Negotiation is an important part of achieving maximum value on business sale and as keen practitioners we are watching the Brexit manoeuvres with some interest. Apparently, the UK negotiators turned up with an 100 strong delegation, nearly three times their counterparts. Meanwhile David Davis was...
Continue readingLast week Prism’s MD, Peter Watson, was back at the Cranfield School of Management co-presenting a two-day Selling Your Business Masterclass. Peter has had a long association with the Cranfield through their highly acclaimed Business Growth Programme (BGP) on which he has been...
Continue readingGrowing Your Business I spent last Friday at Cranfield School of Management, sitting on a panel reviewing business plans prepared by participants of their Business Growth Programme (BGP). Followers of Prism will know that I have a long association with Cranfield and BGP,...
Continue readingTM-the-PM’s election announcement last week caught most of us by surprise (even, rather pleasingly, most of the media). But what of the implications for Technology M&A? Some more uncertainty, yes, but we live in an uncertain world and with the techMARK All Share index up...
Continue readingHere at Prism it has been a very active start to the year. We went into 2017 having just completed the sale of B2 Group (a leading MPS player) to Arena Group and have since completed five further transactions – see our news pages for...
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Flint IT has been acquired by Virtual IT in a deal facilitated by technology focused M&A specialists Prism Corporate Broking. Flint IT was established in 2005, since then the company has grown in size, to support over 1,500 users, and in reputation, trusted to deliver...
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The Prism team has announced the sale of Internet of Things (IoT) technology business NextG-Com to ARM. It’s been a whirlwind of a year so far for the Prism team, with this latest high profile deal our fifth since the start of 2017. NextG-Com offers...
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This latest acquisition is part of Cloud Direct’s ongoing, ambitious organic and acquisitions-based growth strategy that it has been working on with Prism Corporate Broking. It follows hot on the heels of Cloud Direct’s January acquisition of alwaysON Group, a Microsoft gold partner for hosting...
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Cloud Direct acquires alwaysON to bolster Skype for Business offering. The Prism team has led the latest Cloud Direct acquisition, as today it has been announced the acquisition of alwaysON Group (AOG). This is Cloud Direct’s fourth company acquisition since June 2015. It supports Cloud...
Continue readingWe have frequently warned about what we refer to as ‘the myth of the multiple’. The two principal points being: 1. that unless you are privy to the full details of transactions, multiples can be highly misleading, and 2. that you must...
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