Howden Group Holdings has appointed Peter Blanc (pictured), who is currently executive chairman of Howden UK&I, to the newly created role of head of M&A. He will oversee a war chest of more than £1bn after Howden recently raised more than £875m through debt and equity and increased its existing credit facilities.

David Howden, CEO, Howden Group Holdings, said: “It is Peter who, in bringing Aston Lark to Howden, coined the phrase ‘forever home’. Having built Aston Lark from the ground up through his well-recognised ability to identify and execute high quality transactions with a deep-rooted cultural alignment he is obviously very well-placed to support me and our leadership teams in the further development of our very healthy M&A pipeline as we begin the next chapter of our development.

“With our leading position in the UK now established, we will continue to focus heavily on our European reach as well as developing our wider global footprint with acquisitions of high quality businesses where we can bring choice to clients.”

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