Carpenter Box appoints new corporate finance director

Award-winning financial services firm Carpenter Box, with offices in the South East, has appointed a new corporate finance director.

Alistair Aird, who joined Carpenter Box’s growing team in late 2022, will focus on assisting SME business owners and managers with achieving their strategic goals, including expansion or exit plans.

His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, disposals, valuations, as well as debt and equity raising.

For over 15 years, Alistair worked in Big Four and Top Ten accountancy practices, where he provided corporate finance lead advisory services across the South East, typically handling transactions worth up to £25m in value.

More recently, he spent eight years as a member of the business development, then divisional leadership team, in the corporate arm of a prominent high street bank, where he specialised in businesses with turnovers up to £100m.

Partner and head of the Gatwick office at Carpenter Box, Rob Dowling, said, “We’re really pleased to have Alistair on board to help us boost our lead advisory services across the South East.

“It’s important that business owners have someone that they can trust to turn to, and Alistair’s first-class experience speaks for itself.”

Alistair says, “I’m delighted to be part of the team and it’s an exciting time to join. Carpenter Box has an impressive reputation across the region and a portfolio of clients which is growing rapidly.

“Our aim is to help them achieve their ambitions and I see it as my duty to make sure that this process runs as smoothly as possible.”