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One-third of UK businesses close to running out of cash

DISTRESSED BUSINESSES

Nine months of interrupted trading have taken an enormous toll on UK businesses across many sectors, with nearly a third of firms having less than three months of cash reserves remaining, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). New data from the ONS shows that, across all industries, 30.4 per cent of UK businesses have between 0-3 months of cash reserves, as the scale of business distress created by the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow. The situation is particu...

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

The outlook for SPACs in the UK

Among the possible UK M&A trends as we look ahead to 2021, one causing particular discussion has bar...

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Capital Gains Tax – The proposed changes and what they could mean for business sales

With vaccines hopefully bringing the COVID-19 crisis to a long-awaited conclusion in 2021, thoughts ...

FOR BUYERS

The rising cost of professional indemnity insurance and its impact on business sales

The mounting cost of professional indemnity insurance (PI) has become an issue that neither business...

FOR BUYERS

Alternative deals emerge as go-to option for dealmakers in 2020

The pandemic has hit the 2020 M&A market hard. There’s no denying that it’s had an impac...

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Learn about the difference between acquiring a startup and a long-established business....

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COVID-19, pre-pack administrations and distressed acquisitions - 2020 in review

There’s not much left to be said about 2020, a year of enormous upheaval and disruption across...

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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Remote learning drives wave of ‘EdTech’ investments

Like so many other things we’ve previously taken for granted, COVID-19 has changed the way we ...

DEAL INSIGHT

M&A market and Brexit

What affect has Brexit had on the M&A market?...

FOR BUYERS

Remote dealmaking – M&A in the time of COVID-19

The most fundamental of the numerous changes COVID-19 has wrought to M&A is the way deals are conduc...

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Medtech: The rising M&A wave

In a recent insight, we looked at how cybersecurity has been a sector that has bucked the M&A downtu...

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Government COVID-19 business lending hits £62 billion but criticisms persist

According to new figures released by the Treasury, the total value paid out to businesses through th...

FOR BUYERS

Cybersecurity M&A – A sector defining the new normal

The hammer blow that COVID-19 has dealt to global M&A activity is no secret, with deal-making all bu...

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From a standing start to a £300 million exit

In 1980, Dinesh Dhamija and his wife started selling travel tickets from an 80-square-foot kiosk in ...

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COVID-19 driving long-term change at UK SMEs

The impact of COVID-19, and the way in which businesses have had to react and adapt, is driving long...

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Packed auction houses as business distress set to surge

During the COVID-19 crisis the company has seen goods pour in from insolvency advisers appointed to ...

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