Managing director at AlixPartners, Graeme Smith will explore how the current economic backdrop is impacting the financial landscape for M&A activity at this years Pub Conference. 

The conference takes place on 26 June at The Ham Yard Hotel, London and will feature a full day of presentations and panels, including Q&As with leaders in the pub and bar sector.

Smith will answer questions such as, it a buyer’s or seller’s market? Are pub assets as prized as they once were? He will also explore the outlook for consumer and economic trends influencing pub and bar deals in the short and medium term.

At the financial advisory firm, the managing director uses his experience and network to help companies and investors achieve their goals through M&A transactions, restructurings, and access to both equity and debt financing.

He has two decades of UK and cross-border experience in advising clients on buy- and sell-side M&A, raising or refinancing equity and debt, valuation matters, special-situations M&A, and financial restructurings.

His experience has been achieved across a broad range of industries but with a particular focus on consumer-based sectors, including hospitality, leisure and retail.  

Also on the agenda at MCA’s Pub Conference; sessions from Wetherspoons chairman Sir Tim Martin, Greene King CEO Nick Mackenzie and Stonegate CEO David McDowall. With £100m of new funding from Alchemy Partners, and fresh from being promoted to CEO, Heartwood Collection’s Richard Ferrier will also join The Pub Conference line-up.  

Further highlights include a women leaders panel hosted by Karen Bosher, hospitality consultant and ex Greene King MD, and an innovation showcase panel with The Devonshire, Buzzworks, TOCA Social and Little Door & Co. 

This year, MCA’s Pub Conference announces it has a new charity partner, Ask for Angela, an initiative adopted at venues around the UK and internationally to help promote safety and wellbeing for anyone who finds themselves vulnerable.

For more information on the event and the current agenda, and to book your tickets, please click here.