Hanson Capital Advisers
ABOUT US
Hanson Capital Advisers LLP (“HCA”) is a boutique specialist advisor. We provide our consulting and advisory services primarily to Hanson Group private companies and affiliated businesses. In addition, HCA also acts for other family-owned companies, private and sometimes public who receive the same level of attention and service commitment as the founding family.
HCA serves its clients with a broad range of strategic consulting, corporate finance advisory, fundraising, cross border acquisitions and disposals. Our multi-national, multi-lingual team is based in London, and together bring a wide range of expertise and a strong depth of experience.
HCA collaborates with a network of first class local and international partners to deliver an integrated global service.
Our background and origins
Hanson has been built over many generations. The Hanson family became prominent in the 1840s in the transport sector, and the Hanson brand was already well known when Lord Hanson formed Hanson PLC with Lord White in 1964.
Lords Hanson and White developed Hanson PLC into principally an Anglo-American consortium with interests across the world ranging from chemical factories in the US to electricity supply in the UK and coal mines in Australia. Hanson produced inter alia, cigarettes and batteries, timber and toys, golf club and cod oil capsules and cranes.
In 1996 Hanson evolved from a diversified industrial conglomerate into a focused heavy building materials business and decided to de-merge its business into four separate companies: Imperial Tobacco, The Energy Group, and Millennium Chemicals, which subsequently all became quoted companies. Hanson PLC went on to become one of the world's largest building material companies until it was sold to Heidelberg Cement in July 2007. Hanson Capital and its associate Hanson Capital Asia were created by the Hon. Robert Hanson and his father Lord Hanson in 1997 after the de-merger of Hanson PLC to formalise the management and oversight of the Hanson family strategic assets.
LORD HANSON ON EXCELLENCE
Advisory
We offer our clients a very high level of service that might be expected from a sophisticated Financial Advisor and Multi-Family Office. We provide impartial, expert advice to institutionalised family offices, corporations, entrepreneurs, private equity funds and professional private clients.
HCA provides its advisory clients with a quality of service we believe no other firm can match. Our client relationships are built on trust and discretion. We are deeply established in global business centres around the world, with meaningful local relationships and insights.
Our senior partners remain involved in every client assignment from start to finish. With 180 years of entrepreneurial history behind us, we have an exceptional depth of expertise across many industry sectors and geographies. This means we can advise our clients on the best possible strategy, and focus on quality to achieve a smooth execution.
We design and execute mandates for our clients and act as a trusted partners, taking a long-term and independent view on the challenges they face.
Our philosophy is to work closely with our clients to clearly understand each unique situation, and then leverage Hanson’ experience across a variety of industries and circumstances to drive differentiated outcomes.
From time to time at the request of our clients, HCA can work in cooperation with other Advisers or Investment banks of international standing selected to carry out those duties that are necessary for the completion of a transaction. Our clients expect the best from us, and we aim to surpass their expectations, starting with the quality of our people. Our team of professional includes many talented individuals with prior experience working for leading Corporate, Investment banks and Consulting firms. Our team delivers a superior level of discreetness and most of the work we do for our clients remains indefinitely confidential.
OUR principal investing activities
We offer our clients the opportunity to invest alongside HCA partners pari-passu. Our clients rely on us for sound judgment. As a firm built on entrepreneurship, we value the wisdom that comes from experience.
On behalf of our clients, HCA only pursues high quality investments opportunities in public and private markets. We have built our business with an emphasis on strategies that benefit from intensive research and active management. The result is a strong pattern of long-term performance, global perspective and deep insight into local markets.
We often work in partnership with other professional or institutional investors and are primarily focuses on deals with the opportunity to deploy £50 million and above. We have a strong capital preservation preference with a target returns in line with market best in class.
The chairman
Robert Hanson is the Chairman and founder of Hanson Capital Advisers LLP. Robert is also the Chairman of Hanson Capital Investments, Chairman of Hanson Family Holdings, Chairman for Sinojie Hanson and Co-Chairman & Managing Partner at Millennium Hanson Advisors. He is also a member of boards of directors of GoviEx Uranium, Inc., Greening Donald Co. Ltd., John K & Luise V, Hanson Foundation and Sport & Artist Management Ltd. and Member of Institute of Corporate Directors. Robert previously held the positions of Chairman for Strand Hanson and Chairman of Hanson Asset Management. Robert’s corporate background included roles as Chairman at Stockdale Securities Ltd. and Associate Director at N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. Robert achieved an MA in English Literature from St Peter’s College Oxford.
CONTACT
Registered Office:
71-75 Shelton Street
London
WC2H 9JQ
EMAIL: contact@hancap.co.uk