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Demystifying M&A for mid-sized firms

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In an environment in which organic growth can prove extremely challenging, M&A activity can be the fastest, most effective and most sustainable way for small and medium-sized firms to build scale and grow their revenues and profit...continue reading


Demystifying M&A for mid-sized firms

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On the surface, the UK legal sector shares many similarities with industries such as accounting and insurance. They are all professional service sectors, largely populated by small to medium-sized, owner-managed companies, with a ...continue reading


Study: Early adopters seeing benefit of Gen AI in M&A

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The use of generative AI (Gen AI) among M&A practitioners continues to grow at a relatively slow rate, but dealmakers are showing increasing appetite to incorporate the technology into their processes. In a new Bain & Company s...continue reading


Key cybersecurity considerations throughout the M&A process

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Cybersecurity is a growing concern in M&A and is something that both vendors and buyers need to pay close attention to throughout the entire course of a transaction. Cyber-attacks can happen at any stage of a deal and the conseque...continue reading


Capital Gains Tax changes – Mitigating and minimising the burden

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Following the October 2024 increase in Capital Gains Tax and the announcement that the CGT charged on Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) would increase in both 2025 and 2026, many business owners are likely wondering how they c...continue reading


Key cybersecurity considerations throughout the M&A process

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Cybersecurity has been a pressing consideration in M&A for years. Amid increasing digitisation in the dealmaking process, the growing sophistication of cyberattackers and mounting concerns that M&A often creates more gaps for them...continue reading


UK M&A outlook 2025

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Heading into the new year, uncertainty continues to define the UK M&A market. While there is significant optimism that dealmaking activity will continue to recover from the lows seen in 2022 and 2023 during the next 12 months, buy...continue reading


How to find and buy distressed assets

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Over recent years, insolvency levels and financial distress among UK businesses have soared. In the year to the end of July 2024, UK insolvencies were higher than during the 2008-09 financial crisis, while recent figures showed th...continue reading


Waste and recycling M&A: Resilience, disruption and sustainability

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As far as recession-proof industries go, they don’t come much more immune from economic shocks than waste management. After all, no matter the state of the economy, people and businesses continue to produce waste and there i...continue reading


An in-depth look at the Corporate Compounder M&A model

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Corporate compounding is an M&A strategy in which buyers acquire and integrate businesses in order to consistently compound earnings, revenues and value over time, with M&A forming the core of the business’ growth strategy. ...continue reading


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