Thalia joined Opus at the beginning of 2019. Since joining the firm, Thalia has advised clients and gained transactional experience in the Energy Transition and Climate Change, Financial Services, Consumer and Retail and Healthcare sectors.

She previously spent over 3 years at PwC in the London Region Assurance practice, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant, focusing on mid-market private and public listed companies across a wide range of sectors.

Thalia holds a BA in French from the University of Oxford and is a member of the ICAEW.

Frances has more than 30 years’ experience in corporate finance and asset management and has been a partner/specialist adviser at Opus since its inception. She is primarily focused on the asset and wealth management, infrastructure and healthcare sectors. Frances held directorships at SG Warburg, Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, Gartmore and Dalton Strategic Partnership. Her roles included advising boards on currency and interest-rate risk; heading Morgan Grenfell’s pooled funds business (institutional and retail); and running Gartmore’s global institutional and investment trust businesses.

Frances was Director and Audit Chair of the City & Hackney Primary Care Trust for many years. She also sat as the non-executive member of the Challenged Trust Board, a body which advised on reallocations of surplus funds to distressed healthcare trusts.

Frances is currently on the Boards of HICL plc, JP Morgan Smaller Companies plc, Aegon Investments Ltd and Federated Hermes’ Property Unit Trust. She also sits on Aviva’s With-Profits Committee.

She has an MA (PPE) and M.Phil. (Management Studies) from Oxford University.

Adrian is a highly experienced investment banker with a career spanning over 30 years including 27 years at UBS (formerly SG Warburg), Canaccord and Peel Hunt. At UBS he worked in London, Paris and Frankfurt in M&A, Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Broking. Latterly he ran the London-based UK mid-market team with responsibility for approximately 40 FTSE 250 listed clients. Adrian has worked across a broad range of sectors advising Boards on a wide variety of strategic (hostile and agreed), financing, regulatory and market matters.

He has a BA in Classics & Modern Languages from Oxford and is a Chartered Accountant.

An experienced consultant with over 24 years in the asset management industry, Iain’s focus is on retained mandates for strategic M&A within this sector. He is a specialist in team lift-outs and is also active in the capital introduction market, having secured investor money for businesses globally. Previously, Iain spent nine years at one of London’s leading buy-side search houses and prior to that, five years with a London-based recruitment firm, managing senior investment and distribution roles within asset and wealth management. Iain began his career in investment banking upon completion of a degree in Financial Services.