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Stop valuing your business on a spreadsheet
- December 2025
Two acquisition deals we recently reported on nicely illustrate a few points we have previously made about business valuations. If you strictly followed EBITDA multiples, Jadu Holdings - a software firm based in Leicester with a £0.3m loss last year - should have been worthless. Instead, it ju...
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FOR BUYERS What do you know about TUPE?The other day I was talking to a business purchaser who told me he was just about to draft his Heads...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Tape Regulations 2006 - A recap
When buying all or part of a business, it is important to be aware that you will inherit not only it...
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FOR BUYERS Due diligence tips
The importance of due diligence to the success of a transaction is often underestimated. We thought ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CGT Earn-outs Omission
There exists a glaring omission in the new Capital Gains Tax rules - they did not address earn-outs....
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS CGT - The Devil is the Detail
Well, what a surprise. Several hours after the chancellor announced the changes to the capital gains...
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FOR SELLERS Chancellor announces CGT changes for business owners
Alistair Darling today issued a major concession to the forthcoming capital gains tax changes due to...
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FOR SELLERS Getty Images hoists up the For Sale sign
Getty Images, the market-leading stock photography vendor, is up for sale. Or, at least, it admitte...
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FOR BUYERS Tips for successful due diligence
The importance of due diligence to the success of a transaction is often underestimated. I thought i...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Tech and media acquisitions hotting up for 2008
Last year saw a wave of consolidations across the media and technology sectors, and my view is that ...
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FOR BUYERS Achieving Acquisition Goals
The current slowdown in the M&A marketplace now gives business owners a chance to look back and take...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Capital Gains Tax Decision Delayed
It looks like the Chancellor is going to have a busy New Year with the Northern Rock crisis and prob...
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FOR BUYERS 80% Tax Rise for Business Vendors
For the first time in recent memory, the British business community has united around a single cause...
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FOR BUYERS VAT considerations when buying a business
VAT must be considered when buying a business, as with any corporate deal. If not addressed quickly,...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Essential skills an MBI candidate requires to secure equity funding
A management buy-in (MBI), wherein the control of the business passes to outside management, will ty...