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...
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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...
UK: Record Money Flows Into EIS and SEIS
HMRC have released their latest stats on the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and the SEIS. Mark Brownridge, Director General of the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA), commented on the latest fundraising data: “The latest...
Hot Business List, The Sectors Most In Demand, September 2016
Business Brokerage Press compiles a monthly list of the types of businesses most in demand by buyers. The information is provided by the BusinessesForSale.com portal. The lists are compiled based not on actual sales...
Irish Firms Plot UK Takeovers To Skirt Tariffs Post-Brexit
The Irish Times has a story about how Irish companies are considering acquiring UK businesses to a) take advantage of the weak pound and b) “skirt possible trade obstacles post-Brexit”. “More and more clients...
Merger Deals Set Monthly Record In US (WSJ)
The US sets a new monthly record for M&A deals in October, according to the Wall Street Journal. Qualcomm Inc’s acquisition of NXP Semiconductors ($39 billion) is just one of the large deals that...
A Simple Email Leak Could Blow Your M&A Deal
Last month, DCLeaks published a treasure trove of emails from the hacked account of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Included was information on the various companies SalesForce was considering acquiring. All it takes...
MSP Acquisitions: What Buyers Look for In Sellers (free webcast)
Looking to sell a Managed Service Provider? Channel E2E is holding a free webcast on Thursday, October 27, at 2pm ET/11am PT covering MSP Acquisitions: What Buyers Look for In Sellers. The registration page...
China passes U.S. in outbound M&A
China has surpassed the U.S. as the largest source of outbound mergers-and-acquisition activity as a built-up mainland looks for other investment opportunities overseas. According to Dealogic, in the first nine months of the year...
Accountants and lawyers should work more closely on corporate finance transactions
ICAEW members and guests gathered at JW Marriott Marquis in Dubai on Wednesday 28th September, to discuss whether accountants and lawyers collaborate sufficiently on corporate finance transactions. The event was organised by ICAEW’s Corporate...
RBS squeezed struggling businesses to boost profits
RBS forced solid, viable businesses to fail …so they could make money from exit fees. “Many business owners complained that unrealistically low valuations were used to claim they had breached their borrowing limits...
New Business Rates Creates Opportunities For Investors (UK)
Business rates in the UK, are a changing. The Rateable Value is the basis on which yet another tax on UK businesses business rates are calculated. According to the .gov.uk site, From today (30...
Investor From China Wants To Buy Your Business? It could be a scam…
The China Law Blog today posts an article titled, “The China Fake Investment Scam: Does that Chinese Company Want to Invest in Your Company or Steal Your Technology?” It describes how some Chinese companies...
The Funny Game Of Fake M&A
Fake M&A – it takes so many forms! The Chinese forex regulator is cracking down on one type – the pretend overseas M&A deals invented to move assets and capital out of China....
Asia Watch: M&A Doom and Gloom … and, er, Boom
Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, plans a downsizing of nearly a third of its investment banking talent in Asia to get rid of approx 100 of its 300 staff, according to Reuters. GS plans...
Top 100 Law Firms Worried About M&A Slowdown
There have been several articles in leading law magazines and journals over the last few days warning about a slowdown in M&A activity impacting on revenues at those law firms which are reliant on...
