Ryan Smith

Ryan spends his time at EMC advising clients on both the buy and sell side, as well as leading debt and equity fundraising projects. He offers the full suite of corporate finance advisory services and has completed acquisitions, company sales, management buy-outs and fundraisings for EMC clients.

He is committed to building strong, long-term relationships with entrepreneurs, corporates and investors across London and the South East by delivering advice that maximises value throughout the transaction process.

Ryan is originally from Brighton, but began his career in Australia with a leading investment group, working on institutional funding and development projects before returning to Sussex and joining EMC.

Ryan’s recent transactions include the acquisition of Jigsaw by payments technology business Tillo and the sale of IEP Financial to private equity-backed IFA platform Verso Wealth Management.

Client Testimonials

I’d like to thank Ryan and the EMC team for their support throughout the process. Their commercial insight and transaction expertise were invaluable in helping us complete our first acquisition.”

Alex Preece, Co-Founder and CEO of Tillo

Ryan and the team at EMC played a key role in supporting us at every step to deliver this deal. They worked with all parties, using their commercial skills and deal-making capabilities to achieve the best possible outcome, instilling confidence to help us navigate a successful completion.

Ian Poysden, Chairman of IEP Financial

“We first engaged with EMC in 2018. They led a full process, supporting us with the presentation of our vision to accelerate our Fibre-to-the-Premises network in East Sussex. Throughout the process they demonstrated their knowledge and skill in articulating, negotiating and explaining complex matters. EMC has a background of being business people who are dealmakers and this showed throughout.”

Ben Ferriman, CEO of Lightning Fibre