Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen founded Sapient Corporate Finance in 1997 to provide independent corporate finance and strategic advice to companies in the pubs, bars and leisure sectors.

 
Peter Hansen

Peter has advised eight of the 10 largest managed and tenanted pub companies in the UK during his 19 year association with the pub industry since the formation of the industry following the Beer Orders in 1991.

Peter’s first deal in the sector was the 1991 acquisition of 372 pubs from Bass to create Enterprise Inns. Since then Peter has been involved in over 50 transactions in the pub sector and has the greatest experience of any adviser to the sector.

Present and past clients include Mitchells & Butlers, Punch Taverns, Geronimo, Realpubs, Scottish & Newcastle and Greene King.

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Career

• NatWest Markets, Corporate Finance
• The LEK Partnership
• Bain & Co

Experience

Extensive mergers and acquisitions experience in the pubs and leisure sectors.

Qualifications

• BA/MA Economics/Maths,
Brown University
• MBA (Distinction),
Harvard Business School