An Article by Prism’s Peter Watson Getting the right team together to make an acquisition, and ensuring good communication between client and advisers, is key. There are many traps for the unwary and Peter, Director of Corporate Finance, has set out his top ten tips...
Continue readingM&A levels are still well below pre-credit crunch levels and we believe this remains a result of the weakness in the banks and the restriction on cashflow lending. These structural problems tend to restrict deals to those where cash sums or credit lines are available...
Continue readingWith Peter Watson from Prism and Steve Noon from RBS Is Acquisition Funding available? “Absolutely yes. Acquisitions have formed a significant proportion of the deals we have funded over the last few years, ranging from small opportunistic acquisitions to significant reverse acquisitions for AIM listed...
Continue readingOne of the UKs leading ERP application managed services providers has been sold to US cloud applications services company Velocity, in a deal brokered by Cambridge based Prism Corporate Broking. Headquartered in Glasgow, velos-IT provides Oracle ERP hosting and support services to enterprise customers worldwide....
Continue readingThe past few months been a roller coaster as regards the economy and no part of the UK economy will be immune to the effects. For Mergers and Acquisitions, the key effect of the credit crunch has been the availability of acquisition finance. Interestingly the...
Continue readingBy Daniel Rooke, Taylor Vinters Solicitors Much has been made – and with good reason – of the post-Lehman deal landscape over the past few years following the collapse of America’s fourth largest bank in September 2008. Private deal values across Europe from 2008 to...
Continue readingOur popular seminar guides delegates through the Six Essential Elements vital to Maximising the Value of any Business. Whether you are planning to sell your business or not, maximising the value of it is a must. In just half a day our FREE seminar take you through six essential...
Continue readingStart planning early – it can take months or years to prepare a business for sale and in doing so, ensuring that full value is obtained. Become better known in your industry – it can be very beneficial to have an active role in your industry...
Continue readingLocal businesses, Needham Chalks and Alliance Technical Laboratories Ltd, have been acquired by Bishop’s Stortford based Harlow Agricultural Merchants.The Needham Chalks business along with its quarries, have been sold to Harlow Agricultural Merchants (known to many as HAM) in an asset deal. HAM also acquired...
Continue readingM&A remained at historically low levels in the second quarter of 2012. “Its no real surprise that activity levels remain depressed overall given the continued economic uncertainty, though there is some improvement over Qtr 1 which is reassuring. We expect this slow recovery to continue – certainly...
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