20 Apr 2022 The business case for building a Virtual Power Plant - and 5 IT watch outs if you do… By Les Viszlai I wrote in my previous article about the Energy Cloud and the benefits offered by Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Virtual Power...
07 Mar 2022 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review – Q4 2021 By Nick Wood 2021 has been solidified as a strong year for deal activity with 2,465 deals in Q4 ticking up 1% from Q3. This brings the full-year total...
01 Mar 2022 Silver linings in the energy cloud – how a practical, pragmatic approach can realize the benefits offered by Virtual Power Plants By Les Viszlai I wrote in my previous article about the growing influence of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and how...
06 Dec 2021 Negotiating TSAs and other carve-out complexities By Mo Habbas Private Equity involvement in corporate carve-outs has increased significantly since the beginning of the pandemic.In the UK alone, there...
03 Nov 2021 Carve-outs: all about value creation By Neto Alexander In recent years, we have seen large corporates actively managing their portfolio of business lines, with a growing number of firms of all...
03 Nov 2021 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review Q3 2021 By Nick Wood Although M&A activity is slightly down in Q3 on Q1 and Q2, it remains firmly above pre-COVID levels. The fourth quarter is usually the...
11 Aug 2021 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review Q2 2021 By Nick Wood By contrast with the second quarter of 2020, which saw deal activity in the global industrial sector at record lows as it felt the most...
08 May 2021 Industrial Quarterly M&A Review Q1 2021 By Nick Wood Global industrial M&A activity has made a strong recovery in the first quarter of 2021, after the significant impact on deal volumes at...
27 Apr 2021 Is a lack of homework creating parallels between the M&A and Housing markets in the UK? By Mark Veldon Sean O'Flynn Right now deal flow in the world of Private Equity is going through the roof. Pre-pandemic the amount of dry powder in PE coffers was...
29 Mar 2021 Generating value from performance improvement opportunities pre-sale By Nick Wood In our recent 'Uncomplicating Carve Outs' webinar we discussed key challenges from both sell-side and buy-side perspectives. One area...
24 Mar 2021 The people factor in business sunsetting By Sophie Welschlau Patrik Jacob Bernd Brunke Based upon our recently introduced “sunsetting” approach, here we focus on proactive management of a workforce throughout a carve-out and...
24 Mar 2021 Value Creation Plan development in a carve-out – getting to Day 2 and beyond. By Mo Habbas In our recent ‘Uncomplicating Carve Outs’ webinar we outlined the key steps and approaches needed to get to Day 1 and beyond with proper...
19 Mar 2021 WEBCAST: Uncomplicating carve-outs: simplifying the route to success in business separation By Mo Habbas Catherine Sherwin Nick Wood The M&A outlook for 2021 looks buoyant, as countries emerge from lockdown restrictions and vaccine rollouts reinvigorate consumer...
02 Mar 2021 How successful “sunsetting” can benefit from a smart carve-out first By Manuel Szerencses Birte Stamm Bernd Brunke Dennis Gotta +1 more... Show less Building on our recently introduced “sunsetting” approach, it's important to consider in detail how to carve out a business into a...
15 Feb 2021 The art of IT separation in carve-out operations By Amir Hosseini At a time when asset disposals and reconfigurations of strategic areas are driving the M&A market, IT separation is vital to the success...