South: James Cowper strengthens award-winning corporate finance team

Thames Valley and south coast accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointment of Caleb Lewington.  

With over eight years' experience in the corporate finance market, Lewington joined from Serco's commercial finance team where he worked across high-profile bids, M&A projects and developing commercial propositions across a range of sectors including defense, transport, healthcare and home affairs business units.  Prior to this, he was manager at Grant Thornton in the corporate finance team in Southampton.

Commenting on the appointment, partner and head of corporate finance Nick Rogers, said: “We are delighted to welcome Caleb to James Cowper and the corporate finance team.  His corporate finance and wider commercial experience will add valuable expertise to both our clients and transactions.  The appointment, driven by our exceptional deal completion rate over the past 18 months or so, takes the team to seven.”

Lewington added: “James Cowper’s corporate finance team has a strong reputation in providing high-quality advice to a diverse and growing client base across the region.  I am delighted to be joining the team and look forward to continuing to build and work on a healthy pipeline of transactions, whilst maximising outcomes for our clients.”

James Cowper’s corporate finance team has completed nine deals with a combined value of £114.3m in the first eight months of 2014.