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Topical articles on debt advisory and growth finance

Read the latest articles on debt advisory and growth finance, covering raising debt for expansion and corporate strategies at all stages of the business life cycle.
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Budget: Key changes impacting business taxation
  • Article
  • 26 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty provides a summary of some of the changes affecting businesses announced at the Budget, including capital allowances and business rates as well as adjustments to penalty rates for late corporation tax filings and increasing the limits for venture capital reliefs.
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Trendwatch: Full of life
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2025
The healthcare sector has been busy this past decade. Private equity, corporates, and international investors have all been active – each responding to unique market drivers, regulatory challenges, and evolving public sentiment. Jason Sinclair looks at a resilient M&A sector.
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Roadshow: Pooled knowledge
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2025
  • Jo Russell
Two-and-a-half centuries ago, Liverpool was a driving force behind the industrial revolution; now, it’s at the heart of a new movement. Jo Russell looks at how the city and wider region is spearheading the life sciences and technology revolution.
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Insider dealing: In safe hands
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2025
  • Nicholas Neveling
ICG’s sale of Kee Safety to Inflexion and 65 Equity proves that a high-quality business, polished by successive private equity owners, will always command a good valuation, whatever the market conditions. Nicholas Neveling reports.
Jon Moulton
Comment: Healthy outcomes
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2025
  • Marc Mullen
The Jon Moulton Charity Trust, which applies investment principles to clinical trials funding, has backed nearly 200 pieces of research. Marc Mullen speaks to Moulton and the trust’s technical specialist, Dr Helen Critchley, to get under the skin of the operation.
Meera Shah
Analysis: Uptick UK?
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2025
  • Marc Mullen
There have been positive signs for UK M&A so far this year, but what does the future hold? Marc Mullen gets the views of three Corporate Finance Faculty board members.
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Insight: CDFIs
  • Article
  • 10 Jul 2025
  • Jason Sinclair
Addressing the funding gap for small businesses, often women- or ethnic minority-led, has been a perennial problem as they fail to meet banks’ lending risk profiles. We look at community development finance institutions, an initiative with its roots in 1970s Chicago.
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Insight: valuations
  • Article
  • 10 Jul 2025
  • Vicky Meek
Dealmakers have had to cope with uncertainty for several years, but the constantly changing US tariff levels are creating new levels of unpredictability. How is that flowing into M&A valuations?
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Long read: Mitigating supply chain risk
  • Article
  • 10 Jul 2025
  • David Prosser
Resilience and ESG in supply chains have long been a focus for acquirers, but the US tariffs and Middle East troubles have thrust complex issues into the spotlight. David Prosser looks at how firms are mitigating global supply-chain risk in choppy waters.
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Trendwatch: agriculture
  • Article
  • 06 Jun 2025
  • Jason Sinclair
Agriculture has been thrust into the spotlight with security of food supply and inheritance tax changes fuelling media interest. But what is going on with investment in the sector?
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Debt finance education key to boosting SME uptake
  • Article
  • 20 May 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW’s response to the government’s call for evidence on small business access to finance also highlights concerns about cost, time and red tape as stalling uptake of debt finance.
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Long read: Debt markets
  • Article
  • 09 May 2025
  • David Prosser
The good news for business, and businesses looking to grow through M&A, is that the lending environment has turned the tide and moved back to a borrowers’ market. David Prosser talks to the debt advisers overseeing the shift.
Henry Whorwood is head of research and consultancy at Beauhurst, the data and analytics company with a focus on high growth companies and a member of the Corporate Finance Faculty
Henry Whorwood on early-stage investment
  • Article
  • 10 Mar 2025
  • Henry Whorwood
Early-stage investment is slowing. There may be local headwinds, but are we at the right stage of the cycle for VC exits, asks Beauhurst’s Henry Whorwood.
Jackie Bowie, managing partner and head of European business at Chatham Financial, a member of the Corporate Finance Faculty
Jackie Bowie on interest rates
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
  • Jon Moulton
The outlook is positive for M&A, says Jackie Bowie, but interest rates need to continue on a downward trajectory – and no more shocks please.
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Insight: warranty and indemnity insurance
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW
M&A inherently has risks that investors want to mitigate through a deal process. It’s no surprise that warranty and indemnity insurance uptake is seeing an uptick.
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Trendwatch: utilities and resources M&A
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
  • Jason Sinclair
From water to energy, there’s a perfect storm driving M&A in the utilities and resources sector. Jason Sinclair looks at what’s in the pipeline.
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Long read: women in corporate finance
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2025
  • Marc Mullen
Around the deal table, female representation among corporate financiers has historically been poor. Retaining women and promoting them into senior M&A advisory roles is a long-term mission – and a journey firms are still on.
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Analysis: investment in numbers
  • Article
  • 10 Dec 2024
  • ICAEW
Price multiples are on the rebound, but investment in early-stage businesses slows down.
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Next-day fee finance vs invoice factoring
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • Keys Finance
Keys Finance explain how their Next Day Professional Fee Finance tool can help accountants to receive 100% of their client fees Next-Day.
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ICAEW urges caution on debt rule changes ahead of budget
  • Article
  • 23 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
The Chancellor must make changes to UK debt rules to secure much-needed growth, but risks damaging public finances if she doesn't proceed carefully, the ICAEW has warned.
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