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Join us next week, on Thursday the 5th of December at 12pm, for our next webinar: A deep dive into selling minority stakes in Private Companies. This time, Douglas Lawson is joined by Iain Baillie, Founder Director of Asset Match Limited. Iain began his career at Strauss Turnbull and Co and has been involved in UK and European Capital Markets for over 35 years as a trader of both equities and corporate bonds. In the webinar, the pair will explore the intricacies of selling minority stakes in Private Companies. They will also be covering: - What sets Asset Match apart from other market place? - What makes Asset Match and its continuous auction unique? - What is the appetite for companies/founders listing on the platform? - And More Register and sign up for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/eWwxynas

Please join us tomorrow, at 12pm, as we welcome Linzi Wilson from Consilium Chartered Accountants as the next guest on our weekly webinar. Douglas Lawson and Linzi Wilson will explore how Consilium Chartered Accountants has grown into a full service firm integrating corporate finance services alongside their core offerings. You can register and join for free via the link below: https://lnkd.in/gQPhfJ8s

Join us next week, on Thursday the 28th of November at 12pm, for our next guest webinar. This time, Douglas Lawson will be joined by Linzi Wilson from Consilium Chartered Accountants as the pair discuss practising corporate finance within an established accounting firm, This webinar is a continuation of our previous webinar featuring Kirsty McGregor back in September and is highly relevant to boutique accounting firms who are looking to expand their service offering. You can register and watch the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/gQPhfJ8s

I found myself nodding along enthusiastically with a number of comments from the Business Valuation Institute UK (BVIUK) gathering in London, specifically around the use of comparable transactions for valuation work. There is a healthy degree of scepticism about the source of some multiples and whether they are correct or not. This is THE key reason we set-up MarktoMarket - to provide the market with M&A/Valuation data that is verifiable that our customers can TRUST. We look under every rock to find more deal values and multiples than anyone else, then prove you can trust them by mapping all data points to their source. If you use transaction multiples in your job and have not seen this please let me know - I think it's a game changer and I hope our customers agree. #businessvaluation #BVIUK2024 #BVIUK #intellectualproperty Ed Tahsin Lewis Clarke Graham Antrobus Dr Magdalena Antrobus MA, PhD, C.Psychol Ben Macnaghten ACA MRICS

A pensive looking Joe Stroud of Aliter Capital LLP at the MarktoMarket Manchester Breakfast Seminar this morning. Joe was his usual erudite self, making for an easy and enjoyable session for me. Thank you Joe, top job. Aliter Capital LLP is a great supporter of MarktoMarket and has an interesting approach to lower mid market PE - investing in a low number of platforms in the fund with very active approach to M&A in each of these portfolio cos; a group of partners heavy on operational experience; and a simple and aligned deal structure (Ord shares only). The MarktoMarket data shows valuations ticking-up and dealflow robust. The anecdotal evidence from Joe and the guests broadly supports this. We all know Manchester has a vibrant private capital market with a broad eco-system of advisers, PE, VC, bankers, lawyers - our data illustrated how much has been going on in the year to date with some big cheques going into RSK Group, City Football Group (Manchester City, etc) and Freedom Fibre and some punchy exits involving Co-Operative Bank, Princes Limited and Vital Energi Utilities Limited. Thank you to all our attendees who braved the Arctic conditions to join us. As Mark Eardley left his Harrogate tent, he called to his wife: "I may be some time." She needn't have worried. He made it over the Pennines without a hitch. As did Kirsty McGregor 👏 Lots of others arriving dusted in snow from the outer reaches of Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside, etc. Thank you all for making the effort and taking the time. I hope it was worth it. #corporatefinance #manchester #privateequity

Join us on Thursday the 21st of November at 12pm, for our upcoming webinar looking at the MarktoMarket's November Valuation Barometer. Shaun Missenden will be looking at October's M&A transactions, EVs and their multiples; and with the pressure of the government's budget announcement, will we see an uptick in activity? Be sure to sign up and watch the webinar via the link below: https://lnkd.in/eSMJf8mC

