Andrew Gould joins Continuum as senior managing director
UK consulting firm Continuum has hired a senior dealmaker to its team. Andrew Gould brings more than two decades of experience to the firm, and will begin his role in early 2024.
Founded by Chair Cahal Dowds and Senior Managing Directors Garth Hackshall, Simon Barrass and Anurag Verma in 2022, Continuum Advisory Partners is an independent consultancy. It focuses on the financial services sector, and mergers and acquisitions work. In the year since its launch, Continuum has grown to a team of 35 staff in its London office.
This has already helped Continuum has advise on a number of significant insurance and wealth transactions. These include being exclusive financial advisor to Markerstudy Group Holdings on its merger with Atlanta Group, Ardonagh’s personal lines broking business, to create a major new player in the UK insurance market; and being exclusive financial advisor to Correlation on the sale of Animal Friends Insurance to Pinnacle Pet Group, a leading pet insurance intermediary in the UK.
Looking to help keep Continuum on this growth track, the firm has appointed a new senior managing director. Andrew Gould joins from Deloitte, taking up the new role in the first half of 2024.
Garth Hackshall, one of Continuum’s founding partners and CEO, commented, “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. Andrew fits our ethos of winning the right way, and we’re excited to work with him.”
An experienced financial services banker with 20 years’ experience advising on M&A and fund-raising, his expertise includes advising insurers, MGAs, brokers, technology and service providers to the personal, commercial and specialty lines insurance markets. Most recently, he was a partner based in Deloitte’s London office.
The appointment comes as the UK M&A market looks poised to turn a corner. Following 18 months of lacklustre business, a mounting body of evidence suggests that 2024 will once again see a boom of deals across the national market – as firms look to boost their results through acquisition campaigns.
