Yorkshire & North East Office
Address
4100 Park Approach
Thorpe Park
Leeds
LS15 8GB
Contact
Tel 0113 396 0101
Yorkshire & North East People
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Roger Esler
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Paul Herriott
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Richard Townsend
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Sophie Colloby
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Kate Beckett
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Richard Speight
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Bibin Johnson
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Matt Spence
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Jonathan Wilkinson
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Roger Esler
Roger joined Dow Schofield Watts in 2012 with specific responsibility for the Yorkshire & the North East office and team. Following graduation from Sheffield University and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Roger then gained over 20 years corporate finance experience at SG Hambros, KPMG and latterly Deloitte where he was a partner for over a … Continued
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Paul Herriott
Paul is a Director in the Corporate Finance team based in Leeds. He joined Dow Schofield Watts in September 2013. He has advised companies across the mid-market on transactions including trade sales, strategic acquisitions, MBOs, private equity and debt fundraising. He has broad sector experience across manufacturing, business support services, technology & software, transport & … Continued
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Richard Townsend
Richard joined Dow Schofield Watts as a Director in the Corporate Finance team in April 2017. Richard qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1987 and spent 3O years working in Commercial and Corporate Banking at Lloyds Banking Group dealing with SMEs through to FTSE 100 PLCs. Various roles in Relationship … Continued
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Sophie Colloby
Sophie joined Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services LLP in April 2017 as a Partner in the Yorkshire and North East practice. She has provided specialist financial due diligence and transaction related services since 2003. Sophie’s extensive experience includes advising corporates, entrepreneurs, finance providers and private equity funds, across a range of industries and transaction types … Continued
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Kate Beckett
Kate jointly heads DSW Bridge Houghton Forensic after joining Dow Schofield Watts Forensic LLP as a partner in September 2014. Kate previously trained at Deloitte, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2006 and transferring to the Forensic & Dispute Services team in the same year. In the past decade, Kate has developed a wide variety … Continued
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Richard Speight
Richard is a joint founding Partner in Dow Schofield Watts Wealth Advisory LLP, which he helped establish in 2015. He has over 15 years’ experience within the financial services sector, spending the previous four years with Grant Thornton UK LLP. Richard specialises in providing strategic planning advice to a wide range of clients including owner … Continued
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Bibin Johnson
Bibin studied Finance at Queen’s University Belfast where he also completed a placement year at Morgan Stanley. Following his graduation, he started a ACA training contract at PwC in Leeds. During his time, he completed many audits for listed and unlisted clients across UK in the industrial manufacturing and retail sectors with a revenue averaging … Continued
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Matt Spence
Matt Spence joined the Yorkshire & North East Corporate Finance team in September 2019. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 6 years of experience with Ernst & Young in Leeds. During this time, Matt’s clients included FTSE 100, 250, multinational groups and private mid-market businesses across a range of sectors including Manufacturing, Real Estate … Continued
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Jonathan Wilkinson
Jonathan joined DSW Corporate Finance in Yorkshire in September 2019. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a 1st class honours degree in Business Management with Finance in Manchester. Jonathan’s experience includes 3 years at Ernst & Young in Leeds where he worked with a wide range of regional businesses. In a previous role, Jonathan … Continued
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