Paul Winterflood

Paul Winterflood is a corporate finance partner at Moore Kingston Smith, a London-based advisory firm whose corporate finance team was recognised as Corporate Finance Advisory Firm of the Year in England at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The award reflects the firm's standing as an adviser to owner-managed and founder-led businesses on the transactions that shape their growth and future.

Moore Kingston Smith's corporate finance practice specialises in advising businesses typically valued between five million and one hundred and fifty million pounds, a segment of the market in which founders and owner-managers require experienced, hands-on guidance through complex and often once-in-a-generation transactions. The team is led by a head of corporate finance and comprises around thirty-five finance professionals, giving it the depth to run transactions while remaining close enough to clients to offer partner-led attention throughout.

The practice is organised around three principal services. Its deal advisory work helps clients secure and execute the right transaction, whether a sale, acquisition, merger or fundraising. Its transaction services team drives value through financial and tax expertise, providing the due diligence and analysis that underpin well-informed deals. Its debt advisory service helps clients optimise their balance sheets and financing arrangements. Together these strands allow the firm to support businesses across the full arc of a corporate finance transaction, from initial strategy to completion.

Paul Winterflood is a corporate finance partner within this team, with a particular focus on the media sector. Corporate finance advice in a specialist sector such as media calls for an understanding not only of deal mechanics but of the commercial dynamics and value drivers specific to the industry, from the nature of client relationships and revenue models to the strategic rationale behind consolidation. His sector focus enables him to advise media businesses and their owners with insight into the particular considerations that affect valuations and transactions in that field.

The firm's approach is described as multidisciplinary, integrating corporate finance with mergers and acquisitions tax expertise to deliver comprehensive transaction support. This joined-up model is well suited to the needs of owner-managed businesses, where the commercial, financial and tax dimensions of a deal are closely intertwined and where founders benefit from advisers who can see the whole picture. Operating from offices in London and across the surrounding region, the team combines national reach with the personal service that its client base values.

The Corporate INTL Global Awards recognise leading advisers and firms across jurisdictions and practice areas, drawing on research into the market to identify those demonstrating particular expertise in their field. The 2024 award to Moore Kingston Smith as Corporate Finance Advisory Firm of the Year in England highlights the strength of its corporate finance offering, to which Paul Winterflood contributes as a partner advising businesses and their owners on the transactions that define their future.