Alice and Laurence discuss an investment supported by a former Premier League footballer, new backing for a Northern Irish risk management firm and the latest acquisition by RSK Group.
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00:00New backing for a Northern Irish tech firm, an investment in the South West
00:04which is supported by a former Premier League footballer, and the latest
00:08acquisition for RSK Group. That's all coming up in today's business briefing.
00:18My name is Lawrence Kilgannon. And I'm Alice Bird. Well morning Alice. I think the
00:24story that caught my eye this morning is the one with the Premier League
00:27footballer link, so perhaps you can explain a bit more. So a consortium led
00:32by PropTech company CurveBlock and backed by a former Premier League
00:36football player and a serial investor has acquired a site in Cornwall which
00:40is going to turn into a holiday home park. Well you're still being coy Alice.
00:44Who is the footballer? So it will be of interest to you because it's
00:48Dominic Mateo. Oh yes, the former Liverpool left-sided defender.
00:54Yeah, former Liverpool, former Leeds United. He's acquired this site at
00:59Peakswater with investor Paul Massey and now they've purchased it through the
01:03Mateo CurveBlock partnership and the site actually already has planning
01:07permission. So what they want to do is they want to create 24 energy
01:11efficient holiday lodges there and 10 of the properties that are already on the
01:15site will be refurbished as well. So once that's complete and open it'll be
01:19operated by Ohana Mua Holidays. Right, okay, fantastic. Always interesting to
01:24see where the footballers and former footballers invest so that one sounds
01:28very interesting. And well I was going to say staying with the Northwest but
01:32actually I think Dominic is more synonymous with Leeds actually. A
01:36Northwest firm which is expanding is RSK Group. You'll be aware of them. Yeah. It
01:42seemed at one time that they were doing a deal almost every day and they still
01:47are and they've they've acquired a business called Kendall Kingscott. They
01:52are interdisciplinary construction consultancy based in, well they're headquartered
01:56in Bristol but they operate around the southwest, the southeast and also Wales.
02:01And sort of RSK is bringing together a big group of sustainable focused
02:08businesses so that might be in the fields of environmental, engineering,
02:12technical services and so on. So this is their latest acquisition and
02:17some well-known advisors working on that as well. We've got Bishop Fleming and
02:22Roxborough Milkins who've both worked on the deal. So yeah it'll be interesting to
02:26see if that's the last one for RSK for 2024. Who knows? We shall see. And you've
02:33got news of an appointment for us? I do, yeah. This one is from Oak North. So they
02:37have actually expanded their Manchester team and appointed an associate of debt
02:42finance. So Daniel Taylor has joined the business. Now he's joined from Santander.
02:46While he was there he worked on in their structured finance team and in his
02:51new role he'll focus on trading facilities such as acquisition and buy
02:55out finance. And his appointment comes as the Manchester team is growing.
03:00Recently they celebrated their five-year anniversary in the northwest and
03:05actually we spoke to them. We did a nice interview with them about their plans
03:09and how it's been in that time. So there's a link to that story in this
03:13appointment story as well. Excellent. We'll know the Friends of Insider. They're
03:16based in King Street and got some great deals that they've been doing across a
03:21variety of sectors. So it'll be interesting to see how they get on and good to see them
03:26expanding. Well actually now over to Northern Ireland where Metacompliance
03:32has secured new backing from Keensight Capital. They sort of specialise in
03:38cybersecurity awareness and compliance. Every business must be the same.
03:43From time to time you get those sort of quizzes that you do, must be that sort of thing.
03:47Exactly. But it's so important as we see when we cover stories where people
03:53haven't or firms haven't done that and they've been hit by with a hacking
03:56crisis. But Metacompliance was founded in 2005 and in the last three
04:01years it's doubled in size. That was with the backing of Tenzing and now
04:07there's a deal in place for Keensight Capital to take a majority stake in the
04:11business. So be interesting to see where that takes them. Anyway to find out more
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