Independent corporate advisory firm Continuum Advisory Partners (Continuum) has appointed two new Senior Managing Directors – financial services bankers Duncan Buck from Fenchurch Advisory Partners, and Andrew Gould from Deloitte.
The new appointments mean the firm’s headcount has grown to 35 since it opening its doors earlier this year.
Buck, who is set to take up is new position in early 2024, is a leading financial services banker with over 25 years’ M&A experience, with a focus primarily on advising clients in the insurance sector.
Buck has been at Fenchurch since 2012, where he was a Senior Managing Director and Vice Chairman. Prior to Fenchurch, he was a founder of Lexicon Partners, which he helped build from 2000 to 2011 when the business was sold to Evercore.
Gould, an experienced financial services banker with 20 years’ experience advising on M&A and fund-raising, will join Continuum in H1 2024. His expertise includes advising (re)insurers, MGAs, brokers, technology and service providers to the personal, commercial and specialty lines insurance markets.
Gould joins from Deloitte, where he was a Partner based in the firm’s London office,
Between them, the pair have advised on over 150 M&A transactions for a broad range of clients including large corporates, entrepreneurs, private equity and other institutional investors based in the UK and internationally.
