About the Author

Peter Howson is a director of AMR International, London's leading Commercial Due Diligence specialist. He has over 25 years of M&A and business development experience both in industry and as an adviser. He gained City Corporate Finance experience at Barings, where he focused on domestic and cross-border deals in manufacturing industries and M&A experience in industry at TI where he was part of the small team which, through 75 acquisitions and disposals, transformed it from a UK commodity supplier into a global specialist engineering company. He has also held senior finance and M&A roles with British Steel and T&N.