Growth Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to Beauhurst , the highest growth in the city’s tech scene comes from SaaS, accounting for 31 per cent of tech businesses, mirroring the trend country wide. 9 – Vertical Aerospace Stephen Fitzpatrick founded Vertical Aerospace in 2015 after founding unicorn Ovo Energy in 2009. The startup raised $10 million (£7.9

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

In May 2015, Keenan Auto Body hired FOCUS to represent it in its sale to ABRA. Unless you, or someone on your team (whether it's your attorney or your accountant), has been through this process before, you need someone there who knows not just how to get the best price but to create the right process and to make it stick.

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Growth Business

MAY 19, 2023

Recent figures from accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young found a record £2.3bn was invested into UK start-ups via the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) in the year ending April 2022 into 4,480 firms, showing the angel investment network in rude health. They’ve been generous with their cash, too. Contact: john@advantagebusinessangels.co.uk

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 10, 2024

Amidst the miserable deal environment of the past few years, there has been one bright spot: sports private equity. Over two-thirds of NBA teams have a private equity connection or investment , and all major U.S. Table Of Contents Sports Private Equity Defined Why Did Private Equity Suddenly “Get Interested” in Sports?

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Take, for example, the acquisition of Inovalon Holdings, a dual-class company that completed its IPO in 2015, by a consortium of private equity investors. Stockholder litigation. As always, ambiguity begets litigation. Teddy Nimetz. [1] 1] This post mainly focuses on venture capital-backed dual-class companies.

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OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

In June 2015, I transferred groups, moving to London and joining a European coverage group. I’ve had some friends use their credit card apps or manually budget via Excel, but personally, I have always subscribed to budgeting apps that sync to your bank accounts and credit cards, auto-categorizing your spending for you.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 10, 2023

Asia-Pacific sees ~$1+ trillion of M&A deal activity per year , and SE Asia accounts for only ~10% of that (note that the first image below is only for 9 months of the year, so the full-year numbers are higher): $50 – $100 billion of M&A deal activity per year may seem like a lot, but it’s less than Canada in an average year.

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Software Equity Group

AUGUST 20, 2024

Founded in 2015, Valsoft has been among the most active strategic buyers of software, making 28 deals in 2023 alone. Visma Visma is a developer of cloud enterprise software that digitizes core business processes in the private and public sectors, including accounting, ERP, procurement, payroll, and debt collection solutions.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Carve out tech acquisitions also continued to be attractive to strategic and private equity buyers, with GTCR’s acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay from FIS for up to $18.5 Private equity activity accounted for only 27% of tech M&A in 2023, a six-year low (and a substantial decrease from the 2021 record of 36%).

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 19, 2025

Consumer retail private equity is so diverse that it almost seems like a paradox. Depending on the firm, a consumer retail private equity deal might consist of: A leveraged buyout of a struggling offline retailer. On the Job Recruiting Should You Go Shopping for Consumer Retail Private Equity Jobs?

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