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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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Roadshow: Blue skies ahead
  • Article
  • 02 Mar 2026
  • Nicholas Neveling
Almost two decades on from the global financial crisis, Scotland’s big energy deals have signalled a return to form. With a strong pipeline of start-ups and high-quality mid-market businesses lined up for investment, it’s later-stage capital that is in high demand. By Nicholas Neveling.
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Insider dealing: Enthused for Enfuse
  • Article
  • 02 Mar 2026
  • Nicholas Neveling
Amid tariff changes, reversals of changes, and stockmarket wobbles, Enfuse Group remained a standout investment target for Agathos. Nicholas Neveling reports.
Analysis: On the horizon
  • Article
  • 02 Mar 2026
  • ICAEW
The outlook for UK deals in infographics
Faculty news: February 2026
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • ICAEW
The latest from ICAEW’s centre of professional expertise in corporate finance.
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Roadshow: Valley of the deals
  • Article
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • Jason Sinclair
Outside London, the Thames Valley is one of the busiest deal regions in the country. Jason Sinclair finds out what keeps it buzzing.
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Effecting causes
  • Article
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • Jo Russell
Growth in impact investing is outstripping all other forms of investment. Jo Russell reports on a strategy that balances profits and values.
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Fail to plan, plan to fail
  • Article
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • Nigel Watson, Francis Moore
Management incentive plans (MIPs) can be modelled to three decimal places, and breeze through HMRC approval, but if CFOs don’t trust them and the management team don’t believe in them, they’re doomed from the start. Burges Salmon partner Nigel Watson and Francis Moore of Wyvern Partners, explain how to plan to succeed.
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Trendwatch: Back to schools
  • Article
  • 05 Dec 2025
From nursery buy-and-builds to private school consolidation and university mergers, each education sub-sector is responding to its own specific challenges. Jason Sinclair looks at what’s driving activity in this busy UK market.
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Analysis: Shifting out of first?
  • Article
  • 05 Dec 2025
The UK sits in pole position for VC investment and global M&A is up in value, if not in volume, with dry powder reserves plentiful. Is the race to invest hotting up?
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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.
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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.
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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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