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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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FOR BUYERS Nine solutions for bridging the COVID-19 valuation gap
What is the situation? Despite the resurgence in dealmaking that saw M&A recover from the seismic im...
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FOR BUYERS Upside Down Management - will more business leaders operate like Timpson post-pandemic?
With three decades of acquisition-led growth behind them, key cutting, shoe repair and watch repair ...
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FOR BUYERS Resilience and reform: Care home sector ripe for consolidation post-COVID
It’s been an incredibly tough year for the care home industry. Over the past twelve months, more t...
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DEAL INSIGHT How do you find out about distressed business opportunities?
In this video of our Deal Insight Series, Jonathan Jay talks about searching for distressed business...
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FOR BUYERS Exploit IP to Maximise Deal Value
How is IP affecting M&A deals?Clifford Chance’s ‘A Global Shift’ report highlights the impact ...
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FOR BUYERS Ad-tech: Could COVID be the making of this enigmatic sector?
Ad-tech is a historically topsy-turvy sector that has experienced several peaks and troughs over its...
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FOR BUYERS Opportunity knocks as the strain on the UK building industry continues
On the surface, the construction sector in the UK looks to be among those that are recovering best f...
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DEAL INSIGHT Buying a business out of administration
In this video of our Deal Insight Series, Jonathan Jay talks about buying a business from administra...
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FOR BUYERS Travel and tourism giants prepare for industry recovery with M&A activity
The next six months, at least, are likely to bring more of the same for travel businesses in the UK ...
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FOR BUYERS Can the UK get the balance right on FDI screening?
The UK is slowly emerging from the murky COVID/Brexit period and is arriving on the World stage on i...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS IR35 in the private sector: Could the new rules impact M&A?
From April 6 2021, IR35 rules relating to the payment of off-payroll contractors operating through l...
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FOR BUYERS UK business distress at record levels – what happens when support is turned off?
Recently, a series of different reports have indicated the scale of financial distress impacting UK ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Issa brothers, TDR Capital to acquire Asda in highly-leveraged takeover
Brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa and private equity firm TDR Capital are set to acquire the supermarke...
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FOR BUYERS How to pursue private equity backing for acquisitive growth
With the UK economy struggling to recover from the effects on the population of the coronavirus pand...
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FOR BUYERS Funding shortfall amongst SMEs creates acquisition opportunities
While the UK economy remains in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope offered by vaccines me...
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FOR BUYERS Pub heavy hitters cash in on the anticipated Great British Pub Recovery
If there’s one thing that’s been made clear through the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that us Brits ...