M&A Confidentiality: How Often Do Leaks Happen?
In the EMEA area, the leak rate is over 10% according to Intralinks. In the Americas, it’s roughly 6%. And the countries with the highest rate of leaks are India, South Korea and Japan....
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UK Companies Bracing For Hot M&A Activity In 2017
Various reports in the UK media are predicting bumper M&A activity for British businesses in 2017. First up is The Telegraph, who claim M&A activity is going to be “rampant”. That gained the immediate...
High M&A Demand For Analytics & Data Firms. Apparently.
ZDNet claim that the M&A market for analytics, data, business intelligence and machine learning companies is …hot. They call it an All You Can Eat Buffet. Consider the following acquisitions in the data and...
The Anatomy Of An M&A Deal – Hootsuite’s Acquisition of Adespresso
Adespresso explain the evolution of their deal to be acquired by Hootsuite … and it lays bare the trials and tribulations of the M&A process. It’s a must-read for any founders looking to take...
The Death Of Venture Capital? The Good & Bad News
ZeroHedge attracts attention today with its clickbait header about the potential death of VC firms. They quote this Bloomberg article and the associated stats showing declines across the board – from startup funding to...
Small M&A Firms Have Changed The Deal Market
A couple of weeks ago we mentioned an article in City A.M. about M&A boutiques grabbing market share from the large investment banks. The FT publishes a similar story, based on the same Dealogic...
The Hot List – Businesses For Sale Top Sectors
BusinessesForSale.com is one of the most popular places to list a business for sale. Given the hundreds of thousands of listings they handle they are well placed to give us a snap shot of...
Boutiques Have Snatched M&A Market Share From Banks
Boutiques are small specialist M&A firms or banks with a focus on a specific region / sector. They tend to be small (few dozen to a few hundred employees) … and they have been...
£70bn Of City Firms Sold In 180 Days Thanks To Fall In Pound
The Daily Mail provides several recent examples of foreign buyers taking advantage of the cheap pound to gobble up UK firms. The pound fell sharply as a result of Britain’s referendum decision in June...
France Financing Funds For FinTech (and other tech acquisitions)
Via Bloomberg: BpiFrance, an investment fund supported by the government, has called in VCs and other entrepreneurs to teach France’s top corporate finance chiefs about acquiring startups. The aim is to triple tech deals...
2016 Had A Very Active M&A Market For Health Businesses
Mobile Health News explains why 2016 has been a mega year for merger and acquisition activity in the health sector with details of the 41 largest deals done this year (5 more than in...
Growth After The Vote – How To Get Deals Done In Post Brexit Britain
This free white paper (registration required) provides an insight into the state of present deal making in the UK and what those at the heart of the industry have to say about positioning business...
Go Digital If You Want To Appeal To Private Equity
In a recent survey conducted by PwC, it emerges that digitising is high on the agenda for private equity houses. They are converting from analogue to digital not only their internal processes but are...
UK Telecoms Watchdog: Give Us More Power To block M&A Deals
Ofcom, the UK’s telecommunications watchdog, wants more powers to block M&A deals post Brexit, particularly if the company involved has strategic importance. In a speech to the Institute of Government, Sharon White of...
How To Get Part Of The £400m The UK Government Just Announced For Small Businesses
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, our fancy name for our finance minister, presented his autumn statement to Parliament today and announced £400 million of new funding for venture capital firms to invest in...
Recapitalization Replaces Burnout As Top Reason For Sale
According to the International Business Brokers Association Q3 market report, raising capital has replaced owner burnout as the reason for going to market. This research applies to mid-market firms ($5 million – $50 million)...
