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How are talent shortages driving M&A? A recent EY Global Capital Confidence Barometer report found that 52 per cent of the businesses they spoke to said they were planning to actively pursue M&A in the coming months. The survey found that motivations for deal activity centred around the desire to boost their transitional capabilities. In other words, businesses need to be highly adaptable and flexible in order to compete in an increasingly tech-driven world. Agility is the new must-have capa...
Private Company Price Index (PCPI)
It has been a busy last six months for mergers and acquisitions and early indications at the start o...
Growing trend for vendor due diligence
As trade buyers return in greater numbers to the M&A market, there is increasing competition to buy ...
Poor Performance of family run businesses
Five years of research by the Centre for Economics Performance at the London School of Economics, an...
Will 2007 be another record year?
2006 has been a record year for global M&A, and the latest reports from financial institutions show ...
Quick guide to corporate insolvency
Over the past six months stories about retailers and businesses "going into liquidation," "calling i...