M&A advisory firm, Continuum Advisory Partners, has announced the appointment of two new Senior Managing Directors, Duncan Buck and Andrew Gould.
A financial services banker with over 25 years’ M&A experience, Buck is joining Continuum from Fenchurch Advisory Partners.
In his new role, to begin in early 2024, he will primarily focus on advising clients in the insurance sector.
Buck joined Fenchurch in 2012, through his time in the company he served as Senior Managing Director and Vice Chairman. Prior to this, he was a founder of Lexicon Partners, which he helped build from 2000 to 2011 when the business was sold to Evercore.
Gould is joining Continuum in the first half of 2024. He is an experienced financial services banker with 20 years’ experience advising on M&A and fund-raising.
His expertise includes advising re/insurers, MGAs, brokers, technology and service providers to the personal, commercial and specialty lines insurance markets.
He is to join the firm from Deloitte, where he was a Partner based in their London office.
Both Buck and Gould have advised on over 150 M&A transactions for a broad range of clients including large corporates, entrepreneurs, private equity and other institutional investors based in the UK and internationally.
Continuum’s two new hires take the firm’s headcount to 35 staff since opening its doors earlier this year.
Garth Hackshall, one of Continuum’s founding partners and CEO, said: “We see tremendous opportunity to grow and continue hiring top talent. Our successes, including our ability to attract the sector’s best advisors, show that the market is ready for something different: an independent advisory firm focused solely on the best client outcomes delivered with trust, independent thought and integrity. Duncan and Andrew fit our ethos of winning the right way, and we’re excited to work with them.”
