Rob Goulding
Associate Director
A highly experienced and effective M&A professional, specialising in analytical research and international buyer interaction across a diverse range of industries, Rob has helped deliver over 80 transactions since 2003, with a combined deal value in excess of £1.4bn.
Rob specialises in delivering high-value and technically complex transactions including deals with both major trade and Private Equity buyers. Additionally, Rob heads up our research activities, managing, coaching, developing colleagues in identifying and effectively interacting with the best strategic buyers for our clients. One of our longest-serving staff members, Rob joined us from the University of Winchester in 1995.
Selected transactions
- Sale of CIA Insurance to Assured Partners
- Sale of Geotek to Judges Scientific
- Sale of Allworld Exhibitions to UBM
- Sale of DPS Software to Access Group
- Sale of Kee Resources to AutoTrader
- Sale of CALCO to Inflexion
- Sale of Cooke Optics to Growth Capital Partners
- Sale of GBUK to H2 Equity Partners
- Sale of Style Analytics to Horizon Capital
- Sale of RSL to IPCOM
- Sale of LMS to DOCGO
Rob plays a few instruments averagely, with piano being his current favourite. He also plays bass and enjoys jamming with family and friends. There is a great dynamic in a band, when an individual performer is elevated to greater heights as he learns to listen and play in harmony with others. Not dominating, but complementing each other, to produce the best sound possible. Similarly, here at Initium, several of the team have been in ‘this band’ for well over a decade, and we've learnt to play to each other’s strengths...