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Dealmakers expect M&A disputes to increase in 2024
- March 2024
A new poll has found that global dealmakers expect M&A disputes to increase during 2024 as a result of pressures including financing challenges, persistently high interest rates and emerging factors including ESG, digital assets and AI. Berkeley Research Group’s (BRG) M&A Disputes Report 2024 p...
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FOR BUYERS Intellectual Property in M&A – The key due diligence considerations
Intellectual property (IP) is playing an ever more important role in M&A transactions, as companies ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK deal value rises despite tough conditions
New data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed that UK M&A deal value increased durin...
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FOR SELLERS Selling a consultancy business
As we’ve covered in recent insights on professional services and the environmental and sustainabil...
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DEAL INSIGHT Startup vs long-established company
Learn about the difference between acquiring a startup and a long-established business....
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SECTOR GUIDES Digital, automation and green transition set to revive manufacturing M&A
A new report has forecast that digital transformation, automation and the green transition will be t...
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SECTOR GUIDES Quarter of UK hospitality firms have exhausted cash reserves
According to a new survey, a quarter of UK hospitality companies say they have exhausted their cash ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Alternative lenders claim significant M&A market share in 2023
New data has revealed that alternative lenders claimed a significant share of the UK M&A market in 2...
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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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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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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...