Our team
We are a team of highly-qualified and experienced sale, merger and acquisition advisers and corporate consultants. We enjoy and are committed to working with clients to bring about change, either through our business consultancy or via our M&A lead advisory services. Our team is comprised of professionals who have experience of the service sectors we focus on and have a deep understanding of the local markets and regions our clients operate in. This experience and knowledge, coupled with a desire to fully understand our clients business models and aspirations, has seen us assist in over 1000 successful sales, mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Keith Underwood
Managing Director UK
Keith' s main experience and strengths lie in strategic planning and financial/business development, both in the UK and in Asia. He has instigated and managed many mergers and acquisitions. He has implemented changes in business models, in both the consumer and professional service sectors, to initiate improved market positioning and profitability.
With a wealth of experience, he has been a non-executive Director of a public company, run an international company with over 700 staff operating in ten countries, and sat on the Board of a number of international network groups in the service sector, to name but a few.
Tim Underwood
Managing Director Singapore
Tim joined the Foulger Underwood team in 2000, bringing with him a valuable background in UK Accountancy and Wealth Management. Tim’s initial role was to expand Foulger Underwood’s M&A capabilities by broadening our sectors of focus, taking us into the wealth management and trust & corporate service sectors in the UK and Europe. Having successfully supported numerous client transactions on both the buy-side and sell-side, Tim accepted an invitation in 2009 from the Singapore Accounting and Regulatory Authority to assist them in the development of the CPA and wider accounting sectors in Singapore. Foulger Underwood Singapore was established in 2010, which Tim continues to lead. The Asian business continues to grow and Tim spends the majority of his time assisting firms in the trust and corporate service sectors with their M&A strategies, either through sell-side support for vendors across the region, or assisting larger regional and global firms on the buy-side.
Brian McKinstry
Director Hong Kong
Brian spent the first ten years of his career with KPMG before moving into CFO positions for regional groups in the services sector. From 2002 to 2013 Brian was Group CFO of a major global trust and corporate services group headquartered in Hong Kong, under founder and private equity ownership, including seven years by the Carlyle Group. Brian's experience includes a strong background in the buy-and-sell arm of mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, valuation, integration planning, project management and corporate structuring. Brian joined Foulger Underwood in 2014 to establish the Hong Kong office and strengthen the group’s overall capabilities in Asia.
