Chesham Amalgamations is the trading name of Chesham Amalgamations & Investments Limited, a pioneering mergers and acquisitions broking company based in the UK. It was formed in 1962 by Dr Francis Singer and Nicholas Stacey, both

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, at 36 Chesham Place,

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, with the intention of assisting Stacey introduced Sir Miles Thomas, later Lord Thomas of Remenham, who had previously been Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, now

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, and President and Chairman of the

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Committee. Thomas later became Chairman of Chesham. The company benefitted from the formation of the

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by the 1966 British Labour government, which had the intention of promoting and helping finance regroupings in industry, and which thus encouraged a trend toward bigger business. In 1966–1967 it successfully concluded US$50 million worth of corporate mergers. By 1969, the company had recruited Sir Neil Shields as its third director.

External links

Chesham Amalgamations website

The history of Chesham Amalgamations

References

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