AHV Associates LLP has been recognised consistently in International peer-reviewed awards

AHV are a highly professional firm who understand how privately owned businesses operate. They always impress our clients and are always willing to meet them, whether or not a possible transaction is on the horizon.

Peter Rodney, Partner, Bright Grahame Murray Chartered Accountants

AHV were invaluable during the sale of Gamesman. The outcome was highly satisfactory to the shareholders and I have no doubt that we would not have achieved this excellent result were it not for Andrew's incisive input and guidance.

Mark Smith, CEO and founder, Gamesman Ltd

Hanif is always willing to provide ad hoc views in relation to my clients’ situation. AHV are professional and in touch with the latest developments in M&A.

Manuel Grove, Partner, Grove and King Chartered Accountants

We have worked closely with AHV and have found them to be innovative, flexible and totally focused on fulfilling the client's objectives.

Malcolm Kauder, Director, Croucher Needham

Andrew and his team are knowledgeable, focused and highly professional in their approach. They provide sensible and pragmatic advice and are a pleasure to work with.

Simon Ainley, Partner, Walker Ainley Associates

Andrew and his team really understand privately owned businesses. They are entrepreneurial and flexible in their approach whilst always being totally focused on achieving the clients goals.

Russel Lux, Managing Director, Luxtech Ltd.

AHV were invaluable in arranging the sale of my company. It was a complicated cross border transaction but Andrew & his team were impressive in their understanding of the issues & thorough in their management of the transaction.

Michael Hagens, Founder and Managing Director, Mycall Holdings Ltd.

Thanks Annette. You did a sterling job at helping us over the line with the MBO- I honestly don't think we would have made it without you. I very much enjoyed working with you and learned a fair bit along the way.

Gavin Russell, CEO, Wavex

Annette and her colleagues could not have worked harder in supporting our M&A efforts in North America.

Audrey Mandela, Board Director, Multimap Ltd.

AHV are very professional in their approach and have given Voicenet Solutions strong and valuable support throughout the process of capital raising.

Mark Rodel-Duffy, CFO, Voicenet Solutions Ltd

AHV Associates understood our business quickly and, importantly, were able to ‘think out of the box’ in providing us with general financial and corporate advice.

James Daley, Executive Chairman, Masefield International Holdings AG

Hanif is always willing to provide ad hoc views in relation to my clients’ situation. AHV are professional and in touch with the latest developments in M&A.

Manuel Grove, Partner
Grove and King Chartered Accountants

Our team

All our partners have extensive experience in corporate finance and have been entrepreneurs in their own right. This unique combination of experience gives us the ability to advise businesses on all aspects of their strategic objectives.

Andrew Bell

Andrew spent the last 12 years as an investment director at 3i and has many years of international banking, leasing and investment experience.

Akhilesh Goenka

Akhilesh joined AHV Associates after having worked in Bank of America and Capital IQ (a Standard & Poor's Business) where he was involved in evaluating M&A and Capital Raising transactions taking place globally.

Andrew Harrington

Andrew is a joint founder of AHV Associates. During his career at Salomon Brothers Andrew was rated as the number one telecommunications analyst globally in all the major corporate and institutional investor surveys.

Annette Nabavi

Annette previously held the position of Head of Telecoms Global Business Development for Corporate Finance at ING Barings where she gained significant experience in M&A, private equity, structured debt and public equity transactions.

Omiros D. Sarikas

Omiros joined AHV from Candesic where he mainly acted as advisor to private equity funds. He worked in London, Zürich and New York on buyout transactions, such as Cinven's acquisition of Sebia for €800m.

Hanif Virji

Hanif is a joint founder of AHV Associates. He gained experience in structuring and selling derivatives at some of the world's largest investment banks including Lazard Brothers, Credit Agricole Indosuez and JP Morgan.