The Team
Alan Bristow
Founder and CEO
Winner of Corporate Finance Adviser of the Year and 8th Corporate Power Player in the UK.
Alan Bristow ACA, Founder and Managing Director of ICON. He is recognised as one of the country's leading corporate finance advisers to private companies.
Alan has over 18 years of combined fund raising and M&A experience. Throughout this period Alan has dealt with some of the world's leading investors and technology companies and clients have included: Aethos Communications Systems, Equinox Converged Solutions, Datanomic, Trilogy Broadcast, ATS, Deepstream, Clearspeed Technologies, In2Focus, First on Demand, Ocean Blue Software and EB2 International.
He specializes in all aspects of raising venture capital, joint ventures, management buy-outs, acquisitions and corporate sales. He has advised on over 200 transactions with an enterprise value of well over £1 billion.
In 1999 he founded ICON as one of the UK's very few specialist corporate finance advisory firms that act exclusively for technology companies. He has been recognized as the UK's No 1 specialist corporate finance adviser and ranked within the UK's top 50 power brokers for the last three years.
Prior to establishing ICON, he spent four years in Australia as the Finance Director of an Australian Investment Group responsible for their mergers and acquisition programme and prior to this; he worked for two years at Price Waterhouse in Melbourne. He holds a degree in Economics and Politics and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985.
Alan currently acts for technology clients within the UK, Europe, Australia and the US. He is a frequent speaker and author on venture capital fundraising.
Contact
t. +44 (0)20 7152 6375
m. +44 (0)7899 921600
e. alan@iconcorpfin.co.uk
