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Mergers & Acquisitions

Agile lower mid-market businesses key to driving deal flow

Ian Sale, managing director in the Acquisition Finance team at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, analyses how the performance of the lower mid-market could lead to its own investment focus. 

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Investment for business growth video: How acquisitions can accelerate growth

As part of an exclusive roundtable hosted by GrowthBusiness, we speak to four Business Growth Fund investments to see how M&A is working now capital is on the table.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Investment for business growth: Taking on capital for acquisitions

Acquisitions form an important part of many company development plans, and is a strategy currently being supported by the Business Growth Fund. GrowthBusiness meets four of its portfolio companies to find out how.

Mergers & Acquisitions

ISIS Equity Partners kicks off 2013 dealmaking with LBM exit

Investment firm ISIS Equity Partners has ended an eight-year involvement with LBM Direct Marketing by exiting its investment.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Technology M&A in the UK set for exciting year backed by private equity and corporates

Cash rich corporates are set to bolster the performance of technology mergers & acquisitions in 2013, accountancy firm BDO predicts.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Avoiding a false positive in mid-market M&A

Daniel Ball, director at software company Wax Digital, looks at what must be considered before, during and after any merger transaction.

Mergers & Acquisitions

New Takeover Code sees bid periods halved

A year on from the implementation of a new Takeover Code in the UK, new findings show that 57 bidders have been subjected to a 'put up or shut up' deadline.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Why are UK businesses so attractive to overseas buyers?

With M&A now being conducted on an increasingly cross-border basis, Raymond Fagan, partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, looks at why UK businesses are an attractive option for overseas buyers.

Mergers & Acquisitions

New Takeover Code sees bid periods halved

A year on from the implementation of a new Takeover Code in the UK, new findings show that 57 bidders have been subjected to a 'put up or shut up' deadline.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Why are UK businesses so attractive to overseas buyers?

With M&A now being conducted on an increasingly cross-border basis, Raymond Fagan, partner at Cavendish Corporate Finance, looks at why UK businesses are an attractive option for overseas buyers.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The importance of non-financial due diligence

Mike Robson, director at advisory firm Azure Partners, argues that those pursuing acquisitive plans must look beyond the traditional financial due diligence that dominates deal-making.

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M&A failings and types of suitors

Having looked at the reasons for, and pitfalls of, selling a company, business mentor Colin Turner examines why most M&A deals fail to complete.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquirers boost investment in India

The volume and value of deals in which overseas companies acquired Indian targets both increased sharply during 2011, despite a drop in overall deal activity in the country.

Mergers & Acquisitions

M&A sector watch with Peadar O’Reilly

Peadar O'Reilly, a regional director with Venture Structured Finance, gives his views on the current state of the M&A market and what sectors to watch out for in the coming months.