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Among the possible UK M&A trends as we look ahead to 2021, one causing particular discussion has barely featured in domestic deals in recent years. These are Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), also known as ‘blank cheque’ companies. SPACs are shell companies founded and listed on a stock exchange with the sole purpose of raising money to acquire a target company or companies, taking the company public through what is sometimes called a “reverse merger”. In...
Capital Gains Tax – The proposed changes and what they could mean for business sales
With vaccines hopefully bringing the COVID-19 crisis to a long-awaited conclusion in 2021, thoughts ...
The rising cost of professional indemnity insurance and its impact on business sales
The mounting cost of professional indemnity insurance (PI) has become an issue that neither business...
Alternative deals emerge as go-to option for dealmakers in 2020
The pandemic has hit the 2020 M&A market hard. There’s no denying that it’s had an impac...
Tighter pre-pack regulations - What could the proposed changes mean for dealmaking?
Pre-pack sales are a vital tool in business rescue. This much is not really up for debate. However, ...
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Startup vs long-established company
Learn about the difference between acquiring a startup and a long-established business....
Remote learning drives wave of ‘EdTech’ investments
Like so many other things we’ve previously taken for granted, COVID-19 has changed the way we ...
Remote dealmaking – M&A in the time of COVID-19
The most fundamental of the numerous changes COVID-19 has wrought to M&A is the way deals are conduc...
Cybersecurity M&A – A sector defining the new normal
The hammer blow that COVID-19 has dealt to global M&A activity is no secret, with deal-making all bu...
From a standing start to a £300 million exit
In 1980, Dinesh Dhamija and his wife started selling travel tickets from an 80-square-foot kiosk in ...
Packed auction houses as business distress set to surge
During the COVID-19 crisis the company has seen goods pour in from insolvency advisers appointed to ...
M&A in the Veterinary Sector – Mass Consolidation
Interestingly, both of these companies were started by the same founder, August Equity, which invest...
End of the road for casual dining? Or a new dawn?
Three Hills Capital Partners put its Byron Burger brand into administration after failing to find a ...
Is now the time to buy into the delivery sector?
Most aren’t new companies, of course. Operators such as online-only supermarket Ocado and take...
The strange case of Wigan Athletic - What really happened and what does it mean for football?
On July 1st, Wigan Athletic, a historic English football club who were in the Premier League as rece...