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Significant financial distress up more than 30 per cent
- April 2024
New data has revealed that the number of UK companies in “significant” financial distress was up more than 30 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, with the macroeconomic challenges that businesses faced in 2023 continuing during the first three months of the year. According to ...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Cazoo’s struggles: Self-inflicted? Or a warning to the used car sector?
As an online used car retailer launched within the last decade, Cazoo was in many ways a poster chil...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Insolvencies forecast to keep rising before situation improves
UK insolvency levels could rise even further this year, despite signs of economic improvement, accor...
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FOR BUYERS How Sir Jim Ratcliffe built INEOS into the UK’s biggest private company
Until his acquisition of a 25 per cent stake in Manchester United, one of the world's richest f...
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BSR DEAL INSIGHT SERIES Chelsea Corporate: Ran Carmon
Acquisitions, Business Valuations and Brexit....
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SECTOR GUIDES Environmental & sustainability M&A – Consulting and Engineering driving deals
Amid the ever-growing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG), businesses in the en...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS South East the most active area for high-growth M&A outside London
A new report has revealed that the South East of England was the most active region of the country o...
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SECTOR GUIDES Consulting M&A remained resilient in 2023
While many sectors saw a downturn in M&A activity last year, a new report has revealed that dealmaki...
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DEAL INSIGHT The right approach to valuing a business
One big mistake to avoid making when valuing a business....
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FOR BUYERS Financial services M&A sees 9 per cent fall in 2023
M&A activity in the UK’s financial services sector fell by nine per cent last year, as dealmaking ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Could interest rate cut drive SME dealmaking?
Following an unexpectedly sharp drop in the UK’s rate of inflation towards the end of last year, t...
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SECTOR GUIDES MedTech faces M&A challenges, but innovation and the economy offer hope
M&A activity in the UK MedTech sector experienced a tough year in 2023, with economic conditions res...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK M&A Outlook 2024
2023 was not exactly a bumper year for M&A, with the headwinds that defined much of 2022 continuing ...
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SECTOR GUIDES Hotels and niche sectors offer hope for travel M&A after slow 2023
Travel and tourism saw slow dealmaking during the first three quarters of last year as the sector co...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Hospitality could see 2024 M&A surge
Analysts are predicting that the UK hospitality sector could see a surge in dealmaking activity duri...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Companies increasingly looking to M&A to keep up with changing industries
A new survey has found that UK companies are increasingly looking to M&A activity to help them keep ...
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SECTOR GUIDES Logistics M&A growing, while haulage insolvencies hit new heights
M&A activity in the UK’s logistics and supply chain management industry has risen to a two-year hi...