PwC?s McKee wins award

Stuart McKee of PricewaterhouseCoopers has won HgCapital’s Rainmaker of the Year award. The Rainmaker competition honours the most successful deal originators in the UK private equity mid-market, and over the course of 2004 McKee successfully completed four deals.

Catalyst Corporate Finance won the award for independent house of the year, with three deals. The award for best performance over the past five years went to Charles Milner of KPMG, who had managed to stack up 10 deals over the last half decade.

Hawkpoint Partners picked up the award for the best five-year performance of an independent house for the second year running. Deloitte’s healthcare, media and financial teams won the rainmaker sector awards.