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...
Category: News
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)...
Why Are Valuations Still Rising & Investors Paying, On Average, 11.2 x Earnings?
It’s been a torrid 2016. Apart from the problems in Europe, and worries about disruption as a result of Britain’s imminent departure from the EU, there’s the threat of the Fed raising rates, the...
Valuation – Your Data Could Be Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Data that companies hold, whether on customers, website users, subscribers etc., is often worth much more than businesses realise. Various news articles have covered the increase in M&A activity driven by firms chasing data,...
Annual M&A Awards – Booby Prize Goes To The Organisers
It’s that time of the year again, folk – time for the annual M&A Advisor Awards recognising the great and the good in the world of M&A. The 15th Annual Gala was last week...
Global Mega-Deals Make a Comeback
Merrill Corporation posts their latest industry analysis – a free report (but registration required). The Monthly M&A Insider explores the numbers, movements and trends in the global M&A market as well as revealing the...
Is President Trump Good Or Bad For M&A?
Against all odds, Donald Trump will soon be President of the USA. God Bless (or Help, given your point of view) America. But he has in the past expressed interest in blocking large M&A...
Everybody’s Going Gaga Over Latest M&A Stats
Okay, so October has been a bumper month for M&A. But it’s got a lot of news sites and blogs very excited indeed. Yahoo has a post today on Why so many companies are...
