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
DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
While buying a business out of insolvency may not seem an obvious choice, there are many advantages to it and it is increasingly becoming a preferred method of expansion by many companies. The fast pace of insolvency deals often l...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
Mergers and acquisitions are today recognised as one of the key ways in which to promote a business's growth. Dealmakers have learned from the mistakes of those involved in the high profile M&A casualties of the late 1990s, a...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Prime minister-elect Gordon Brown has been the subject of a fair amount of criticism for widening the tax burden on UK citizens, but one development deserving of consideration for business entrepreneurs and investors alike is the ...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
As most readers will no doubt be aware there has been a fierce debate engulfing the private equity (PE) industry. Not least the increased presence and power of these players in the M&A market but also the fabulous personal wealth ...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
One in five of all UK food manufacturing companies sold over the past ten years has fallen into foreign hands, according to a recent report by UK accountancy firm Grant Thornton. Analysis of the sector as a whole revealed that ove...continue reading
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