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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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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Right conditions in place for tech M&A to pick up
Analysts from KPMG have already singled out the technology sector as ripe for a wave of M&A activity...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS British staycation trend sees hotel insolvencies surge
The last three months of 2009 saw a drop in company insolvencies in every UK sector except that of h...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Insolvency lag anticipated amid weak return to growth
Following six consecutive quarters of contraction, Britain may finally have emerged from recession, ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Clydes and Shadbolt finalise law merger
Plans have been finalised for UK top 20 law firm Clyde & Co to acquire parts of construction boutiqu...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS KPMG: M&A market set for modest return in 2010
After revisions of "over-optimistic earnings expectations" in 2009, the global and UK M&A market loo...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS OFT mulls over mobile merger review
The UK's competition watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is weighing up whether to carr...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Media M&A deals to pick up in 2010
After hitting their lowest levels last year since the dot.com crash of 2002, UK media M&A deals are ...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Fewer companies in administration
Aggressive cost cutting and improved cash management by firms has meant the number of businesses fal...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Due diligence reminder follows 2009 M&A analysis
Ensuring staff are trained to "deal with deals" and "being diligent' about due diligence are tw...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Report says private equity buyers hungry for ICT acquisitions
A report by Grant Thornton UK, the financial advisor firm, found that private investors continue to ...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Tories set to increase insolvency threshold
Conservative leader David Cameron says that he intends to increase the insolvency threshold from £7...
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SECTOR GUIDES Luxury tearoom and B&B business for sale in Ludlow
Many of us dream about quitting the rat-race and setting ourselves up with a nice café, B&B or gues...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS More activity in buying and selling of businesses anticipated in the food and drink sector
There are indications of a recovery in mergers and acquisitions in the UK's food and drink sect...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Exit strategies lacking among British businesses
Nearly three-quarters of sole traders in the UK do not have a business exit strategy in place, while...