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Significant financial distress up more than 30 per cent
- April 2024
New data has revealed that the number of UK companies in “significant” financial distress was up more than 30 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, with the macroeconomic challenges that businesses faced in 2023 continuing during the first three months of the year. According to ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Three quarters of SMEs worried about late payments
Approximately three quarters of small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are worried about cashfl...
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FOR BUYERS M&A activity forecast to be cautious yet stable in Q2 2023
M&A activity is expected to remain stable during the second quarter of 2023, despite a host of geopo...
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FOR BUYERS ESG & M&A - The correlation between ESG and company valuation
ESG is becoming a core consideration in many business’ M&A strategies and with good reason. Numero...
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DEAL INSIGHT What advice would you give to someone selling their first business?
In this video of our Deal Insight Series, we talk to Jonathan Jay gives his advice to first time bus...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Earnouts – The benefits, complexities and tax considerations
An earnout – a financial arrangement in M&A in which a portion of a company’s purchase price is ...
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SECTOR GUIDES Accounting firms broaden their focus to stay relevant
The trend for accounting firms to venture beyond their traditional areas of service has been highli...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Insolvencies on the rise at mid-sized UK SMEs
A new report has highlighted an increase in insolvencies among mid-sized UK SMEs over the past year ...
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DEAL INSIGHT When is the right time to sell a business?
In this video of our Deal Insight Series, we talk to Jonathan Jay about the right time to sell a bus...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Mergers and acquisitions in language services - Localisation, globalisation and fragmentation
Updated March 2024 - scroll to end Most industry sectors saw a drop in dealmaking activity in 202...
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FOR BUYERS Conducting due diligence in a downturn - Unlocking value and avoiding hidden risks
During a downturn or recession, M&A opportunities are rife, with valuations low and more businesses ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Finding M&A value in an economic downturn
During a recession or economic downturn, M&A activity will typically decline as sentiment dampens am...
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SECTOR GUIDES M&A in financial services - digitisation, disruption and divestments
As M&A activity dropped worldwide last year, the financial services sector remained something of an ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS How ego and pride can ruin a good deal...and a company
By Chris St Cartmail An intriguing tale of a cross-border private equity deal that failed at the ...
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FOR BUYERS Tips for scaling up your six-figure business prior to a sale
When you make the decision to sell your business, undertaking a fresh growth strategy might not be t...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS 2023: An outlook on developing M&A trends
After an explosive year of M&A in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, dealmaking returned to ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Elon Musk, Twitter and Acquisition Mistakes
"Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app." Elon Musk’s tweet may on...