This week’s blog comes from Faizul Ali and Paul Harragan We were recently interviewed by CityAM around how cyber security is increasingly playing a significant part in the ongoing value of an organisation and M&A activity. Whereby market capitalisation, EBITDA, cashflow and IP are some of the traditional metrics used to measure the value of … More Cyber as the new value driver
In EY’s latest Global Divestment Survey, 90% of European companies said that they plan to divest assets within the next two years. Of those divesting, 87% said the main reason for selling an asset was its weak position in its market place. How can companies prepare this type of business for sale? I think the answer … More How can analytics make targets more attractive?
This week’s blog comes from Matt Bartell, EY’s UKI Transaction Advisory Life Sciences Leader and Paddy Moser, co-leader of UKI Transaction Advisory Private Equity. There’s no doubt that health is one of the biggest stories in private equity right now. In the second quarter, the healthcare sector accounted for almost a quarter of global PE … More What’s behind PE’s latest health-kick?
I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that one of the world’s biggest investment banks collapsed ten years ago this week. Such was the magnitude of the crisis, that it still feels like we’re in the midst of the fallout and may be so for a generation. We usually come back after summer with a … More Should we look back to look forward?
This week’s blog comes from Julie Hood, Global Deputy Vice Chair of Transaction Advisory Services at EY. We’re all wrestling with how to future-proof our businesses. Digitisation and convergence have created bigger sector ecosystems with nimbler predators. The risk of being blindsided by a new technology or start-up has never been greater. Corporate longevity has … More Is your M&A strategy too safe?
This week’s post comes from Steve Ivermee, Managing Partner, UKI Transaction Advisory Services at EY. We’ve just experienced the biggest first half for global deals on record. Meanwhile, total UK deal values in H1 2018 were only surpassed by H1 2007, with domestic and inbound activity leading the charge. In my regular catch-up here on the … More Why is UK M&A booming in 2018?
In this week’s blog we use the latest and archive profit warning data – available on the new EY Profit Warning Console – to tell the story. … More Why are there more UK profit warnings?
