About Us
SG Financial are innovation & growth funding experts for entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses.
We specialise in securing funding for businesses facing a funding gap.
We are based in Poole, Dorset, and work with innovative and growing SME businesses throughout the UK.
We provide strategic and commercially focused consultancy, with 3 core service offerings:
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Securing Funding
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Consultant Corporate Finance
- Consultant Finance Director
Why Us?
At SG Financial we provide value added strategic advice and expertise in securing innovation and growth funding for companies seeking to develop and commercialise new and innovative products, services and technologies.
Shaun Gomm, a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Founder of SG Financial, has over 20 years’ fundraising experience across a wide range of sectors, investors & funders. He has spent 8 years advising on mergers and acquisitions within Deloitte’s Corporate Finance Advisory practice and since 2009 has worked in SMEs in various senior and Board Director roles for fast-growth and innovative businesses.
“At SG Financial, we have an exceptional network of contacts and work with entrepreneurial SME businesses and high net worth individuals. We specialise in assisting innovative and growing businesses to: Secure funding in the form of grants, loans, equity investment and R&D Tax Credits and offer consultant Corporate Finance and Finance Director services.”
Shaun Gomm, Managing Director / Founder, SG Financial
Our Services
We are a strategic and commercially focused consultancy, with 3 core service offerings:
- Securing Funding
- Consultant Corporate Finance
- Consultant Finance Director
Securing Funding
We identify, project manage and secure:
- Grants
- Loans
- Equity
- R&D Tax Credits
- R&D Tax bridging loans
Consultant Corporate Finance
We assist in businesses going through mergers, acquisitions and disposals:
- Preparation for sale and value optimisation
- Integrated financial model development
- Dataroom management
- Due diligence management
Consultant Finance Director
We are retained by businesses to provide:
- Strategic financial and commercial advice to Boards and stakeholders
- Business planning
- Integrated financial model development
- Contract negotiation, management and compliance
- Variance analysis and resolution
Our Sectors
We are experienced, well-connected and proven across a wide range of sectors
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Clean growth, sustainability and renewables
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Future mobility
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Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Big Data
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Ageing Society
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Aquaculture & marine
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Agri/Horti-Tech
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Advanced manufacturing
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Healthtech & healthcare
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Transformative construction
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Environmental goods & services
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Waste management
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Stormwater management
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Leisure
- Food & drink
Our Testimonials
We have many success stories from our work with innovative and growing UK companies where we add value through our strategic and commercial approach.
SG Financial provided in-house Corporate Finance to BOFA on its £90m disposal
"I have known Shaun for many years and worked on a number of transactions with him in a previous role. With the BOFA sale, Shaun was able to hit the ground running, quickly understood the issues, was self-managing and provided an extra pair of hands to the Management Team. Shaun provided invaluable support to BOFA and LDC on the disposal of the business to Donaldson."
James Oliver, Finance Director, BOFA
SG Financial secures Stewarts Garden Centres £573k in grant funding from two grants
"We would like to thank Shaun for identifying and securing almost £600k of grant funding for Stewarts and would highly recommend SG Financial to companies looking to secure innovation and growth funding."
Martin Stewart, Managing Director, Stewarts Garden Centres
SG Financial provided transaction Financial Modelling services to IMD Group in support of the Chiltern Capital backed management buy-out of the business.
"It was a pleasure to work with Shaun on our recent private equity-backed management buy-out, where he was responsible for the development of the integrated Financial Model which was critical to the successful conclusion of IMD Group’s transaction with Chiltern Capital."
Graham Joyce, Chief Operations Officer, IMD Group