PRCA Financial Directors Forum: Breakfast briefing

Event Overview

Kingston Smith would like to invite you to the next PRCA FD Forum breakfast briefing on Thursday 16 May 2019.

During this session, Paul Winterflood, Corporate Finance Director, will share an overview of the M&A activity in the sector, looking at the different types of acquirers and what our expectations are for the market in 2019 and beyond.

In addition to this, we will look at the ways that you can build value in your business, what acquirers are looking for and common reasons why agencies don’t sell. 

This is will be the perfect forum to share your views and long term objectives with like-minded peers and we always aim for this session to be as interactive as possible.

About the speaker
Paul Winterflood, Director, Corporate Finance, Kingston Smith LLP

Paul is a director in the Corporate Finance team specialising in the media and technology sectors. Paul is passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow and realise value in their business, and has a network of contacts at acquirers and funders. Recent transactions include the sales of integrated B2B agency DirectionGroup to Unlimited, content production specialist Zebra Worldwide Group to Creative Drive, entertainment specialist media buyer MJ Media to Once Upon a Time, the Theatre Royal Haymarket to Access Entertainment and the growth capital fundraises by Health-Tech company Triumph Research Intelligence and RegTech company Ubisecure.

Prior to joining the Corporate Finance team, Paul trained as a Chartered Accountant at Kingston Smith before completing a secondment at Morison KSi member firm Hill Rogers in Sydney.

 
About the Chair

Esther Carder, Media Partner, Kingston Smith LLP

Esther’s clients appreciate her professional approachable manner and her ability to deliver business advice in an unambiguous and easy-to-understand way. This, together with her depth of knowledge of the media sector, means that she is able to add commerciality to the technical advice that she gives.

Esther has some 21 years’ experience working with owner-managed businesses and has been a partner specialising in the media and marketing services industry for 14 years, an area she is passionate about. She describes the sector as not only interesting, but motivating because of the energetic and entrepreneurial people it attracts. In her own words: ‘If there can be a sexy area of accountancy, then media is it!’

Esther has responsibility for a portfolio of clients in the marketing services sector. As well as advising on routine areas of compliance such as audit and tax, she also advises regularly on specialist areas, including employee incentive schemes and valuations. She also works closely alongside M&A transactions, advising on pre-sale grooming and tax planning, company restructures and due diligence.

Esther is Treasurer of BIMA. She also speaks regularly at seminars, is widely quoted in trade press and is involved with the scrutiny of the submissions to the annual PR Week Top 150 and Design Week Top 100.

We look forward to seeing you!

This event is worth 15 points in the PRCA CPD Programme.