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John Corr
Founder & CEO
John is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, and a Corporate Finance adviser with 20 years of M&A experience, including significant Private Equity experience across several sectors.
Recent roles include:
- Interim Head of M&A/sell-side project management on UK Education business with £100m of revenues
- Buy-side M&A adviser on a transaction in the UK manufacturing sector
- Several due diligence assignments in the education and business services sectors in collaboration with several accounting firms in the UK, Ireland and the Middle East
- Interim Finance Director for a Healthcare Group with approximately £20m of revenues and 400 employees, for which I oversaw a successful sale of a minority stake in the business
- Advisor to major Global Private Equity firm on potential £2 billion acquisition of education business
Prior to founding Corr Consulting, John has a track record of delivering project work and meeting deadlines during a 20-year career with Big 4 accounting firms (KPMG, Deloitte and PwC), including:
- Buy-side and sell-side due diligence on over 150 companies in various sectors and countries over a 12-year period, including the last 7 years focused exclusively on Private Equity deals
- Worked on several IPOs including Oriflame (Sweden) and RHJ International (Euronext Brussels)
- Six years of auditing both small and large companies, including working on controls
- Six months as a financial controller in a retail business
- Several restructuring projects for Banks during the financial downturn in Ireland in 2009/2010
Sebastian Wiegmann
Senior Adviser – Germany
Sebastian is an Independent M&A Consultant with more than 20 years of international experience in financial management, accounting & reporting, financial due diligence (FDD), business valuations, structural advice, carve outs/separation and vendor assistance.
Gained diverse expertise having worked for multinational clients and private equity investment firms on mergers, acquisitions and divestments (M&A), post-merger integrations, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Management Buy Outs and Buy Ins (“MBOs/ MBIs”).
Hands on and attention to detail, particularly strong analytical skills, in particular analyses of historic financial information and business plans (p&l, balance sheet, cash flow) as well as operational KPIs on deal sizes between €5m and €2bn (EV).
Written and oral reporting on key findings and deal issues with preparation of data rooms, information memorandi, offer/admission documents,
accountant's reports, financial reporting procedures and due diligence reports.
Acted as project manager, both internally and as outside adviser, for multinational clients and private equity firms on cross-border M&A / mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
Undertook successful corporate restructuring assignments, purchase price adjustment work, equity and bank financing/presentations, including detailed Cash flow and Working Capital planning.
Big 4 trained Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) with comprehensive knowledge of IFRS, German GAAP (HGB), Irish GAAP, UK GAAP, US-GAAP and Swiss GAAP, including specialist accounting in relation to completion accounts issues, acquisition accounting and impairment tests.
Qualifications / memberships
- 1996-1999: Business degree/Diplom-Betriebswirt (Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft FHDW, Paderborn/Germany)
- since 2003: Chartered Certified Accountant – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK)
- since 2011: Corporate Finance Faculty of the
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
- since 2014: Institute of Public Accountants in Germany / Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW)
Professional background
Since the year 2000, Sebastian Wiegmann has worked on national and international advisory projects. After 7 years in transaction services with one of the Big Four accounting firms in Düsseldorf and Dublin/Ireland, he worked for 3 years as an investment manager for a private equity holding company located in Ireland. Furthermore, he was a director of a German portfolio company during 2009 and 2010 (restructuring/preparation for sale).
Since 2011, Sebastian Wiegmann has worked as an independent consultant and accountant. He advises a diverse range of client companies. In addition, he acts also as a freelancer for well-known advisory and accounting firms.
Areas of specialisation
- Financial due diligence: Buyer-initiated and seller-initiated projects in Germany and abroad.
- Vendor assistance: Advice in connection with spin-offs/carve-outs, preparation of information memoranda and management of (electronic) data rooms.
- Corporate finance: Consulting in connection with M&A transactions, equity and debt financings, as well as project management in connection with M&A projects.
- Post-merger integration: Support subsequent to an acquisition, for example, in connection with the quantification of synergies or rationalisation of financial/legal structures (mergers of subsidiaries etc.).
- Accounting advisory: Advice in connection with the preparation of special balance sheets, for example, completion accounts.
Industry sectors and geographical coverage
Sebastian Wiegmann possesses considerable professional experience in the services sector, retail, waste management/recycling, food/consumer goods, IT/software, chemicals and real estate. Furthermore, he has frequently worked with financial investors (private equity) and family offices. Sebastian Wiegmann services clients in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and the United Kingdom (additional countries can be involved in international projects).
Some of our clients include.
John Corr has covered the Education sector since 2011, working with all the major players in the sector including:
- Providence
- Galileo Global Education
- Inspired Education
- Globeducate
- International Schools Partnership
- Oakley
In Healthcare, John spent 18 months as interim CFO of a UK Healthcare Group, guiding it through a successful minority sale to a Private Equity fund.John has also worked on several high profile hospital transactions in Europe and the Middle East.
Landmark deals (prior to John founding Corr Consulting) have included:
- Galileo Global Education’s €225m acquisition of Laureate’s higher education businesses in Italy and Cyprus – January 2018 (Education).
- KKR’s £325m acquisition of A-Gas in 2017 (Industrial).
- Sale of Brakes Brothers for $3.1 billion to Sysco in 2016 (Consumer foods).
- Centerbridge’s acquisition of Senvion (€1 billion), a wind turbine manufacturer – Germany 2015 (Industrial).
- EQT’s acquisition of Bureau Van Dijk (over €1 billion), a financial information provider - Benelux 2014 (Business services).
- Clayton, Dubilier and Rice’s acquisition of Mauser (over €1 billion), a manufacturer of industrial packaging - Germany 2014 (Industrial).
- KKR’s acquisition of Serbia Broadband (approx. €1 billion), a provider of broadband and cable TV - Serbia 2013 (Telecoms).
- Hellman and Friedman’s majority acquisition of Wood Mackenzie (£1.1 billion), provider of information to the Oil & Gas and Metals industries - UK 2012 (Business services).
- Sale of Ahlsell, a building materials distributor, by Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners to CVC (€1.8 billion) - Sweden 2011 (Industrial).
- Oriflame’s €1 billion plus IPO on the Stockholm Exchange in 2004 (Consumer products).
- Euronext IPO of Ripplewood Holdings Japan International for €1 billion plus 2005 (Various sectors).
- CVC's investment in the Belgian Post Office (Logistics).
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