Pollen Street today announces the acquisition of a majority stake in Leonard Curtis, a leading corporate restructuring provider operating across the UK and offshore.

The multi-disciplinary professional services firm, which is headquartered in Manchester, has over 30 years’ experience providing restructuring, legal, funding, M&A advisory and other business services to SMEs and corporates.

Leonard Curtis has built a trusted brand, strong national footprint and deep sector expertise, expanding rapidly through a combination of organic growth, geographical expansion and acquisitions. The business now has more than 330 professionals across 30 offices.

Leonard Curtis has a well-established referral community throughout the business services industry, including its own Lifecycle network, which enables over 3,000 regional accountancy practices to help their clients by accessing support, advice and solutions to financial and operational issues at every stage of their clients’ business lifecycle.

The group will continue to be led by current CEO Dan Booth, and Pollen Street’s investment will accelerate growth across the platform through product expansion, technology and M&A.

Jonathan Guest, Investment Director at Pollen Street, commented:

"Leonard Curtis is a high-quality business with a proven model, experienced leadership, and has demonstrated strong organic growth in the UK and offshore. We are proud of our track record of supporting fast-growing players in the financial and business services ecosystems, and are looking forward to partnering with the team for the next stage of Leonard Curtis’s growth, as it diversifies and scales organically, and further consolidates the fragmented UK professional services market.”

Daniel Booth, CEO of Leonard Curtis, added:

“The partnership and investment from Pollen Street Capital will allow the business to move forward and better execute our plans to grow and develop the group. We have our sights on building a business that is sustainable for many years to come and to represent something that we can all be proud to be a part of. None of this would be possible without the hard work, commitment and brilliance of our people. We are building something very special here, and I truly hope we all continue this journey together to be better every day. In years to come, we all want to be able to look back and know we played a positive part.”