Mark Lucas
Managing Director
Corporate Finance
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Mark is a corporate finance specialist; his expertise includes working for a wide range of clients across many sectors, enabling them to create, build, grow and ultimately realise their value. His sector experience includes manufacturing, logistics and distribution, business services, telecoms and IT as well as professional services.
Mark is a managing director and heads up the corporate finance team with Ian Barton. He has over 25 years’ experience in corporate finance and has a demonstrable track record of leading complex transactions of different sizes across a variety of sectors.
He is jointly focused on ensuring high-quality levels of service and offers his unrivalled expertise to guide entrepreneurs and businesses through a transaction or transition by successfully helping them fulfil their ambitions. He also plays a principal role in growing the Quantuma’s corporate finance practice and realising the firm’s ambition of it becoming the go-to advisory firm for mid-market businesses. Mark’s natural ability to build strong relationships, his appetite for success and the positive energy he brings to transactions makes him one of the most respected professionals in his industry.
Mark qualified as a chartered accountant in 1989 and prior to joining Quantuma in 2017, worked for one of the big four audit practices and a number of top ten accountancy firms where he held senior positions. He also was a partner at a corporate finance boutique, where he helped establish a wider advisory and compliance practice, which after four years, was sold with Mark leading the transaction.
About Mark
Mark is both a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales as well as a fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Outside of work, Mark enjoys a variety of sports such as golf, skiing and trekking. A holder of season tickets for both Arsenal and Southampton, Mark also frequently enjoys watching football with his sons. Built for stamina, not speed, Mark has ambitious plans to conquer the world’s highest mountain.
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Business advisory firm Quantuma has bolstered its Southampton team with the appointment of director, Kelly Semke (nee Mitchell).
Carl Jackson and Simon Campbell of business advisory firm Quantuma have been appointed as joint administrators to specialist commercial refrigeration supplier Capital Cooling Refrigeration Limited.
Business advisory firm Quantuma has completed a merger with AIM-listed K3 Capital Group plc (AIM: K3C), for an initial consideration of £26.95m, to create an independent global advisory practice.
Business advisory firm Quantuma continues the expansion of its Thames Valley team with the appointment of new director, Michael Hall.
Simon Bonney and Carl Jackson have been named joint administrators to six companies each owning a separate hotel which were part of the Shepherd Cox Hotel brand.
Frank Wessely and Nick Parsk of business advisory firm Quantuma have been appointed as joint administrators of John Anderson Hire Ltd and associated Group companies.
Business advisory firm Quantuma has completed a merger with Scotland’s leading independent insolvency provider WRI Associates (WRI).
Business advisory firm Quantuma provided lead advisory services to the shareholder, Alex James, on the disposal of his shares in Purepoint to Ascent Software, an investee business of Horizon Capital.
Andrew Watling and Carl Jackson of business advisory firm Quantuma have been appointed as Joint Administrators to Romsey World of Water.
On 6th March nine brave members of our Quantuma team from around the UK have volunteered to take part in a skydive, raising money for mental health charity Mind.
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Whilst the measures announced today by the Business Secretary, Alok Sharma, are designed to provide further assistance to businesses who have been critically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, they will not remedy the significant changes which the business community currently face.
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has called time on the 2019/20 season and now the boardrooms are fully focussed on planning for next season without the distraction of a league restructure.
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