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Accounting firms broaden their focus to stay relevant
- March 2023
The trend for accounting firms to venture beyond their traditional areas of service has been highlighted by Ballards LLP's recent acquisition of one of their clients, Northampton-based creative design agency, CreativeFolks. The aim of the agency acquisition was to provide a more comprehensive s...
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SECTOR GUIDES UK recruitment sector M&A remains buoyant in an uncertain economy
The past two years have turned the recruitment sector on its head, with the chaos of the COVID-19 pa...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK the most attractive destination in Europe for M&A investment
New research has revealed that the UK has overtaken the Netherlands and Germany to become Europe’s...
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SECTOR GUIDES UK Snapshot: Dental Industry M&A
Despite global uncertainty and the rising costs of running a business amid the UK’s soaring inflat...
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BSR DEAL INSIGHT SERIES Chelsea Corporate: Ran Carmon
Acquisitions, Business Valuations and Brexit....
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FOR BUYERS Peter Lidgitt: Building a £22m business through acquisitions
Peter Lidgitt is the Chairman of Mastiff Group, a group comprised of close to thirty independent bus...
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FOR BUYERS The key steps to making successful distressed acquisitions
Business distress is soaring in the UK, as companies contend with the withdrawal of government suppo...
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FOR BUYERS M&A as a strategy to mitigate global disruption
M&A is often used by companies to respond to shifts within their sector, whether these shifts are dr...
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DEAL INSIGHT The right approach to valuing a business
One big mistake to avoid making when valuing a business....
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FOR BUYERS How private business mergers and acquisitions differ between the US and UK
When examining the respective M&A markets of the USA and the UK, perhaps the most striking thing to ...
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FOR BUYERS Don't have enough money to buy the business?
Buying a business is not like buying a house Here’s what the majority of people do when they ar...
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FOR SELLERS How do you know when the right time is to sell your business?
When you’ve dedicated yourself to a business - whether started from scratch or taken on at a later...
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FOR BUYERS Wealth management M&A boom continues amid changing dealmaking environment
M&A activity in the wealth management sector entered 2022 on a high with experts forecasting this wa...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS M&A volumes in UK back to pre-pandemic levels
Last month, BDO released the latest edition of its Private Company Price Index Report (PCPI), giving...
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SECTOR GUIDES Cosmetics set for continuing recovery and M&A growth
Like many industries, from hospitality and events to formalwear, the cosmetics industry suffered as ...
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FOR BUYERS How companies can use M&A to tackle supply chain problems
While the worst of the uncertainty caused by Brexit and COVID-19 may have passed, UK businesses stil...
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FOR BUYERS Is the UK hotel M&A market moving into growth mode?
Despite the ending of the UK’s lockdown restrictions and the easing of COVID-19 rules in other cou...