LAVA Advisory Partners is delighted to welcome Tom Rowe-Jones to their growing team. Tom, with his strategy consulting and M&A Operations background, will add to the teams already extensive experience in international transactions as well as mid-market deals for both corporate and private equity clients. His self-declared passion for M&A, when combined with his strategic focus and meticulous thought process will be of huge benefit to LAVA Advisory’s clients.
Tom joins LAVA after excelling in the M&A Operations Advisory team at Deloitte in London. Whilst there, Tom played an integral part in delivering operational and cost due diligence services as well as advising his clients on strategic opportunities and additional value capture through M&A. Tom has worked on multiple international engagements, providing him with a broad experience of cross-border transactions.
Tom Rowe-Jones, Associate Director
Tom’s appointment comes after another successful completed transaction for LAVA and a growing pipeline of engaged projects in the mid-market M&A space which underpins our growth strategy for the year ahead. I am excited to be able to leverage Tom’s experience to help identify and harness operational efficiencies in consolidation transactions and within our buy-and-build playbooks.
Simon Woodcock Founder and Partner of LAVA Advisory Partners
Tom commented, “I am incredibly excited to join the team here at LAVA. The team’s bold approach, coupled with its emphasis on creative and strategic thinking, will ensure we find the best M&A solutions for our clients. To have the opportunity to help us reach our ambitions and those of our clients is something that I feel very lucky to be a part of.”
Tom’s arrival comes soon after the hire of Dorota Filipkowska and is a further reflection of LAVA Advisory’s growth plans. The firm expects to make further people announcements in the near future as it continues to add to its team, with Tom already working hard on several live mandates. Tom’s background compliments LAVA Advisory’s skill at identifying consolidation and value creation opportunities across sectors. The result being a continuation of defining market leading M&A options for its clients.
LAVA’s prides itself in its skin-in-the-game approach, putting clients’ needs first and ensuring their long-term objectives are aligned with their clients. In addition to the firm’s recent investment in Source BMX alongside BGF, the team are working on several exciting opportunities which they hope to announce soon.
