Vodafone appoints new head of corporate finance
Corporate Finance

Vodafone appoints new head of corporate finance

24y AccountancyAge.com

Vodafone appoints new head of corporate finance

Mobile phone operator Vodafone has appointed Charles Butterworth as director of group corporate finance. Read More...

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EC to relax rules on IPOs
Corporate Finance

EC to relax rules on IPOs

24y Accountancy Age

EC to relax rules on IPOs

The European Commission has significantly watered down its proposed directive on prospectuses following intense lobbying by the financial services ind...

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Tenon finance house grows business
Corporate Finance

Tenon finance house grows business

24y Larry Schlesinger

Tenon finance house grows business

Tenon Livingstone Guarantee, the corporate finance subsidiary of listed accountancy consolidator Tenon, is expanding as it takes on additional staff. ...

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Grant Thornton ensures tasty MBO
Corporate Finance

Grant Thornton ensures tasty MBO

24y AccountancyAge.com

Grant Thornton ensures tasty MBO

Mid-tier firm Grant Thornton has successfully advised the management buyout of food processing company John Rannoch Limited. Read More...

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Boateng defends use of PFI contracts
Corporate Finance

Boateng defends use of PFI contracts

24y AccountancyAge.com

Boateng defends use of PFI contracts

Paul Boateng, the recently appointed chief secretary to the Treasury, says private finance initiative deals are only used where they deliver value for...

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Corporate finance deals dry up
Corporate Finance

Corporate finance deals dry up

24y Philip Smith.

Corporate finance deals dry up

It is a nerve-wracking time for corporate finance specialists in the accountancy firms as new figures show the value of work has nosedived. Read More...

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Objectivity in corporate finance
Corporate Finance

Objectivity in corporate finance

24y Accountancy Age

Objectivity in corporate finance

A major part of professional life is about identifying conflicts of interest, managing them where possible, and rejecting the work where it is not. Re...

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Objectivity in corporate finance
Corporate Finance

Objectivity in corporate finance

24y Accountancy Age

Objectivity in corporate finance

A major part of professional life is about identifying conflicts of interest, managing them where possible, and rejecting the work where it is not. Re...

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Firms face corporate finance work crisis
Corporate Finance

Firms face corporate finance work crisis

24y Philip Smith.

Firms face corporate finance work crisis

Crisis looms over the corporate finance departments of accountancy firms after it emerged that deal values have plummeted by nearly two thirds over th...

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WebOrator set to float
Corporate Finance

WebOrator set to float

24y Accountancy Age

WebOrator set to float

Hacker Young has helped WebOrator, the online business marketing service, raise more than £225,000 through a share listing on OFEX, preparing the comp...

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Breaking up is easy for shareholders
Corporate Finance

Breaking up is easy for shareholders

24y Philip Smith.

Breaking up is easy for shareholders

Demergers are the way forward for shareholder value, with some splits boosting share prices by nearly 50%, new figures have revealed. Read More...

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Deal values plummet in corporate finance
Corporate Finance

Deal values plummet in corporate finance

24y Philip Smith.

Deal values plummet in corporate finance

Crisis looms over the corporate finance departments of accountancy firms after it emerged that deal values have plummeted by nearly two thirds over th...

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Why acquisitions don't work
Corporate Finance

Why acquisitions don't work

24y Accountancy Age

Why acquisitions don't work

We all know the statistics - two in three acquisitions fail. But what does this mean? Read More...

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Grant Thornton strengthens corporate finance team
Corporate Finance

Grant Thornton strengthens corporate finance team

24y Larry Schlesinger

Grant Thornton strengthens corporate finance team

Grant Thornton, the fifth biggest accountancy firm according to the Accountancy Age Top 50 has appointed six new partners to its corporate finance pra...

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Opinion - Deal's on, Touche wood
Corporate Finance

Opinion - Deal's on, Touche wood

24y Accountancy Age

Opinion - Deal's on, Touche wood

Deloitte & Touche expects to hear any day now whether its attempts to acquire the business of Andersen will escape the formal attention of the Europea...

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In defense of NEDs
Corporate Finance

In defense of NEDs

24y Accountancy Age

In defense of NEDs

NEDs - non executive directors - have been much in the news of late, usually under attack when companies fail or executives are perceived to have exce...

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M&A activity down
Corporate Finance

M&A activity down

24y AccountancyAge.com

M&A activity down

More evidence of the dire state of the mergers and acquisitions market appeared this week when KPMG Corporate Finance revealed the total value of glob...

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BDO finds itself top of the class.
Corporate Finance

BDO finds itself top of the class.

24y Philip Smith.

BDO finds itself top of the class.

Downsend School in Leatherhead, Surrey, has become the latest to be snapped up by independent school consolidator Asquith Court, thanks to BDO Stoy Ha...

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Music to the ears of Jazz FM
Corporate Finance

Music to the ears of Jazz FM

24y Philip Smith.

Music to the ears of Jazz FM

Last week Friday was the deadline for shareholders to approve the agreed deal between Guardian Media Group and Jazz FM, in a move that will see the ra...

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Dire straits for merger market
Corporate Finance

Dire straits for merger market

24y Philip Smith.

Dire straits for merger market

More evidence of the dire state of the mergers and acquisitions market has emerged, with the total value of deals slumping to its lowest for five year...

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Continence acquisition springs a leak
Corporate Finance

Continence acquisition springs a leak

24y Adriana Zea

Continence acquisition springs a leak

Competition minister Melanie Johnson says the acquisition of an SSL International subsidiary by Danish healthcare company Coloplast infringes UK compe...

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FATF looks within to fight terror financing
Corporate Finance

FATF looks within to fight terror financing

24y Larry Schlesinger

FATF looks within to fight terror financing

The Financial Action Task Force will release a report on Friday, revealing the results of an assessment of its own members' attempts to counter terror...

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UK companies lose out on IP revenues
Corporate Finance

UK companies lose out on IP revenues

24y Larry Schlesinger

UK companies lose out on IP revenues

The overwhelming majority of UK companies undervalue their intellectual property, denying themselves millions of pounds in untapped revenues, a new su...

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Following through post-IPO
Corporate Finance

Following through post-IPO

24y Accountancy Age

Following through post-IPO

Bad habits are hard to break. But starting as you mean to go on can be a valuable lesson. Read More...

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Lack of confidence hits IPOs
Corporate Finance

Lack of confidence hits IPOs

24y Philip Smith.

Lack of confidence hits IPOs

Experts now believe that confidence in the corporate finance markets is unlikely to return until the last three months of the year. Read More...

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E&Y culls staff in corporate finance arm
Corporate Finance

E&Y culls staff in corporate finance arm

24y Philip Smith.

E&Y culls staff in corporate finance arm

Big Five firm Ernst & Young is to axe four partners and up to 25 staff from its corporate finance arm following a decline in merger and acquisition ac...

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PKF finds buyer for Landis' UK training unit
Corporate Finance

PKF finds buyer for Landis' UK training unit

24y Larry Schlesinger

PKF finds buyer for Landis' UK training unit

Administrators at PKF have successfully negotiated the sale of the training division of European Telecom Landis Group to Sphinx CST. Read More...

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