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Prism has announced the 2014 dates for their popular seminars

Posted on Feb 04, 2014 in Articles

Prism’s Maximise the Value of your Business seminars are hugely popular for business owner-managers considering selling their business or those looking to expand or diversify through acquisition. The Prism team run two seminars, one aimed specifically at owner-managers of ICT businesses (the ICT sector is...

Meet Prism at the London Boat Show 2014

Posted on Jan 01, 2014 in Articles

Thinking of Buying or Selling Your Marine Business? Explore your options FREE at the London Boat Show – January 2014. Following the success of the meetings we arranged at the Southampton Boat Show, we are delighted to announce that we are arranging a further series...

Selling Your Business – The Legal Process

Posted on Dec 14, 2013 in Articles

By Duncan Walker, Walker Wallis Solicitors Most people who are looking to exit their business are “first-time sellers”. It’s very helpful to know in advance what the legal process actually involves. Heads of Terms The legal work usually starts when the terms of the transaction...

Prism announce date for their next popular ‘Maximise the Value of your Business’ Seminar.

Posted on Oct 15, 2013 in Articles

Whether planning to sell your business or not, learning how to maximise the value of your business is a must. Our half-day seminar takes you through the Six Essential Elements vital to Maximising the Value of any Business. Delegates also hear from a former CEO about...

Prism’s Top Ten for Business Acquisition

Posted on Oct 14, 2013 in Articles

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...

Peter Watson’s Comments on the Latest M&A National Statistics

Posted on Sep 03, 2013 in Articles

M&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...

Acquisiton Questions with RBS

Posted on Apr 02, 2013 in Articles

With 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...

Prism Facilitates Sale of velos-IT to Velocity Technology Solutions Inc.

Posted on Mar 09, 2013 in Articles

One 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....

M&A Post the Credit Crunch

Posted on Mar 04, 2013 in Articles

The 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...

Corporate and Finance – The Recovering Landscape

Posted on Feb 18, 2013 in Articles

By 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...