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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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SECTOR GUIDES Understand technology business valuations: buy for less, sell for more
Though it’s often said that business valuation is more of an art than a science, we’d go one ste...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Threats and opportunities in the UK care home industry
The care home sector has seen more than its fair share of difficulty in recent years. Between 2011 a...
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FOR BUYERS Labour is the small business party, says Miliband
‘Labour is the party for small businesses’, at least that has been Ed Miliband’s message at a ...
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FOR BUYERS Small businesses to benefit from falling inflation and petrol prices
Small businesses received a welcome boost this week as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reve...
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Post Kraft/Cadbury M&A activity in the UK
7 September 2009 is a date enshrined in the UK mergers and acquisitions calendar. On that Monday mor...
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FOR BUYERS Government snooping 'incredible damaging' to small businesses, PCG says
HMRC has been accused of using “incredible damaging” tactics in its campaign to gain access to s...
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FOR BUYERS What the 2014 Budget means for business
The UK’s businesses received a boost today as the Chancellor George Osborne announced his 2014 Bud...
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FOR BUYERS Banks' lending habits to SMEs scrutinised again
The UK’s major high street banks are facing another inquiry into their lending habits towards SMEs...
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Buyers finding fresh opportunity in others’ losses
Operations that prove to be a drag on one business are increasingly finding new life as profitable a...
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FOR BUYERS Is Britain's bad weather washing companies into administration?
In business there are some things that are well within your control and, unfortunately, there are so...
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FOR BUYERS Late payments costing small businesses billions
The UK’s sole traders and small businesses could be owed up to £2.5 billion each year because of ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Food industry deals on the rise
The food industry is preparing for yet another increase in M&A deals over the course of 2014. After ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Post Kraft/Cadbury M&A activity in the UK
7 September 2009 is a date enshrined in the UK mergers and acquisitions calendar. On that Monday mor...
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FOR BUYERS GAME loses landmark cases for insolvency law
A fortnight ago we reported on an upcoming insolvency and property case involving the high street vi...