Thursday, January 27, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
| Tags: Grant Thornton,
awards,
Quoted Company Awards,
QCA,
winner
Here is Brian Winterflood, president of the Quoted Companies Alliance and founder of Winterflood Securities, receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award. Find out who else won at the Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards this year.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing
| Tags: M&A,
due diligence,
corporate finance,
acquisitions,
Story of the Deal,
cross-border,
buying a business,
subsidiary,
buying a company
Our second case study telling ‘The Story of the Deal’ goes behind the scenes of an international acquisition. What happens when a fast-expanding pharma company from India seeks the buyout of a UK vitamin and food supplement plc? Our
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
recession,
finance,
economy,
UK,
retail,
GDP,
inflation,
recovery,
Private Equity,
BCM,
PE Barometer,
double dip,
Business Confidence Monitor
Today is the first anniversary of the UK economy emerging from recession. But while preliminary data for Q4 2010 estimated a 0.1% rise in GDP, yesterday’s figures showed a surprise contraction – is it a blip caused by bad weather or a sign of the economy stalling amid recent austerity measures?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy,
Financing
| Tags: business,
media,
investment,
finance,
technology,
UK,
M&A,
debt,
financing,
Private Equity,
PE Barometer,
refinancing,
privately held businesses,
Healthcare,
valuation
So says Grant Thornton’s latest Private Equity Barometer. Read on for the key stats from our quarterly survey of more than 100 private equity executives in the UK…
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Technology sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
technology,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
video,
financing,
internet,
mobile,
deal,
startups,
storage,
scale
Technology is getting exciting again. Oscar Jazdowski, UK Head of Origination for Silicon Valley Bank, reviews the sector that is becoming both essential to and pervasive in modern life.
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
media,
finance,
technology,
digital,
business models,
Ten Alps,
trends,
funding,
TV,
ITV,
rights,
Apple,
software,
apps,
App Store
The world is mutating into one enormous and non-hierarchical content supermarket, says the CEO of Ten Alps, Alex Connock. And that is having a transformational effect on TV business models and funding channels.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
buying a company,
loan notes,
QCBs,
corporate bonds,
non-QCBs,
deferred payment,
entrepreneurs' relief
With cash in scarce supply, loan notes provided an excellent method of deferring the cost of buying a company. But recent changes in tax laws mean that they are now less appealing and holders of existing loan notes are likely to be in for a nasty surprise, says Senior Tax Manager Nadine Elliott.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax
| Tags: Francesca Lagerberg,
IFRS for SMEs,
iXBRL,
red tape,
inline extensible business reporting language,
in-line extensible business reporting language,
burden on business
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