UHY Hacker Young Manchester strengthens corporate finance team with new partner

The Manchester office of national accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young has expanded its corporate finance team with the appointment of new partner, Peter Williams.

Peter brings with him a wealth of experience from Big 4 PwC and other regional Top 20 firms. He specialises in advising business owners on a broad spectrum of services, primarily assisting clients on transactional requirements such as business disposals, acquisitions, management buyouts and buy ins, fundraising and private equity related deals.

He brings additional experience to areas UHY Hacker Young currently advises on in a variety of sectors such as technology, media and telecoms, manufacturing, infrastructure and logistics.

The UHY Hacker Young Group is one of the UK’s Top 20 accountancy networks with 90 partners and more than 530 professional staff working from 23 locations around the country.

Peter said: “I’m very proud to be joining the team at UHY Hacker Young. David and the team have built a solid pipeline of work which I’m excited to help build upon to meet our growth aspirations and promote the UHY brand further. There is a fantastic culture at the firm and I’m looking forward to meeting, and working with, my new colleagues.”

David Kendrick, Partner and Head of Corporate Finance at UHY Hacker Young, said: “I am delighted to have Peter join the team. Over the past couple of years we have remained extremely busy despite COVID and the current pipeline is stronger than ever. I have no doubt Peter will drive the growth of the business in the coming years as we continue to develop the Corporate Finance team in Manchester.”