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High value deals the priority as UK activity slows in H1 2025
- September 2025
M&A activity in the UK slowed down by nearly a fifth during the first half of 2025, with dealmakers seemingly focusing on fewer, but more high-value transactions. According to PwC’s latest Global M&A Industry Trends report, there were 1,478 UK M&A deals during H1 2025, a drop of 19.1 per cent co...
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FOR BUYERS Number of British businesses in distress reaches record lowSuch has been the length and depth of the current recession that almost every politician or economis...
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FOR BUYERS One fifth of shops affected by retail administrations still vacantThere are opportunities aplenty for any UK company looking for a retail space as, according to new r...
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FOR BUYERS Boutique advice firms thriving in M&A marketAs we welcome in the end of the fiscal year so too do we ready ourselves for the onslaught of facts ...
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SECTOR GUIDES Understand technology business valuations: buy for less, sell for moreThough it’s often said that business valuation is more of an art than a science, we’d go one ste...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Threats and opportunities in the UK care home industryThe care home sector has seen more than its fair share of difficulty in recent years. Between 2011 a...
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FOR BUYERS Labour is the small business party, says Miliband‘Labour is the party for small businesses’, at least that has been Ed Miliband’s message at a ...
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FOR BUYERS Small businesses to benefit from falling inflation and petrol pricesSmall businesses received a welcome boost this week as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reve...
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Post Kraft/Cadbury M&A activity in the UK7 September 2009 is a date enshrined in the UK mergers and acquisitions calendar. On that Monday mor...
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FOR BUYERS Government snooping 'incredible damaging' to small businesses, PCG saysHMRC has been accused of using “incredible damaging” tactics in its campaign to gain access to s...
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FOR BUYERS What the 2014 Budget means for businessThe UK’s businesses received a boost today as the Chancellor George Osborne announced his 2014 Bud...
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FOR BUYERS Banks' lending habits to SMEs scrutinised againThe UK’s major high street banks are facing another inquiry into their lending habits towards SMEs...
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Buyers finding fresh opportunity in others’ lossesOperations that prove to be a drag on one business are increasingly finding new life as profitable a...
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FOR BUYERS Is Britain's bad weather washing companies into administration?In business there are some things that are well within your control and, unfortunately, there are so...
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FOR BUYERS Late payments costing small businesses billionsThe UK’s sole traders and small businesses could be owed up to £2.5 billion each year because of ...