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Legal pros expect AI to drive most M&A processes within 10 years
- April 2025
A new survey of legal professionals by legal technology solutions firm Litera has found that law firms are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) within their dealmaking processes and that most professionals expect that AI-based technologies will be used to complete the majority of M&A processes in ...
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Post-acquisition finance strategyIn the run up to an acquisition, many buyers will spend the majority of their time on finance issues...
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FOR BUYERS Improving economy creates favourable climate for inorganic growthAfter years of trudging through negative news about the British economy, this week has seen yet anot...
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FOR BUYERS Government must address SMEs' financial fearsThe growth of small businesses is being stunted by the pressures and fears they face over financial ...
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FOR BUYERS Barclays set for dramatic shake up as investment bank failsBarclays has been wielding the axe this week with its investment bank on the receiving end of a few ...
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FOR BUYERS Booming UK automotive industry driving M&A increaseThe UK’s manufacturing industry has been hailed as one of the key drivers of the country’s econo...
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FOR BUYERS Liquidations up from 2013, research revealsThe Insolvency Service has released its Q1 figures to reveal how many companies ran into financial t...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Distressed businesses updateAlthough business insolvencies in the UK have fluctuated dramatically in recent years across sectors...
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FOR BUYERS Post-acquisition finance strategyIn the run up to an acquisition, many buyers will spend the majority of their time on finance issues...
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FOR BUYERS RBS cleared of profiteering allegations but trust not restoredEver since the icy grip of the recession took hold of the UK back in 2007, businesses and the genera...
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FOR BUYERS Bank of England delivers good and bad newsIt has been a bit of a mixed bag of news coming out of The Bank of England this week. Firstly, its ...
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FOR BUYERS UK's small food retailers starved of market shareIn a market that is so competitive that the proverbial Goliaths are slaying each other, what chance ...
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FOR BUYERS Late payments the cause of one in five insolvenciesAt the start of last month we wrote a blog that outlined the findings of a new WorldPay report. This...
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FOR BUYERS Number of British businesses in distress reaches record lowSuch has been the length and depth of the current recession that almost every politician or economis...
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FOR BUYERS One fifth of shops affected by retail administrations still vacantThere are opportunities aplenty for any UK company looking for a retail space as, according to new r...