Hines Associates Limited
Hines Associates Limited advises across corporate finance matters, with publicly described expertise in financial services and examples of work involving shareholders, boards, sponsors, and corporates.
What stands out about Hines Associates Limited
Hines Associates Limited is a UK private limited corporate finance advisory firm that publicly states it advises on company sales and purchases, capital raising, financing, corporate strategy, valuations, and family-asset structuring. Its stated sector expertise includes banking, insurance, wealth management, asset management, distribution, and financial technology.[1][2][3]
What does Hines Associates Limited do?
Hines Associates Limited is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 19 November 2002. Companies House records the company under number 04593960 and lists its registered office at 42 Carlyle Square, London, SW3 6HA.
Hines publicly describes itself as a specialist corporate finance adviser. Its stated work includes advising on buying and selling companies, raising capital, financing, corporate strategy, valuations, and structuring family assets.[1][2]
Hines states that it advises on buying and selling companies, capital raising, financing, corporate strategy, valuations, and the structuring of family assets. These services describe an advisory offering rather than an identified investment-fund or portfolio-ownership model.[2]
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What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Hines Associates Limited?
For an owner evaluating Hines, the firm’s stated financial-services expertise and public examples involving shareholders, sponsors, boards, and corporate transactions provide a basis for discussing the intended assignment. The public record includes sales, strategic investments, minority equity investments, acquisitions, and takeover-related advice, so an owner should clarify which transaction path and adviser role would apply to the proposed mandate.
The cited official recent-deals page does not publish transaction values, fee structures, financing terms, or consideration mechanics. The cited corporate-finance extract does not state a universal engagement-size threshold. An owner should therefore seek specific terms on buyer coverage, valuation methodology, fees and expenses, timetable, conflicts management, and the contracting legal entity. The cited Companies House overview does not establish a specific FCA permission, investment-adviser registration, or broker-dealer authorization.[1][2][3][4][5]
What transaction-size and profitability ranges does Hines currently prioritize
What are the proposed retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions
What size transactions and clients does Hines Associates Limited focus on?
Hines publicly describes expertise across banking, insurance, wealth management, asset management, distribution, and financial technology. The firm’s recent public deal examples include insurance businesses and other financial-services companies.[2][3]
Examples listed on the official recent-deals archive include Hines advising on the July 2025 sale of AEC Agenzia di Assicurazione e Riassicurazione SpA to AnaCap-backed Edge Group; advising Abry Partners on its June 2025 strategic investment in Burgess Hodgson; and advising Berry Palmer & Lyle shareholders on a March 2025 minority equity investment from Preservation Capital Partners.
The archive also identifies Hines as adviser on the January 2025 sale of Maiden Holdings’ two Swedish insurance subsidiaries, to Equistone Partners Europe on its August 2024 investment in QuestGates Ltd., and on other recent insurance and financial-services transactions.[3]
The firm’s stated services and public deal archive cover company sales, acquisitions, strategic investments, minority equity investments, and other corporate finance assignments. Public examples identify Hines as adviser to shareholders, private-equity sponsors, and companies or boards in transactions involving financial-services businesses.[2][3][4][5]
What does Hines Associates Limited publicly disclose about fees, process and engagement terms?
The cited official recent-deals page does not publish transaction values, fee structures, financing terms, or consideration mechanics for the listed examples.
The cited official corporate-finance extract does not state a current employee count, revenue metric, assets-under-advisory metric, or universal minimum or maximum engagement-size threshold.[2][3]
Companies House classifies HINES ASSOCIATES LTD. under SIC 64999, “Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified.” The cited Companies House overview identifies the company’s legal form and SIC classification but does not establish a specific FCA permission, investment-adviser registration, or broker-dealer authorization.[1]
Public deal pages show Hines acting in different advisory capacities. One page states that Hines advised Livingbridge on the acquisition of Broadstone Corporate Benefits and Broadstone Risk & Healthcare from Oakley Capital. Another states that Hines advised the board of Oriel Securities in relation to its takeover offer by Stifel Financial.[4][5]
Questions to ask before hiring Hines Associates Limited
What transaction-size and profitability ranges does Hines currently prioritize?
Which sectors and geographies are active focus areas for Hines currently?
What are the proposed retainer, success fee, minimum fee, expense, exclusivity, termination, and tail provisions?
Which Hines legal entity would contract and provide the advice, and what regulatory permissions or appointed-representative arrangements apply?
Can Hines provide recent comparable transactions with disclosed valuation or consideration metrics?
How would Hines manage conflicts when advising sponsors, buyers, and sellers in the same sector?
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