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Study: One in five SME owners planning full or partial sale within two years

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One in five owners at small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are planning to sell all or part of their business within the next two years, a study has found. Owners polled cited a range of challenges, including rising costs and ...continue reading


Forecast M&A wave tempered by interest rate surge

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Dealmaking in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in 14 years (in the year to date), with a predicted wave of takeovers of UK companies having failed to come to pass. Rising interest rates, market volatility and recessionary fea...continue reading


M&A still a priority for CEOs, despite headwinds

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New analysis has revealed that M&A remains a strategic priority for CEOs in the UK, despite prevailing economic headwinds that have led to a slowdown in UK dealmaking activity so far this year. Investments in technology and privat...continue reading


Should I invest in a VC fund or buy a business?

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Earlier this year, one of our M&A team had a conversation with a cashed-up serial entrepreneur who was contemplating a change of strategy that involved putting some of his money into Venture Capital funds. A couple of his buddies...continue reading


UK remains top destination in Europe for M&A investment

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According to the annual M&A Attractiveness Index Score, published by the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), the UK remains the top destination in Europe for inbound and domest...continue reading


Retail M&A: Strategic acquisitions taking centre stage as market shifts

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Despite an incredibly challenging trading environment and a difficult summer that has featured some high-profile casualties, there are green shoots of recovery in the retail sector. Amid all this, M&A activity in the industry appe...continue reading


“Expectation gaps” impacting M&A, but deal volume on the rise

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Persistent high interest rates and rising inflation have led to “expectation gaps” arising between buyers and sellers that are impacting M&A transactions, with significant gulfs between what buyers would like to pay an...continue reading


Private equity helps recruitment buck declining M&A trend

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Private equity activity is helping the UK’s recruitment sector buck the trend of declining M&A activity that has been seen across many other industries so far this year. During the first half of 2023, the recruitment sector ...continue reading


Online business M&A: The types of online business

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Online businesses are ubiquitous in the modern economy and, as such, are at the heart of a huge amount of M&A activity across virtually every sector. Even if companies aren’t 100 per cent based online, they will most likely ...continue reading


Asda owners finance EG takeover with proceeds from previous disposal

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It has been revealed that Asda owners the Issa brothers and TDR Capital used the proceeds from an earlier disposal to finance the supermarket chain’s recent acquisition of parts of the EG Group – another company that t...continue reading


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