What does the Business Valuation Institute Conference and a Labrador have in common? Absolutely nothing, but Linkedin seems to prefer collages of 3 photos and I only took 2 from the excellent Business Valuation Institute UK (BVIUK) on Friday. However, I did take a third snap of my old pal (and host) Henry's hound at the weekend so it will have to do. Dr Magdalena Antrobus MA, PhD, C.Psychol, with support from Graham Antrobus, Fiona Hotston Moore Expert Business Valuer and Non-Executive Director and Greg Brown, put on an event which was manna from heaven for an unapologetic business valuation geek like me. Nicholas T., CEO of International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC), drew some clever analogies from the world of football to explain why global valuation standardisation is important. Nick then moderated a session on regulatory change, with a panel of Andrew Strickland, Steve Thomas, Ben Elder and Graham Antrobus. A 'Red Book' for business valuation? Mike Blake, CFA, ASA, ABAR took to the stage to host a panel of Theresa Zeidler, ASA, David Haigh, James Palmer and Fernando Da Cruz Vasconcellos, PhD, MRICS to talk Intellectual Property Valuation, a new passion of mine (yes, really). Apologies Fernando for interrogating you on this afterwards - thank you for the feedback. Lunch with Olivier Pecon of Evelyn Partners - great company and realised we used to work in next door buildings at EY London. The final session was the Big 4 London Power Panel with Sandra Mossios, Katrina Hallpike, Matthew Warren and Andrew Robinson. Lots of pragmatic approaches which I would sum-up as follows - understand what the purpose of the valuation is, do the (considerable) work, then (most importantly) stand back and ask if it makes sense. One point around the data discussion, specifically on trustworthiness of transaction data......Sandra alluded to this but there ARE sources you CAN trust (eg MarktoMarket - all our data points are verifiable back to source). Didn't want to come across as a grubby sponsor by mentioning it on the day but worth stressing, I think. Thank you also for your thoughts on my long and meandering question on PE portfolio valuations. Finally drinks at the top floor bar of the Hilton Waterloo (great venue) and a chance to catch-up with customers and friends like Ed Tahsin, Ben Macnaghten ACA MRICS, Lewis Clarke, Steve Thomas, Adam Cooper Junior Sulemon, Amira Marshall, Tanya Craft and loads more. Missed you David Foster. Very, very well done Dr Magdalena Antrobus MA, PhD, C.Psychol and the team. Looking forward to next year. #businessvaluation #cpd #corporatefinance

Join us next week, on Thursday the 21st of November at 12pm, for our next webinar. This time, Shaun Missenden, Account Executive at MarktoMarket, will present MarktoMarket's November 2024 UK M&A Valuation Barometer featuring the latest deals, EV and multiples. Be sure to sign up and watch the webinar via the link below: https://lnkd.in/eSMJf8mC

Have you ever heard of SIC Codes? It is the list of descriptions that Companies House offers to describe your company's activities. Most of our customers find them very unhelpful when trying to find relevant companies for: 1. Market Mapping 2. Acquisition Searches 3. Building Buyer Lists 4. Valuation The codes are either too generic or outdated, the business may have been lazily categorised on incorporation, or it may have been given a nebulous title like "Activities of Head Office". All of this means that building meaningful lists of companies is inefficient and boring. Too many false positives to remove.....and too many false negatives to make you worry about what is missing. We kept hearing this feedback when we were building MarktoMarket so we created our own industry classification system and search logic, which allows you search across 9 million businesses to identify companies and markets that fit your criteria, no matter how niche. The other day a customer wanted to find software companies specialising in ERP systems for food and drink manufacturing, but not food and drink distribution. No problem. The customer then asked to see those companies that are owner-managed and have revenue of £2-5 million. Again, no problem. Our engineering team came up with creative solutions to solve this problem and we keep investing here to make it better and better. I love hearing our customers tell us that it makes their jobs much easier. Click the link below and book a (no obligations) demo with one of the team. (And feel free to come-up with the most obscure industry description you can muster.) https://lnkd.in/eT5dHZfm #sme #corporatefinance #privateequity #buyandbuild #businessdevelopment #origination #mergersandacquisitions #valuation

Join us this Thursday, the 14th of November at 12pm, for our upcoming webinar. This time Kathryn Stevenson will be joined by Michael Dunn, Partner at Dow Schofield Watts Corporate Finance, as the pair discuss corporate compounders, strategic acquirers and more. Michael Dunn joined Dow Schofield Watts in 2023 to launch its office in Cardiff. Michael and his team work with dynamic mid-market and owner-managed businesses, owners, private equity investors and management teams. This webinar is not to miss, sign up for the webinar below. https://lnkd.in/ePUwhSFW