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David Petrie
www.linkedin.com/in/dwpetrie Head of Corporate Finance at ICAEW
(LinkedIn) London, England, United Kingdom
www.icaew.com/cff (Company)

Summary
Top Skills
Corporate Finance David is an experienced corporate financier, as well as having
Private Equity worked in industry, he has advised and invested in a number
Mergers of smaller companies. Formerly with PwC, he has advised on
numerous corporate finance deals, from management buyouts, to
Publications larger capital markets transactions, as well as infrastructure projects
Cyber Security in Corporate Finance and complex outsourcing and procurement contracts.
The Business Finance Guide Under David’s leadership the Corporate Finance Faculty has
become established as “the voice of corporate finance”. Membership
of the faculty has expanded significantly and is now drawn from the
major professional services groups, private equity, venture capital,
specialist advisory firms, banks, financial institutions, companies,
law firms, brokers, consultants, policymakers and academic experts.
More than 50% of the faculty’s membership now comes from beyond
ICAEW.
David has also played a leading role in many public-policy initiatives
focused on the economy and economic growth and in particular
increasing the variety and supply of funding available for growing
businesses. These have included the Breedon Report, which led
to the creation of the British Business Bank. He also convened a
taskforce of the UK’s leading business organisations to produce,
together with the British Business Bank, the highly acclaimed
Business Finance Guide, which has been distributed in hard copy or
via digital, interactive format to more than one million businesses and
advisers. He also led a high-profile initiative with HM Cabinet Office
on Cyber Security in Corporate Finance and in 2017 led ICAEW’s
contribution to the Patient Capital Review and to HM Government’s
development of the UK’s Industrial Strategy.
More recently, David has been actively involved in government policy
seeking to improve the competitiveness of the UK's capital markets
and played a key role in the development of the National Security
and Investment Act 2021. He currently serves on the Business
Finance Council, an expert body co-chaired by the Secretary of State
at the Dept. of Business and Trade and the Economic Secretary to
the Treasury.
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Experience
ICAEW
Head of Corporate Finance
January 2011 - Present (13 years 3 months)
The Corporate Finance Faculty is the ICAEW's centre of professional
expertise, representation, public policy, regulatory development and technical
guidance in corporate finance.

Bayes Business School

Board Member, M&A Research Centre
September 2018 - Present (5 years 7 months)
The Bayes M&A Research Centre (MARC), founded in 2008, is the only such
research centre at any major business school focused on both the research
and practice of M&A.

GSSL
Director
September 2008 - January 2011 (2 years 5 months)
GSSL - a designer and manufacturer of sustainable energy systems. At GSSL,
we obtained EU and business angel funding to set the company on the path to
growth in the green energy sector.

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Director
October 1996 - September 2008 (12 years)
M&A Director in the Corporate Finance business based in London. Particular
expertise in finance raising, trade auctions, private equity and complex
outsourcing deals. Advised on over £4.5bn of transactions primarily in the
Business Services, Support Services and Technology Sectors.

RSA Group
Senior Manager
September 1984 - July 1995 (10 years 11 months)

Education
University of Durham
B.Sc. (Jt Hons.) · (1981 - 1984)
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University of Bath
MBA · (1995 - 1996)

ICAEW
Corporate Finance Qualification (CF) · (September 2006)

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