BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

Marcus joined Acuity in 2014, before which he held senior leadership and corporate finance positions with some of the UK’s most successful advisory and telecoms businesses. Roles with EE, KPMG Corporate Finance and BDO Corporate Finance have seen Marcus work in the UK and across the globe with successful entrepreneurs seeking exit, and at board level with multi-national corporates looking for growth through organic and inorganic investment.

Marcus qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG, and has considerable experience working across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. He has always been drawn to the business models and personalities of cutting edge, entrepreneurial businesses. Equally at home discussing the merits of different network technologies, alternative payments, detailed financials and the future of digital marketing, Marcus has a track record of quickly identifying and articulating the value in a business or proposition.

With years of experience and successful transactions to his name, Marcus is well known and respected by entrepreneurs, corporates and private equity houses in the UK and overseas, and he has gained a reputation as being interested, astute, engaged and pragmatic.

“Marcus was brilliant for us, leading a well-informed team who had researched the market even before we appointed them. Obviously highly experienced, we found Marcus well-versed in accountancy practices and with just the right degree of push to the potential acquirers. The IM was highly praised by all who read it with one comment that it was the best they had ever seen. Above all, I am very keen to praise Marcus who we considered reflected the passion and success of our company and whom we trusted implicitly to give us the right advice.”

JOHN KENT
Chairman, Traka plc

AFTER WORK

Marcus is married with three children but still finds time to run, hike and serve as an officer in the London Regiment (Army Reserve).

CLIENT SUCCESSES

 

Acuity advises Macquarie Capital and Tiger Infrastructure backed Voneus, on its acquisition of the trade and assets of Broadway Partners

Acuity advise Mondago on its strategic investment from Akixi

Acuity acts as lead advisor to Pure IP on its sale to BCM One

Acuity advises Qube GB on its sale to ICG-backed Circet

Acuity advises Spring Fibre on its £155 million funding from River and Mercantile

Acuity advises Lothian Broadband Group on its £20 million cornerstone funding from The Scottish National Investment Bank

Acuity advise Broadway Partners on its £145 million funding from Downing LLP

Acuity & Q Advisors Represent Mission Labs in Its Acquisition by Gamma Communications

Acuity advises LDC on investment into network performance & security specialist Phoenix Datacom

Foresight completes investment into Lightning Fibre to bring hyperfast broadband connectivity to the South East

Windsor Telecom accelerates growth

Acuity advises US-based MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services LLC on their sale to PE-backed RENA Technologies GmbH

Acuity secures investment from FPE Capital in Kallik, a leading provider of Labelling and Artwork Management SaaS solutions to the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sectors

Acuity advises Community Fibre on their £50m funding boost from RPMI and Amber Infrastructure

Acuity advised Call Flow on their €30m investment to bring full-fibre broadband to further small towns in South East England

Acuity advises CommuniGator on cross-border sale to Spotler

Ncam Technologies Limited secures investment from YFM Equity Partners

TrueSpeed Communications Ltd secures funding from Aviva plc

Merger of Sub10 Systems with Fastback Networks

Sale of 3V Transaction Services Limited to SafeCharge