How to Build a More Valuable & Sustainable Business Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but value is the reason. That is to say, the ‘reason’ many build successful businesses and work incredibly hard is the hope to sell those businesses for ‘beach money’ – beach being the metaphor for the financial freedom to choose…
9 minute read The skills and knowledge required to manage companies and create shareholder value have historically sat firmly in the realm of public companies. This is because listed public shares are ‘traded’ daily, thereby providing a daily ‘valuation’ of the business and company executives’ performance based on the value and earnings they achieve per share.…
6.5 minute read The M&A market continues to go from strength to strength. Trade buyers need to make acquisitions to shift their business models and create scale and private capital is looking for the yields that smaller businesses can provide. Valuations are holding and if you are planning to sell your business, the following revisited…
Mergers & Acquisitions post-COVID Kevin Uphill and Tim Hardman of Avondale Corporate will look at mergers & acquisitions post-COVID-19. From strategic trade deals to Employee Ownership, MBO sales and Private Equity investment. Topics covered include: • Valuation methods and deal structures • Latest trends • Identifying the right deals • Identifying the right buyers or…
Private Equity Demystified Over half of all M&A transactions in the UK in the last year have been Private Equity led or financed. It is no longer good enough to avoid understanding these transactions because we don’t like ‘the suits and spreadsheets’. When structured correctly, they can be hugely effective at blending both exit and…
Is this a lucky Chancellor? A faster than expected growth economy, plus inflation, has resulted in more taxes being collected and more money available to be spent. In relation to businesses, we see, and welcome, business rates being cut in hard-hit sectors like leisure and hospitality, and the R&D tax reduction remaining in place. Additionally,…
5 minute read Quite often a ‘good’ company is perceived as being average. In the 1990s, well-known management books such as “Good to Great” and “In Search of Excellence”, further re-enforced this view. ‘Great’ or ‘excellent’ is the mantra and ‘good’ is not sufficient. This is a shame, as it can result in CEOs and…
2021 M&A Trends and Mid-Year Review It’s a world of volatility and low organic growth; yet many businesses are still outperforming expectations. It’s also a world of superabundant capital – too much money that is looking for a yield, which is rocket fuel for buy-outs. M&A is a critical component of strategy, so what is…
6 min read With high fees, leveraged debt and now the takeover of cherished public companies, Private Equity firms (“PE”) may be viewed as the new imperialists, dominating every sphere of the corporate world. So how does this translate within the emerging mid-enterprise (EME) market – that is, businesses with an enterprise value of £3-£50m?…
4 min read An Employee Ownership Business could be described as ‘Purposeful Capitalism’ a term used to explain making money with ethics –it means there is a purpose to the venture and activities and a positive ethos or spirit to the business model. The strategic choice to be a ‘good’ company is no longer defined solely…