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Are you really ready to sell your business? - Key questions for owners considering a sale
- December 2022
As a business owner, there might come a day in the future when you wake up and think that it’s time to sell your company. Maybe you have another business venture that you want to undertake or perhaps you want to take some time off to travel, pursue charitable work or focus on your family life....
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FOR BUYERS Machine learning and AI in dealmaking – The future of M&A?In the M&A news cycle of major market trends, big acquisitions and shock administrations, the bigges...
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SECTOR GUIDES Consolidation resumes in the UK’s childcare sectorFor several years, childcare was among the UK’s most active dealmaking sectors. Like the veter...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Investing in escapism: How UK games developers are calling the shots in lucrative dealsThroughout the past 18 months, real-life experiences have been on hold for most of us. Adventures ha...
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DEAL INSIGHT Distressed businesses – what you need to know about themIn this video of our Deal Insight Series, Kevin Counihan from SIA Group talks to us about some of th...
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FOR BUYERS Rising debts and reduced cash flow create SME acquisition opportunitiesTo the casual observer, it may seem that the worst of the well-documented problems afflicting UK bus...
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FOR BUYERS Cannabis – The UK’s burning M&A issueIt’s a widely-known fact that cannabis is a controlled substance in the UK, a class B drug tha...
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FOR BUYERS 2021 Snapshot: E-commerce M&A in the UKIt’s now well-documented that stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated an ...
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DEAL INSIGHT What price should a business buyer open with?In this video of our Deal Insight Series, Rob Goddard from Evolution CBS How much you should offer w...
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FOR BUYERS MBOs come to the fore as owners seek a safe exitOver the past year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the exit plans of...
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FOR BUYERS ESG: Much more than a responsibility issue for dealmakersEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have been towards the top of the agenda for invest...
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FOR BUYERS The trouble with assessing post-deal successThere are a wide range of motivations for taking over another business. You may buy a business becau...
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FOR BUYERS Tech due diligence: The how and why of a crucial processIn a world that is rapidly becoming more digitised, it goes without saying that technology is an abs...
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FOR BUYERS COVID-19 and infrastructure projects push telecoms M&A centre stageWith people and businesses increasingly demanding faster, more reliable and more widely available co...
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FOR BUYERS Moving on: UK logistics sector looks to M&A in the wake of Brexit and COVID.The UK’s logistics sector is emerging from challenging times, looking to grow and diversify th...
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FOR BUYERS Diversity and dealmaking - Putting inclusion at the heart of M&ACorporations are putting diversity and inclusion at the centre of their acquisition strategies - sho...
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FOR BUYERS Dealmaking surges as health food brands targetedFollowing a period of consolidation during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which foo...