Cardiff-headquartered Greenaway Scott Group has launched a new corporate finance boutique, Verde Corporate Finance, as part of a joint venture with Lime Finance (Insider Media, 2017).

The new venture will operate as an advisory boutique within the Greenaway Scott Group, with the company taking a 51% stake.

Verde Corporate Finance will be led by is experienced corporate finance director Tom O’Brien, who will act as lead adviser for the business. He was previously corporate finance manager at UHY Hacker Young and has also served as the acquisitions director for design practice HLN Group.

Nigel Greenaway, founder of Greenaway Scott, said “We know from our experiences over the last year that a lead advisory business working with a law firm works well as a concept, and the aim with Tom is to partner with someone who shares the ethos and ambitions of the team at Greenaway Scott.”

Tom O’ Brien said “Verde Corporate Finance will offer expert advice to a niche fast-growth business sector in Wales offering vital support to all levels of companies from start-ups right through to established brands. It will very much focus on the dynamic and growing businesses that Greenaway Scott already assist, and will focus on the development of new technologies and businesses from inception.”