GP Bullhound

GP Bullhound
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Type	Private
Industry	Investment Banking, Digital Content, eCommerce, software and hardware
Founded	1999
Headquarters	London U.K.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Hugh Campbell (Co-Founder) Manish Madhvani (Co-Founder) Per Roman (Co-Founder) Martin Smith (Chairman) Mark Sebba (Board Director) Mathias Ackermand (Board Director) Staffan Ingeborn (Board Director) Graeme Bayley (Partner/COO) Guillaume Bonneton (Partner) Alec Dafferner (Partner)) Simon Nicholls (Partner) Sven Raeymaekers (Partner) Julian Riedlbauer (Partner) Andre Shortell (Partner) Ali Dagli (Partner) Robert Ahldin (Partner) Ann Grevelius (Partner)
Products	Investment banking Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Placements Asset Management (Sidecar)
Number of employees	45
Website	GP Bullhound

As dealmakers in technology, GP Bullhound provides independent strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions and private placements to entrepreneurs, companies and investors. By combining a true passion for innovation with great access to global buyers and capital across Europe, US and Asia, GP Bullhound has completed transactions with many category leaders including Avito, Delivery Hero, Fjord, King.com, Pingdom, Pozitron and Spotify. The firm was founded in London in 1999 and today also has offices in San Francisco, Stockholm, Berlin and Manchester.

GP Bullhound has an international team of 40 experienced corporate financiers focused on the technology sector, and as a firm they have closed over 200 successful transactions since 1999.

History

GP Bullhound was founded in 1999 and is headquartered at 52 Jermyn Street in London, with additional offices in San Francisco (USA), Stockholm (Sweden), Berlin (Germany) and Manchester. The firm has a strong foothold in Europe and offers clients a global reach to investors and the financial markets. GP Bullhound is a research centric investment bank and publishes monthly sector reports in the areas of Digital Content, eCommerce, software and hardware and has completed over 1200 successful M&A and Private Placement transactions since it was established.

In 2015, the firm was awarded M&A Boutique Investment Bank of the Year at the M&A Atlas Awards and Best Technology Dealmakers at the Acquisition International M&A Awards. In 2014, GP Bullhound was awarded Best M&A Firm at the Bully Awards, and won the Award for Financial Services Deal of the Year at the M&A Advisor Dealmaker’s Awards with the sale of Pozitron to Monitise. Co-founding partner Hugh Campbell was named one of North West 42 Under 42 by Insider Media. In 2013 the firm was awarded two awards at Acquisition International's M&A Awards 2013; UK Boutique Investment Bank of the Year and Leading Advisers of the Year. Co-founding partner Manish Madhvani was named Dealmaker of the Year at the M&A Advisor 40 Under 40 Award. In 2010 the firm was awarded four separate awards; Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year, M&A Boutique Investment Bank of the Year, Deal of the Year and Green Deal of the Year, for the being the sole M&A advisor on the sale of Concentrix Solar.

Recent M&A transactions include; Essence (sold to WPP), Designit (sold to Wipro), 13th Lab (sold to Facebook), Pingdom (sold to Solarwinds), Pozitron (sold to Monitise), Steelseries (sold to Catterton Partners), Klarna (sale of Secondary stakes), Fjord (sold to Accenture) and Tunigo (sold to Spotify). Recent private placements include Prodigy Finance, Believe Digital, MyOptique Group, Delivery Hero, Avito.

Expert commentary and Events

The firm is an established thought leader and is regularly asked to provide commentaries on Bloomberg, CNN International, CNBC Europe and BBC World as well as print media, keynoting and moderating industry conferences. GP Bullhound takes an active role in the technology entrepreneurial ecosystem by participating in industry conferences and has also founded and continues to manage important industry events such as Investor Allstars, GP Bullhound Summit featuring the Unicorn Summit Awards and Northern Tech Awards. GP Bullhound is also one of the backers of SUP46.

Investor Allstars was founded in 2002, and is with 600+ attendees an established event for the European entrepreneurial and investment community. The awards recognise Europe’s leading investors and risk takers and have been labelled the “Oscars” for the European venture capital community. The 13th annual Investor Allstars in 2015, presented by GP Bullhound and Vitesse Media, celebrated a year of great investments, fantastic exits and entrepreneurship. During the day, at Europe's Allstar Company, 100 selected Investors voted for the company they regard as Europe’s most valuable technology company. Finalists included: Auctionata, Believe Digital, LendInvest, HelloFresh and Sigfox. This was run in association with Bloomberg TV.

With the general scepticism and reluctance to invest in tech start-ups following the Dot.com meltdown in 2000-2002, the firm wanted to showcase and celebrate the exciting developments happening in this sector and in 2004, the firm launched Media Momentum. The event has developed into the GP Bullhound Summit, a prominent invitation-only event hosting 100 of the leading entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the European digital scene. The Summit and awards take place in a different tech hotspot each year. The event is free, run as not-for-profit and financed by GP Bullhound and a small group of sponsors wishing to support entrepreneurship in Europe. Sponsors for 2015 included Berenberg, London Stock Exchange, Olswang, Scottish Equity Partners, Barclays, and Lakestar.

In 2013, GP Bullhound took over the Northern Tech Awards, recognising the fastest growing companies in the North of UK. The event is an established annual gathering for CEOs and Founders to network and the awards provide a platform for technology companies to achieve recognition for their success. Sponsors for 2014 included Squire Patton Boggs, Barclays, Frazer John Recruitment, Smedvig Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Business Growth Fund, Enterprise Ventures, Berenberg, London Stock Exchange, Scottish Equity Partners and Crowdcube.

Research

Since being founded, GP Bullhound has written extensive and independent technology sector research focused on the areas of Digital Content, eCommerce, software and hardware. The firm’s research is distributed to an exclusive group of leading institutional investors in both Europe and the US before being made available more widely.

Recent research has covered Digital Healthcare, European Unicorns, Tech Trends, Online Payments, Real Time Bidding, Big Data Analytics, The Connected Car, Online Fashion and Turkish Internet.

References

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