Nick Hawkins

Founded in 2004, Cenkos Securities is an independent London-based securities firm that focuses on UK small and mid-cap companies. They offer advisory, sales and research service to growth companies, across an array of jurisdictions and sectors including leisure, technology, support services, engineering, healthcare, financials, environmental and business services. The firm's natural resources team provides analysis and commentary on the UK mining, oil and alternative fuel sectors. They offer access to the full list of the LSE, but a large part of their concentration is on the AIM market in London. Cenkos' dedicated research team covers a range of sectors, including but not limited to technology, biotechnology and real estate. Their Equity Capital Markets team acts as the interface between corporate clients and institutional investors, specializing in raising capital for special opportunities. Cenkos' Investment Funds team focuses solely on listed investment companies. The firm has an excellent record of raising capital for new and existing listed funds in asset classes ranging from equities to property and hedge funds to private equity. Their Institutional Equities team provides research-driven investment ideas and a full execution service to institutional clients. Cenkos has particular expertise in the areas of retail, food retail, technology, building/construction and banks. They offer a full execution service in UK and European large and mid-cap shares. Cenkos makes markets in over 200 stocks including over 100 stocks where they are broker or Nomad. Cenkos is a member of the LSE. They provide liquidity to the market via their Retail Service Providers and facilitate institutional business in both small and large cap-equities. The sales trading desk covers the whole UK market and has access to other global markets. The desk services UK and global institutional clients. They work closely with equity sales and provide a complete execution service for their clients.

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