Lawrence Price
Managing Director
Lawrence has over 18 years lead advisory corporate finance experience working with privately owned companies. Lawrence’s work includes sales, acquisitions, MBO/MBI, and fund-raising with completed transactions ranging from £1m to £75m in value. With experience of over 100 transactions, these include the sales of Rubicon Drinks to AG Barr, Kittiwake Developments to Parker Hannifin Inc and Core Design to Omnicom Inc.
Previous experience includes heading up the Thames Valley office of a London-based corporate finance firm, TMT corporate finance experience with Longacre Partners, now part of Jefferies. Prior roles include Operations Business Manager, British American Racing Formula One team. Lawrence now also enjoys a strong relationship with the Said Business School, having been invited to sit on their financial services panel, and is also non-executive director to two successful private businesses.
MBA (Finance & Entrepreneurship), Imperial College Business School, London
Advanced Corporate Finance, London Business School
MEng (Aeronautical Engineering), Imperial College, London
E: lawrence.price@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7900 212 669
William Aylward
Director
William is responsible for managing research and transactions within a range of sectors including leisure and business services. Some recent transactions that William has been involved with include the sale of Clarice Leisure to Bannatyne Fitness, the sale of the Pinnacle Marketing to Next Fifteen Group, and the Young Black sale to Indutrade (industrial tools). Prior to Rockworth, William worked for Alchemy Partners, the London based Private Equity fund.
BASc (Engineering Physics/Applied Physics), University of Bath
MEng (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Imperial College, London
E: william.aylward@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7795 123 144
Tom Boardman-Weston
Director
Tom is responsible for managing transactions and their associated research. Tom’s recent work includes transactions in the areas of healthcare (selling Cromptons Healthcare to MIP), food and drink (most recently selling the luxury Italian food distributor La Credenza to the french firm, La Repertoire Cullinaire) and distribution (H-Squared sale to Newbury Investments) but his experience also includes financial and business services transactions. Prior to Rockworth, Tom was COO of Semblent, a data-focussed financial services business, and before this he was an analyst at New Link Consulting.
MJur (History of Chartered Companies), University of Durham
LLB, University of Durham
E: tom.boardman-weston@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7977 276 210
John Buckley
Manager
John is responsible for financial analysis, valuation and due diligence aspects associated with our transactional work.
Before joining Rockworth, John worked for hedge fund administrators State Street Alternative Investment Solutions and HedgeServ, in Dublin, dealing with clients with AUMs ranging from $25m to over £1billion. Primary responsibilities included calculating NAV’s for dealing date valuations and analysis. After which John moved into Business Transformation where he was involved in the analysis, deployment and adoption of business information systems.
BBus (Hons) Accounting, Cork Institute of Technology
FACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
E: john.buckley@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7824 645 234
Zuzana Valkovic
Director
Zuzana leads the due diligence and financial modelling work for many of our transactions. Prior to Rockworth, Zuzana worked in the transaction advisory services team of KPMG in Vienna, her transaction experience includes working across a range of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, banking, energy, postal services and logistics.
MSc International Management / CEMS, Vienna University of Economics and Business
BSc Business Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business
E: zuzana.valkovic@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7982 752 380
Claire Wheeler
Manager
Claire is responsible for company & market research, as well as financial analysis aspects associated with our transactional work.
Before joining Rockworth, Claire worked at Fast Track where she researched the fastest-growing private companies in the UK and wrote articles for publication in The Sunday Times. Prior to that she qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in London.
ACA, ICAEW
BSc (Geography), Durham University
E: claire.wheeler@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7825 777 104
Tania Wilson
Associate Director
Tania has 14 years’ professional experience focused on business and share valuation and transaction advice. Tania leads our pre-transaction planning offering as well as getting involved in positioning and negotiations for various clients. Prior to joining Rockworth Management Partners, she led the South-East Valuations practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with smaller listed companies and privately-owned businesses on a range of valuation engagements for commercial, tax and financial reporting purposes. She is a non-executive director to a social enterprise and a trustee of a large Oxfordshire-based charity.
BA Maths (Cambridge 1st Class)
MPhil Economics (Oxford)
Chartered Management Accountant
E: tania.wilson@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7725 827 852
Debbie Naude
Associate Director
Over 17 years management consultancy and Investment Banking experience. Previous experience includes Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in South Africa and London, and UBS Warburg, London.
MBA (Finance), Imperial College, London
BCom Marketing, (Hons), University of Pretoria
E: debbie.naude@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
Associates and Advisory Panel
Whilst Rockworth works across various sectors, team members tend to be sector specialists. We also work with individuals currently in senior roles in industry (Chairman, CEO etc) to provide additional insight into particular projects.