Vicky Fisher joins Azets debt advisory team

As the firm looks to expand its debt advisory offering, Azets has appointed Vicky Fisher as an assistant manager. Operating from the firm’s Cardiff office, she brings more than two decades of experience to the role.

Fisher said, “There are many businesses which would benefit from a review of existing finance facilities to help them reduce the cost of servicing debt or help with their capital expenditure plans at a time when inflation and higher employer taxes and costs have pressurised profit margins. I look forward to supporting them with advice on funding options from the market. Our debt advisory service can unlock new opportunities and build business value for clients.”

Azets is a business advisory and accounting firm headquartered in London. The company has since grown to more than 165 offices globally, with some 7,000 staff working with 120,000 clients. Only established in 2016, the company’s rapid growth in its first decade has been backed by UK private equity investor Hg – a specialist investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses.

As it looks for further expand its offering, Azets is growing its debt advisory team, which supports businesses in the UK has signalled further staff expansion this year with a new hire covering the western and central regions. Fisher will work from Azets’ Cardiff office, helping to boost that service line.

Supporting businesses, Fisher previously worked for Lloyds Bank for 22 years, and continues to sit on the board at Business in Focus, a social enterprise which helps Welsh start-ups, in a volunteer role as a non-executive director. She will be working with Martyn Freeman, a debt advisory director based in Gloucester.

Mark Barrie, London-based head of debt advisory at Azets, said, “Vicky joins Martyn in assisting SME owners and managers across the western and central regions in all aspects of finance, the lifeblood of all businesses large and small. Industry figures show that SME borrowing in the UK is circa £62 billion, with around two in five SMEs requiring external finance, whether that is to service growth, asset finance, cashflow issues, restructuring or to switch to cheaper debt. Our latest appointment is the first of three we have planned for the early part of this year, to meet commercial demand, with plans to grow Scotland and the South as well.”