Henley: HMT wins award as top South East independent firm

HMT has been recognised as the Independent Firm of the Year for the South East at the 2015 British Accountancy Awards organised by Accountancy Age.

The 5th British Accountancy Awards gala evening took place at The Brewery in London, and was attended by over 500 professionals from accountancy practices all over the country.

After HMT's success at the Thames Valley Deals Awards earlier this year, the firm was awarded Independent Firm of the Year – South East England at the British Accountancy Awards 2015. It is the second successive year that HMT has been a finalist for these highly prestigious industry awards and this year’s 8 finalists included previous winners.

The judging panel recognised HMT's commitment to people and clients, together with delivering investment and growth into new service lines in awarding the prestigious honour among a strong group of finalists.

Over the past 18 months HMT has doubled its headcount as well as expanding its head office in Henley, and opening a new office in the City. It has also added two new partners to the business this year - in transaction support and debt advisory.

HMT's corporate finance team has advised on more than 20 of the year’s most significant transactions in the South of England both advising corporate clients, private equity investors, banks and owner manager entrepreneurs. This year, clients have included PostNL, BOFA, Radio Technology, LDC, Percipient, Maven, RBS, Santander, Leaders, Redeem, whistl, Procam and ILG.

HMT’s audit, tax and advisory practice has also grown in the past two years and now has over 70 clients.

Ian Barton commented: “For HMT to have won this award in such a strong field of finalists makes the whole team incredibly proud of what we have built up over the last few years, both establishing our position as one of the leading corporate finance advisers across the South whilst also building up substantial service lines in audit, tax and outsourcing.

"This year has seen us continue to invest in our office locations by opening up in London, recruiting and developing our talented people as well as adding to our client service offering through our new debt advisory business. Our ambitious entrepreneurial clients recognise us as their trusted adviser, and we thank them for their support in helping us achieve this accolade and look forward to forging new relationships following this endorsement as the best independent firm in our region.”