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As confidence dips, M&A can be vital in helping UK SMEs to attain growth
- March 2025
With the UK's economic outlook seemingly worsening once again over recent months, highlighted by the recent Spring Budget, concerns are mounting that SMEs may put off plans to invest, potentially harming their growth prospects. With organic growth remaining a long-term challenge, M&A could be t...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Alternative lenders claim significant M&A market share in 2023New data has revealed that alternative lenders claimed a significant share of the UK M&A market in 2...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Cazoo’s struggles: Self-inflicted? Or a warning to the used car sector?As an online used car retailer launched within the last decade, Cazoo was in many ways a poster chil...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Insolvencies forecast to keep rising before situation improvesUK insolvency levels could rise even further this year, despite signs of economic improvement, accor...
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DEAL INSIGHT The most challenging aspect of selling a businessIn this video of our Deal Insight Series, we talk to Jonathan Jay about the most challenging aspect ...
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FOR BUYERS How Sir Jim Ratcliffe built INEOS into the UK’s biggest private companyUntil his acquisition of a 25 per cent stake in Manchester United, one of the world's richest f...
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SECTOR GUIDES Environmental & sustainability M&A – Consulting and Engineering driving dealsAmid the ever-growing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG), businesses in the en...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS South East the most active area for high-growth M&A outside LondonA new report has revealed that the South East of England was the most active region of the country o...
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DEAL INSIGHT How do you value a potential acquisition?In this video of our Deal Insight series, we talk to Jonathan Jay about valuing potential acquisitio...
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SECTOR GUIDES Consulting M&A remained resilient in 2023While many sectors saw a downturn in M&A activity last year, a new report has revealed that dealmaki...
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FOR BUYERS Financial services M&A sees 9 per cent fall in 2023M&A activity in the UK’s financial services sector fell by nine per cent last year, as dealmaking ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Could interest rate cut drive SME dealmaking?Following an unexpectedly sharp drop in the UK’s rate of inflation towards the end of last year, t...
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SECTOR GUIDES MedTech faces M&A challenges, but innovation and the economy offer hopeM&A activity in the UK MedTech sector experienced a tough year in 2023, with economic conditions res...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK M&A Outlook 20242023 was not exactly a bumper year for M&A, with the headwinds that defined much of 2022 continuing ...
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SECTOR GUIDES Hotels and niche sectors offer hope for travel M&A after slow 2023Travel and tourism saw slow dealmaking during the first three quarters of last year as the sector co...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Hospitality could see 2024 M&A surgeAnalysts are predicting that the UK hospitality sector could see a surge in dealmaking activity duri...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Companies increasingly looking to M&A to keep up with changing industriesA new survey has found that UK companies are increasingly looking to M&A activity to help them keep ...