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Service: Financial Due Diligence
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Alex Aitchison
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Madeleine Andrews
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Ed Brentnall
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Sophie Colloby
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Josh Davison
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James Francis
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Steve Holmes
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Richard Hooper
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Cameron Hunter
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Ros Jones
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James Killing
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Catriona Lang
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Declan Littler
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Rob Parker
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Tom Rowe
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Jonathan Steed
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Alex Aitchison
Alex started his career with PWC, joining as a school leaver in 2016. As part of the external audit team, he worked with a broad spectrum of businesses including manufacturing and logistics companies, building societies and asset management firms, and specialized in the audit of pension schemes, building an understanding of their structure and the … Continued
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Madeleine Andrews
Madeleine joined DSW Transaction Services in 2022 as an Apprentice Financial Analyst. Madeleine joins from The King’s School Chester and will be studying for an accounting qualification while learning financial due diligence skills. Transaction Services – Daresbury Office
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Ed Brentnall
Ed jointly heads the financial due diligence business, Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services LLP, which he helped to establish in December 2008. Ed qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Manchester and Minneapolis (USA) and then spent 5 years in their transaction services team. During this period Ed worked for a number of clients … 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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Josh Davison
Josh joined the DSW London Transaction Services team in February 2022. After gaining a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance and a master’s degree in Management (International Business), Josh qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with RSM in the Audit department where he gained audit experience across a wide range of industries with exposure to … Continued
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James Francis
James joined the DSW London Transaction Services team in December 2019. Having gained an Economics degree from Exeter University, James qualified as an Accountant with RSM and was based in their Forensic accounting department assisting with fraud investigations, loss of profit claims, transaction disputes and business valuations. Since joining DSW, he has worked on a … Continued
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Steve Holmes
Steve joined in September 2021 to co-found the Thames Valley office based in Reading with fellow Partner, Carla Holmes. Steve will head the financial due diligence offering and Carla will provide tax advisory services to the local business community Steve is a qualified Chartered Accountant (2002) and obtained the ICAEW’s Corporate Finance designation is 2010. … Continued
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Richard Hooper
Richard joined DSW in June 2018 to establish the Transaction Services team in London and comes with 20 years of experience providing specialist financial due diligence and transaction related services. He has worked on a range of private equity and corporate transactions, on both buyside and sell side roles, with services covering due diligence, transaction … Continued
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Cameron Hunter
Cameron joined Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services in Yorkshire in January 2020. Prior to this he spent three years in the audit department of Mazars LLP, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. During his time at Mazars, Cameron lead audits on a wide variety of clients, including property investment and development, manufacturing and renewable … Continued
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Ros Jones
Ros joined Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services in April 2015. She is an experienced Transaction Services practitioner, having previously been a manager in the M&A team at Midlands-based financial advisory firm, Hazlewoods, where she specialised in health and social care transactions. Most recently, Ros also has significant practical industry experience as a group financial accountant … Continued
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James Killing
James joined DSW in June 2018 to establish the Transaction Services team in London. James joined from RSM, having spent the last thirteen years providing financial due diligence services (both on the buy side and sell side) to mid-market and lower mid-market private equity houses. His experience covers a variety of sectors, including recruitment, manufacturing, … Continued
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Catriona Lang
Catriona jointly heads the financial due diligence business Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services LLP, which she established in December 2008 with Ed Brentnall. Prior to this she spent 9 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in audit, before moving to their Transaction Services team in Manchester and London. Catriona has … Continued
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Declan Littler
Declan joined the Dow Schofield Watts Transaction Services team in 2023. Declan graduated in 2017 with a 1st in Accounting and Finance, after which he travelled to Australia to gain experience as a Financial Accountant in Industry. Upon his return to the UK, he spent a year at Bank of America as a Financial Analyst … Continued
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Rob Parker
Rob is a Director in the Transaction Services team having joined DSW TS in October 2015. After graduating with a degree in Economics from The University of Manchester, Rob qualified as a chartered accountant with a regional firm in Manchester and then spent two years with Grant Thornton. Rob has worked on a variety of … Continued
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Tom Rowe
Tom joined the DSW London Transaction Services team in November 2021. Prior to joining DSW, he gained a degree in Economics from the University of Exeter before joining PwC, where he worked in financial statement audit and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. During his time at PwC, Tom provided audit services to a range of … Continued
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Jonathan Steed
Jonathan joined Dow Schofield Watts as a Partner in 2020. He qualified with PwC and has more than 20 years’ financial due diligence experience with Big 4 firms, latterly with KPMG. He has advised corporate and private equity clients on strategic buy-side and sell-side transactions across a wide range of deal sizes and sectors. He … Continued