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Your Valuation Community: what’s coming up this year?
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- 27 Feb 2026
- Samuel Edwards
With a strong finish to 2025, here’s what is to look forward to in the year ahead.
Financial Technology Ventures II v ETFS Capital and Tuckwell – part two
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- 26 Feb 2026
- Andrew Strickland
Part two of the Financial Technology Ventures II v ETFS Capital review dives into the valuation of a 9.9% Nasdaq holding, the limits of option model DLOMs and why the court ultimately split the difference between blockage discounts and influence premiums – adding another key precedent to the growing body of equitable value case law.
Financial Technology Ventures II v ETFS Capital and Tuckwell – part one
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- 26 Feb 2026
- Andrew Strickland
The Financial Technology Ventures II v ETFS Capital decision offers a sharp reminder of how DLOC, DLOM and equitable value can radically reshape minority valuations – reviving debates on control premiums and exposing just how far methodologies can pull valuations apart.
IVSC: International Valuation Standards
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- 25 Feb 2026
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- IVSC
Effective 31 January 2028.
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The Economics of the Stock Market, Andrew Smithers, Oxford University Press, 2022
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- 25 Feb 2026
- Paul Sinclair
A book review from Paul Sinclair, highlighting Andrew Smithers’s challenge to orthodox cost of capital thinking. Questioning the usefulness of the equity risk premium and arguing that real equity returns mean revert around a long term constant, Smithers offers a provocative rethink of how markets function, one that valuers may find both unsettling and refreshing.
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Family investment companies as successors to trusts? The value of voting rights
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- 24 Feb 2026
- Andrew Strickland
Family investment companies may be replacing trusts, but dual class share structures leave a difficult question: how much value sits in voting rights with no economics attached? This article tests market evidence, takeover premia and rare case law to illuminate what “control” may really be worth.
Vince and Vince [2024] EWFC 389
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- 24 Feb 2026
- Andrew Strickland
The Vince judgment offers a rare look at how the Family Court grapples with business valuation across cohabitation, marriage and post separation periods. With debates over springboards, passive growth and the fragility of private company valuations, the case shows how even convergent expert evidence can be treated with caution and how a judge’s straight line approach reshaped the division of a £153m green energy business.
Northamber PLC and Genee World Limited, Mr R Singh and others
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- 24 Feb 2026
- Andrew Strickland
Northamber v Genee offers a sharp reminder of how messy the numbers can get when unreliable records, deleted invoices and credibility issues collide. This case note highlights how the court weighed conflicting expert evidence, assessed “unique” accounting practices and ultimately distilled a £1.6m claim down to a £24k loss, an instructive study in forensic valuation under hostile conditions.
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The value of gold
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- 03 Dec 2025
- Paul Sinclair
Gold is back in the headlines, but is it genuinely creating value or just riding a wave of mood and momentum? This article challenges the seductive simplicity of long term return charts, explores why gold defies traditional valuation logic and asks whether today’s record prices reflect fundamentals or collective psychology.
Insight: why accelerated M&A is on the rise
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- 10 Jul 2025
- Nicholas Neveling
Accelerated M&A is emerging as a valuable tool in uncertain markets – helping companies and investors respond to constantly shifting market conditions.
Insider dealing: MHA’s public listing
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- 10 Jul 2025
- Jo Russell
Despite private equity interest and consolidation in its sector, MHA has chosen another path for growth – raising £98m with a public listing on the AIM market.
Insight: valuations
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- 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?
Insight: ESG due diligence
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- 09 Apr 2025
- David Prosser
ESG due diligence has evolved from a tick-box exercise focused on mitigating downside risk into a key lever for value creation that’s at the heart of deal processes.
Insider dealing: Alpine Fire Engineers MBO
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- 10 Feb 2025
- Jason Sinclair
What happens when an MBO hits targets well ahead of schedule? Jason Sinclair speaks to WestBridge about how Alpine Fire Engineers went back to the drawing board and added M&A to its plan.
Long read: women in corporate finance
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- 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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M J Isaac and TSD Tan and Cardiff City Football Club (Holdings) Limited [2022] EWHC 2023
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Andrew Strickland
Not always a beautiful game, part 3.
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The nature of goodwill (part 2)
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Andrew Strickland
The case of CSB 123 Limited and Caroline Stanbury [2021] EWHC 2506.
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The nature of goodwill (part 1)
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Andrew Strickland
The case of CSB 123 Limited and Caroline Stanbury [2021] EWHC 2506.
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Aswath Damodaran – The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications (Portfolio/Penguin) (part 2 of 2)
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- 17 Dec 2024
- Paul Sinclair
Given that the audience for this review comprises of valuers, we should consider what the book covers on valuation over the corporate life cycle?
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Aswath Damodaran – The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications (Portfolio/Penguin) (part 1 of 2)
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- 17 Dec 2024
- Paul Sinclair
The latest book by Aswath Damodaran covers his views on the importance of the corporate life cycle for understanding companies and their valuations. He has a point: we have all seen how the companies comprising the FTSE indices have changed over time. Damodaran has written about valuation across the corporate life cycle before, for example in The Dark Side of Valuation – Valuing Young, Distressed, and Complex Businesses (Pearson Education, Inc., 2018).
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