Vincents closes £8m of deals in three months

The new corporate team at Vincents Solicitors has closed more than £8m of deals in its first three months.

The Preston-based team, which is lead by recently appointed head of corporate Matthew Scott, supported the sale or acquisition of eight nursery and childcare businesses.

Working with fellow Preston-based business broker Redwood Dowling Kerr (RDK), Vincents facilitated a mixture of share, asset and property sales, plus share and asset acquisitions, for nursery owners in London, Manchester, Surrey, the North East and Norfolk.

Matthew, who specialises in nursery and care home transactions and has more than 200 sales under his belt, said: “We’ve had a very busy start to life at Vincents and it’s great to get all eight across the line so quickly. Each transaction represents a business owner who has been able to achieve their aims, whether through expansion or disposal, with the reassurance of a highly experienced team supporting them through it.

“One of my ambitions at Vincents is to bridge that gap for SMEs who want to secure the best deal but assume they need to go to Manchester or London for their advisory team. Clearly that’s not the case and, together with one of the UK’s most active brokers in RDK, we are working to facilitate more corporate deals than ever before.”