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Alice and Laurence discuss an investment supported by a former Premier League footballer, new backing for a Northern Irish risk management firm and the latest acquisition by RSK Group.

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00:00New backing for a Northern Irish tech firm, an investment in the South West

00:04which is supported by a former Premier League footballer, and the latest

00:08acquisition for RSK Group. That's all coming up in today's business briefing.

00:18My name is Lawrence Kilgannon. And I'm Alice Bird. Well morning Alice. I think the

00:24story that caught my eye this morning is the one with the Premier League

00:27footballer link, so perhaps you can explain a bit more. So a consortium led

00:32by PropTech company CurveBlock and backed by a former Premier League

00:36football player and a serial investor has acquired a site in Cornwall which

00:40is going to turn into a holiday home park. Well you're still being coy Alice.

00:44Who is the footballer? So it will be of interest to you because it's

00:48Dominic Mateo. Oh yes, the former Liverpool left-sided defender.

00:54Yeah, former Liverpool, former Leeds United. He's acquired this site at

00:59Peakswater with investor Paul Massey and now they've purchased it through the

01:03Mateo CurveBlock partnership and the site actually already has planning

01:07permission. So what they want to do is they want to create 24 energy

01:11efficient holiday lodges there and 10 of the properties that are already on the

01:15site will be refurbished as well. So once that's complete and open it'll be

01:19operated by Ohana Mua Holidays. Right, okay, fantastic. Always interesting to

01:24see where the footballers and former footballers invest so that one sounds

01:28very interesting. And well I was going to say staying with the Northwest but

01:32actually I think Dominic is more synonymous with Leeds actually. A

01:36Northwest firm which is expanding is RSK Group. You'll be aware of them. Yeah. It

01:42seemed at one time that they were doing a deal almost every day and they still

01:47are and they've they've acquired a business called Kendall Kingscott. They

01:52are interdisciplinary construction consultancy based in, well they're headquartered

01:56in Bristol but they operate around the southwest, the southeast and also Wales.

02:01And sort of RSK is bringing together a big group of sustainable focused

02:08businesses so that might be in the fields of environmental, engineering,

02:12technical services and so on. So this is their latest acquisition and

02:17some well-known advisors working on that as well. We've got Bishop Fleming and

02:22Roxborough Milkins who've both worked on the deal. So yeah it'll be interesting to

02:26see if that's the last one for RSK for 2024. Who knows? We shall see. And you've

02:33got news of an appointment for us? I do, yeah. This one is from Oak North. So they

02:37have actually expanded their Manchester team and appointed an associate of debt

02:42finance. So Daniel Taylor has joined the business. Now he's joined from Santander.

02:46While he was there he worked on in their structured finance team and in his

02:51new role he'll focus on trading facilities such as acquisition and buy

02:55out finance. And his appointment comes as the Manchester team is growing.

03:00Recently they celebrated their five-year anniversary in the northwest and

03:05actually we spoke to them. We did a nice interview with them about their plans

03:09and how it's been in that time. So there's a link to that story in this

03:13appointment story as well. Excellent. We'll know the Friends of Insider. They're

03:16based in King Street and got some great deals that they've been doing across a

03:21variety of sectors. So it'll be interesting to see how they get on and good to see them

03:26expanding. Well actually now over to Northern Ireland where Metacompliance

03:32has secured new backing from Keensight Capital. They sort of specialise in

03:38cybersecurity awareness and compliance. Every business must be the same.

03:43From time to time you get those sort of quizzes that you do, must be that sort of thing.

03:47Exactly. But it's so important as we see when we cover stories where people

03:53haven't or firms haven't done that and they've been hit by with a hacking

03:56crisis. But Metacompliance was founded in 2005 and in the last three

04:01years it's doubled in size. That was with the backing of Tenzing and now

04:07there's a deal in place for Keensight Capital to take a majority stake in the

04:11business. So be interesting to see where that takes them. Anyway to find out more

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04:28are actually next year. Anyhow that's everything from us, see you next time.

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