BDB Pitmans advises Harwood Capital and Specialist Components Limited on the takeover of APC Technology group plc

BDB Pitmans LLP has advised Specialist Components Limited, a company established and funded by Harwood Capital LLP, in connection with its takeover of AIM listed APC Technology Group PLC.

The recommended all cash offer of 10 pence per share valued APC Technology Group PLC at approximately £18.3 million and was effected by means of a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement.

Harwood Capital LLP’s principal activity is the provision of discretionary investment management and advisory services. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is part of the Harwood Capital Management Group that, at 30 September 2019, had over £1 billion of funds under management. APC Technology Group PLC is one of the UK’s leading providers of sustainability technologies, products and services and an established distributor of specialist electronic components.

The team acting on this transaction was led by corporate partners Nick McCarthy and Tessa Trevelyan Thomas, assisted by associate Rebecca Arnheim.

Jeremy Brade of Harwood Capital LLP commented:

‘We are delighted to have acquired APC and very pleased, once again, to have had the support of BDB Pitmans on a transaction. They have acted for us on the great majority of our public-to-private transactions.’