Team
Paul Herman
Partner
Email: pherman@cavendish.com
Paul, a French speaker, graduated from Manchester University in 1993 with an honours degree in Computer Science and Accounting.
On leaving university, Paul joined Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in London, where he worked on a wide range of audit and business advisory projects. His work was largely focused on the financial services and retail industries. In 1995, he joined the lead advisory team within the corporate finance practice, where he focused on selling businesses and on the valuation of companies, brands and businesses for transactional or tax purposes.
In 1997 Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant and joined the private equity team of Nikko Europe shortly after it had been founded. He worked on several transactions in a variety of sectors in both the UK and France. Of particular interest, Paul's transactions included a substantial investment in a leading motorway service station operator and a smaller investment in a leading sub-prime consumer finance provider.
Paul joined Cavendish in 2000 and has gained considerable experience selling a wide range of businesses across several sectors. Having initially focused on technology businesses (at the time of the dot com boom), Paul has increasingly become involved in advising on the sale of consumer-focused businesses, business services companies and financial service companies. Having led the Retail Group within the international alliance, M&A International, Paul now heads the Retail team at Cavendish whilst at the same time is active across a number of other sectors.
Paul has led the transactions for some of Cavendish’s highest profile clients including Mappin & Webb, Smythson, Etam and Olan Mills.