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M&A

Growth Planning

The importance of commissioning due diligence – a new era of self-discovery

Pre-completion due diligence makes up the nuts and bolts of any deal, and it has become increasingly critical in the years since the credit crunch.

Venture Capital Funding

New paradigms in M&A

The absence of traditional lending has held back M&A activity this year, but companies are finding creative ways to do deals.

News

Hostile takeovers returning

Hostile acquisitions of public companies reached a three-year high in the third quarter of 2010.

News

Thames Valley M&A stays afloat

Geographically and financially, the Thames Valley looks well placed for an M&A recovery.

Alternative Finance for Business

No limits for EMC

International buyers and PE firms are driving corporate M&A transactions, which is good news for corporate finance firm EMC.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Advice Clinic: Acquisitive companies

Peadar O'Reilly, a regional director at Venture Structured Finance, outlines the characteristics of acquisitive companies in the current M&A market.

News

Dealmakers of the year: M&A Awards 2010

The M&A Awards recognised those entrepreneurs and advisers battling a tough climate to get deals signed off. GB meets the winners.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Blood, sweat and recruitment 

Spencer Manuel, founder of recruitment company NetworkersMSB, talks about his approach to structuring a big deal.

News

M&A Awards 2009

Hear what the cream of the M&A crop have to say about dealmaking during the last 12 months.

Mergers & Acquisitions

To merge or not to merge?

Joining forces with another company doesn’t have to be a sign of weakness, says Simon Cook.

News

Swings and roundabouts in Milton Keynes

This notoriously new city is faring no worse than older, more established regions at dealmaking.

News

KPMG forecasts gradual recovery for M&A in 2009

In its latest Global M&A Predictor, accountancy firm KPMG has forecast that deal activity will bottom out in the second or third quarter of the year, with the level of M&A gradually recovering in late 2009.