DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
Nine months of interrupted trading have taken an enormous toll on UK businesses across many sectors, with nearly a third of firms having less than three months of cash reserves remaining, according to figures from the Office for N...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
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 ‘blan...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
With vaccines hopefully bringing the COVID-19 crisis to a long-awaited conclusion in 2021, thoughts are now inevitably beginning to turn to how the government will seek to foot the huge bill that has been racked up by enormous lev...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The mounting cost of professional indemnity insurance (PI) has become an issue that neither business owners, nor potential acquirers, can avoid. High PI costs and strict terms are now being described as a make-or-break factor in b...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The pandemic has hit the 2020 M&A market hard. There’s no denying that it’s had an impact and will continue to do so as the world fights second and third ‘waves’ and lives with the economic fall-out. Howeve...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
There’s not much left to be said about 2020, a year of enormous upheaval and disruption across almost every sector. With Brexit looming, the year of course began with a degree of uncertainty, but this was perhaps tempered by...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The most fundamental of the numerous changes COVID-19 has wrought to M&A is the way deals are conducted on the purely functional level. We are talking here about social distancing, which has transformed deal methodology. With so...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
In a recent insight, we looked at how cybersecurity has been a sector that has bucked the M&A downturn caused by COVID-19. Following an initial dip in March, the sector’s increased relevance and its recent history of produci...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
According to new figures released by the Treasury, the total value paid out to businesses through the government’s COVID-19 business interruption loan schemes reached almost £62 billion last week. The latest data shows...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The hammer blow that COVID-19 has dealt to global M&A activity is no secret, with deal-making all but grinding to a halt during the spring of 2020. However, while some aspects of society and the economy have been put on pause by t...continue reading
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