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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 Venture Capital Trusts: a great tax shelterPrime minister-elect Gordon Brown has been the subject of a fair amount of criticism for widening th...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Private equity under fire
As most readers will no doubt be aware there has been a fierce debate engulfing the private equity (...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Earn-outs: Key issues to consider
When negotiating the deal, the seller should seek to keep as much control as possible over the asset...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Nursery Sector in Danger
One of the UK's oldest-established nursery chains has warned that government policy over provid...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Food manufacturers fall into foreign hands
One in five of all UK food manufacturing companies sold over the past ten years has fallen into fore...
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FOR BUYERS Private equity investment for small and medium sized companies
There has been something of an outcry in the media of late over the booming private equity industry....
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FOR BUYERS Budget 2007: budget for business?
Many small to medium sized businesses around the UK are more than a bit miffed about the March 2007 ...
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FOR BUYERS Buying a business: avoiding the ten main deal-breakers
We outline ten situations that most commonly cause deals to fail, and how to avoid them: 1. The bu...
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FOR BUYERS Post merger integration: company culture
When making an acquisition, a company can typically expect to gain access to markets, brands, techno...
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FOR BUYERS Raising finance for acquisition
Smart business purchasers will usually try to leverage their acquisition as the first priority. In o...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS How to buy or sell a private company
HOW TO BUY OR SELL A PRIVATE COMPANY Excerpts from the full version (available to su...
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FOR BUYERS UK Companies Entering Administration Reaches Highest Level For 10 Years
The latest corporate insolvency figures from credit agency Experian show that the number of UK compa...
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FOR BUYERS Internal Rate of Return and the Discounted Cash Flow Model
Valuing a business can often be a subjective process, and there are no hard and fast rules. When ask...
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FOR BUYERS Family business owners opt for sale
Owners of UK family businesses are increasingly opting to sell their business rather than pass it on...