Roy is a Partner at Argyll and has thirteen years of corporate finance experience advising founders, shareholders and investors in a number of sectors including retail and consumer. Roy’s experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, equity fundraisings, management buy-outs and restructuring.
Select transactions in Roy’s career include:
fundraising for The Fold, a rapidly growing digitally native womenswear brand
sale of Explore Learning, the UK’s leading provider of tuition for primary school children, to Graphite Capital
sale of James Heal, a UK-based global leader in the manufacture of textile testing equipment, to US private equity firm Battery Ventures
acquisition of Wex Photographic and Calumet by AURELIUS to form Europe’s leading omnichannel vendor of products for photography enthusiasts and professional photographers
management buy-out of Smoothwall, the market leading provider of dynamic web filtering technology for the education and public sectors, supported by Tenzing
management buy-out of Hobbycraft, the UK’s largest arts & crafts retailer, supported by Bridgepoint Capital
Prior to Argyll, Roy worked in the Banking & Capital Markets team at PwC. He also spent four years working as an equity analyst in the Middle Market team at UBS.
Roy is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.