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UK bucking global trend of rising insolvencies
- March 2025
UK companies are reportedly bucking a trend of rising global insolvencies, with UK company collapses falling last year and forecast to drop over the next two years. By contrast, worldwide insolvencies significantly increasing during 2024 and expected to rise further still in 2025 and 2026. The dat...
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FOR BUYERS Study suggests due diligence taking significantly longer than a decade agoAccording to new research from Bayes Business School conducted for SS&C Intralinks, investors are ta...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Company insolvencies fall as activity improvesOfficial data has revealed that fewer companies fell into insolvencies across England Wales during M...
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SECTOR GUIDES NatWest boss predicts further UK banking consolidationThe CEO of NatWest has predicted that there will be more consolidation in the UK banking industry ov...
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DEAL INSIGHT How do you find out about distressed business opportunities?In this video of our Deal Insight Series, Jonathan Jay talks about searching for distressed business...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS In M&A, crime definitely does not payM&A transactions are often complex and sometimes risky. Will the merged group generate the revenu...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK M&A expected to rebound from quarterly declineNew figures have revealed that the number of UK M&A deals declined during the first quarter of the y...
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SECTOR GUIDES Time to buy into UK services sector?The strong performance of businesses in the UK’s service industries has provided one of the cleare...
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DEAL INSIGHT Buying a business out of administrationIn this video of our Deal Insight Series, Jonathan Jay talks about buying a business from administra...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Lynx Equity – 60 business acquisitions and countingLynx Equity Limited is a private equity firm that specialises in the acquisition of small and medium...
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FOR BUYERS 90 per cent of IFAs and financial planners predict more M&AA new survey has revealed that nine in 10 (90 per cent) independent financial advisers (IFAs) and fi...
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FOR BUYERS Food and drink deals hit highest volume since 2016M&A activity in the food and drink sector has reached its highest volume since 2016, according to a ...
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FOR SELLERS Early preparation crucial to capitalising on M&A reboundTakeover interest in UK companies has surged to its highest level in years, meaning that M&A now rep...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Construction insolvencies fall amid economic optimismAdministrations in the UK’s struggling construction sector fell sharply last month, amid signs tha...
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FOR SELLERS The importance of decentralising a business ownerBy Chris St Cartmail, Certified Exit Planning Adviser For many entrepreneurs, the idea of defining a...
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SECTOR GUIDES Distressed retail M&A: Opportunistic or strategic?Retail has been one of the sectors most notably impacted by the one-two punch of COVID-19 and the UK...
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SECTOR GUIDES Insurance M&A: UK continues to lead the way, but supply is fallingA new report has found that the UK continues to lead the way in a busy European market for insurance...