FOR BUYERS
Buying a business is not like buying a car. Get it wrong with a business and it is likely to seriously hurt your wallet. So how can you tell if you are looking at one where the wheels might fall off? Nick Pritchard from Transax...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Entrepreneurs' relief is a welcome concession to the small business community who felt that the loss of business taper relief was an unfair tax on those selling their businesses to fund their retirement. As such, the new re...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
When buying all or part of a business, it is important to be aware that you will inherit not only its employees, but the responsibility to honour all existing contracts, conditions of employment and any ongoing disputes, tribunal ...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Last year saw a wave of consolidations across the media and technology sectors, and my view is that 2008 will see this trend continue, perhaps even more dramatically. My hot category picks are: Mobile, particularly location-ba...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The current slowdown in the M&A marketplace now gives business owners a chance to look back and take stock after the breakneck pace of mergers and acquisitions in 2007. Despite the recent trend towards corporate acquisitions, the...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
It looks like the Chancellor is going to have a busy New Year with the Northern Rock crisis and problems over the business community's opposition to the CGT reforms. Continuing uncertainty over the scope of the Capital Ga...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
For the first time in recent memory, the British business community has united around a single cause - to utterly condemn the government's plan for a flat capital gains tax rate of 18%. Gordon Brown's dalliance with the...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
A management buy-in (MBI), wherein the control of the business passes to outside management, will typically involve private equity backing. Because this kind of venture is a higher risk to an investor than a management buy-out (MB...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
If you are a company looking to expand through acquisition, floating on AIM could be a viable way to raise acquisition finance. Since AIM opened in 1995, it has raised a collective £24bn for the 2,200 companies that have bee...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
Management buyouts are now one of the most popular forms of acquisition in the UK. Most often they are triggered by one of two situations: If the company has been identified as non-core by the large parent corporation that owns i...continue reading
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