pressures, that gives us strength and continuity for the future.
We believe in human relationships powered by cutting-edge technology and investment innovation. For a quarter-century we have invested to create a single, global banking platform. Our award-winning investment team deploys that technology to deliver truly bespoke solutions which meet the individual goals of demanding clients.
Family Business United (FBU) is an innovative, award-winning magazine, resource centre and events organisation championing the contribution that family businesses make to the global economy. FBU has family businesses at the heart of all that it does and was formed by Paul Andrews, who has extensive knowledge, insight and understanding of the sector.
FBU shares best practice, insights, research and more besides to help family firms deal with the unique issues they face, and continues to break new ground with innovative ways to champion the family business sector and is at the fore of social media for family firms globally.
Find out more about FBU, the work we do and consider becoming a member too.