05 May 2017

We are delighted to announce that Eddie Harding, Partner at ICON Corporate Finance has been shortlisted for Deal Maker of the Year 2017.

Alan Bristow, Founder and CEO of ICON, commented: “We are delighted to be shortlisted and included in categories which recognise our firm, deal transactions and individual staff achievements. The last year was a very exciting year for us and this momentum continues into 2017. ICON has recently sold companies to Accenture, NTT, Thomson Reuters, Telstra, RWE Npower and Aberdeen Asset Management and Eddie’s nomination reflects his significant role in a number of successful deals in the past year.

Eddie specialises in M&A and funding for tech companies has been recognised for securing £4.1m Series A round investment from YFM Equity Partners for Matillion, a data integration technology company with a market leading product on Amazon Web Services marketplace. Eddie’s others deals include over 60 transactions including: the sale of digital Wealth Management software platform provider Parmenion to FTSE 100 listed Aberdeen Asset Management, the Private Equity investment in FinTech reconciliation software company Merit Software by Synova Capital and the sale of ultra low latency Financial Data messaging software company my-Channels to Software AG.

The Finance Monthly M&A Awards is one of the most sought after accolades in Corporate Finance. Now in its 8th year the awards celebrate excellence and exist to recognise and celebrate those companies and individuals who have delivered the highest quality results and have excelled their clients’ expectations over the last 12 months.