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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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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Issa brothers, TDR Capital to acquire Asda in highly-leveraged takeoverBrothers 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 growthWith 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 opportunitiesWhile the UK economy remains in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope offered by vaccines me...
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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 Pub heavy hitters cash in on the anticipated Great British Pub RecoveryIf there’s one thing that’s been made clear through the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s th...
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FOR BUYERS ‘Race to complete’ wealth management deals as M&A takes offFollowing an unstable year in the advice and wealth management sector, the race is on to complete de...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES One-third of UK businesses close to running out of cashNine months of interrupted trading have taken an enormous toll on UK businesses across many sectors,...
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DEAL INSIGHT Buying a business out of administrationIn this video of our Deal Insight Series, Jonathan Jay talks about buying a business from administra...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS The outlook for SPACs in the UKAmong the possible UK M&A trends as we look ahead to 2021, one causing particular discussion has bar...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Capital Gains Tax – The proposed changes and what they could mean for business salesWith vaccines hopefully bringing the COVID-19 crisis to a long-awaited conclusion in 2021, thoughts ...
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FOR BUYERS The rising cost of professional indemnity insurance and its impact on business salesThe mounting cost of professional indemnity insurance (PI) has become an issue that neither business...
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FOR BUYERS Alternative deals emerge as go-to option for dealmakers in 2020The pandemic has hit the 2020 M&A market hard. There’s no denying that it’s had an impac...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS COVID-19, pre-pack administrations and distressed acquisitions - 2020 in reviewThere’s not much left to be said about 2020, a year of enormous upheaval and disruption across...
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FOR BUYERS Tighter pre-pack regulations - What could the proposed changes mean for dealmaking?Pre-pack sales are a vital tool in business rescue. This much is not really up for debate. However, ...
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FOR BUYERS Remote learning drives wave of ‘EdTech’ investmentsLike so many other things we’ve previously taken for granted, COVID-19 has changed the way we ...
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FOR BUYERS Remote dealmaking – M&A in the time of COVID-19The most fundamental of the numerous changes COVID-19 has wrought to M&A is the way deals are conduc...