A study by Ernst & Young has found that only 39% of companies increase their profits after going public. Read More...
View articleThe value of corporate finance deals in the UK continue to stagnate, with deals completed both home and abroad by UK companies falling to their lowest...
View articleThe absence of global conflicts over the past three months has led to a dramatic drop in company profit warnings, according to a study by Ernst & Youn...
View articleAs a result of plunging stock markets, floating shares on the stock exchange is no longer the obvious hassle-free route to raise cash. Companies in th...
View articleAfter a year of depleted deal activity, corporate finance seems to have become good at one thing - finding hope in statistics that continue to show re...
View articleThe government is set to grant venture capitalists exemptions from plans to increase capital gains tax on share options. Read More...
View articleA study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that large companies that undertake cross-border mergers face a 'tax' of up to £7m due to costs incurred b...
View articleInternational merger and acquisition activity between wealthy nations has fallen to it lowest level since the mid-nineties in the first five months of...
View articleConcerns are mounting among corporate financiers that an increasing number of UK companies will be referred to EU competition authorities, as part of ...
View articleAdopting a US-style approach to employee shareholdings will have far-reaching effects on MBOs. While some analysts are not impressed with the Inland R...
View articleA survey of venture capitalists has found that general sentiment about the economy is changing, with a greater number expecting an upturn in the next ...
View articleIn a move likely to bring optimism to the corporate finance sector, two accountants have led private equity companies in a £750m acquisition. Read Mor...
View articleCorporate financiers can, apparently, take heart this week. There are signs that something of a recovery may be on the way. Read More...
View articleDeal volumes may be declining but the prices paid for private companies are holding broadly steady. Read More...
View articleThe value of mergers and acquisitions in the European IT sector fell by almost 50% last year, according to a report released by Big Four firm Ernst & ...
View articleThe past few months have been interesting as well as challenging for supermarket chain Safeway and its finance director Simon Laffin, the effects of w...
View articleChoice Publishers has announced that it has bought out rival magazine group I Feel Good, set up by former Loaded editor James Brown and publisher of c...
View articleManagers of the corporate finance team buy back their business from Tenon, citing disappointment over the size of deals. Read More...
View articleSharp criticism has been levelled at a proposed new standard for the accountancy treatment of mergers, putting the ICAEW on a collision course with th...
View articleManagement buy-outs have fallen to their lowest level since 1996, as investors refuse to sell in fear of crystallising their losses, according to the ...
View articleA new survey has found that almost three-quarters of the British private equity and venture capital industry see no improvement in the corporate fundr...
View articleNo new trading companies have listed so far in 2003 to the main UK initial public offering market, making this the quietest quarter for over 20 years....
View articleTenon group is 'disposing' of Tenon Livingstone Guarantee, which represented £7.8m of Tenon's £10 corporate finance revenue in 2002. Read More...
View articleEuropean regulators are to overhaul their merger control system and next year abolish the Merger Task Force, which scrutinises most European deals. Re...
View articleThe merger that produced the global pharmacueticals provider AstraZeneca would not have gone ahead if the two companies had not had access to merger a...
View articleMichael Lindsay, a former director at Schroder Saloman Smith Barney, is to head up the real estate financing advisory practice at KPMG Corporate Finan...
View articleThe mergers and acquisitions market for deals below £100m is recovering even though that deals above that mark seem to have completely disappeared, ac...
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