Retail acquisitions continue to defy the general trend of collapsing acquisition activity as booming consumer spending beats gloomy economy expectatio...
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View articleMajestic Wine has been voted AIM company of the year at the seventh annual AIM awards, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the London Stock Exchan...
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View articleThe amount of money being invested by corporations in start-up companies has fallen dramatically since the dotcom bubble burst, matching a general dec...
View articleIt will be next week before the world knows who will be the finance director of the company that will be created from the merger between Carlton Commu...
View articleLloyds TSB is to introduce credit interest on current accounts for SMEs with a turnover of up to £25m per year. The move, a response to the Competitio...
View articleThe number of companies floating on the stock market has plummeted in the year to date, while the value of management buy-outs has boomed, according t...
View articleMost people involved in flotation work are aware of the proposed Prospectus Directive issued by the EC. But how many are aware of its detailed provisi...
View articleThe withdrawal of the Big Four from regional corporate finance work has created a vacuum which mid-tier firms are keen to fill. Read More...
View articleVenture Capitalists are confident that deal activity will pick up over the next six months, with disposals of non-core subsidiaries providing the bigg...
View articleThe corporate finance market is facing one of its biggest shake-ups since the large firms began to muscle in on the investment banks' territory a deca...
View articleA dearth of big ticket work for Big Four corporate finance firms is creating a new competitive battlefield on territory traditionally occupied by the ...
View articleStephen Barrett has been appointed as the next international chairman of KPMG Corporate Finance. Read More...
View articleFears are growing that accountants working at the heart of the beleaguered corporate finance sector could soon lose even more work as a result of a Eu...
View articleUK venture capitalists are upbeat about the prospects for increased deal activity in the market over the next six months, according to the latest quar...
View articleMobile phone operator Vodafone has appointed Charles Butterworth as director of group corporate finance. Read More...
View articleThe European Commission has significantly watered down its proposed directive on prospectuses following intense lobbying by the financial services ind...
View articleTenon Livingstone Guarantee, the corporate finance subsidiary of listed accountancy consolidator Tenon, is expanding as it takes on additional staff. ...
View articleMid-tier firm Grant Thornton has successfully advised the management buyout of food processing company John Rannoch Limited. Read More...
View articlePaul Boateng, the recently appointed chief secretary to the Treasury, says private finance initiative deals are only used where they deliver value for...
View articleIt 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...
View articleA major part of professional life is about identifying conflicts of interest, managing them where possible, and rejecting the work where it is not. Re...
View articleA 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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