FOR BUYERS
A confluence of factors, spanning infrastructure investment and sustainability to low company valuations and persistent distress, are creating the conditions for significant dealmaking within the UK’s civil engineering industry....continue reading
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The deal was everything Karl Watkins thought he’d been striving for. After 22 years building this business from a spare-room start-up into a £14 million specialist engineering group, CEO Karl Watkins was approached by a pri...continue reading
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M&A activity has continued to grow in the building products & services (BP&S) sector, with the industry seeing a record increase in M&A transactions during 2024. Despite challenging trading conditions over recent years, dealmaking...continue reading
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London’s financial circles are buzzing with deal activity, as overseas buyers and private equity firms circle UK-listed companies like bargain hunters at a summer sale. While headlines warn of an exodus from London’s publi...continue reading
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Companies targeting acquisitions in the communications and IT sectors have a “high level of underlying confidence”, despite a significant dip in activity at the start of 2025, with new research revealing that M&A is still a ce...continue reading
SECTOR GUIDES
UK recruitment companies find themselves in a challenging position in 2025, as they face rising costs and persistent economic uncertainty – headwinds that are also impacting the wider UK jobs market. In spite of these challenges...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
2025 is an uncertain time for recruitment companies. Rising employment costs, digital disruption from technologies such as AI and renewed economic turmoil amid the uncertainty over President Trump’s tariff policies have all hit ...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
What’s the goal of any business acquisition? There are, of course, any number of strategic considerations that go into M&A deals. Some are purely financial, others are market-led as the buyers pursue horizontal or vertical int...continue reading
SECTOR GUIDES
Automation is driving widespread transformation across a number of key UK industries and becoming an increasingly prevalent trend in M&A within these sectors. Despite a slow pace of adoption among UK companies, investment is i...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
Automation is driving a revolution in the way many labour intensive industries operate, offering greater efficiency, improved productivity and, crucially, the potential to significantly cut costs by performing tasks that would oth...continue reading
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