Legal expert Melanie Wadsworth uses the example of one of the UK’s oldest construction companies to examine what family businesses should consider if looking to float and how it is possible to maintain unique family business characteristics whilst still answering to shareholders.
By Emma Ladd
Specialist in corporate and commercial law, Emma Ladd, senior associate at Gardner Leader solicitors, discusses why it’s never too early to plan your exit strategy and steps to preparing your business for sale.
Having seen the UK tech sector’s paced growth for almost a decade, George Mathew, president and COO of Alteryx, warns that Britain may be in danger of too closely following America’s lead, creating “sub-prime unicorns”.
Richard Windsor of Edison Investment Research explains why so-called unicorns that can’t make money are in fact donkeys with little value.
Ross Williams, founder and CEO of online dating company Venntro Media Group, explains what’s next for online dating businesses as the sector reaches maturity as Tinder parent Match Group plans an IPO.
French company Ingenico Group lined up additional banking support to pave the way for a £6.6bn all-cash takeover of British rival Worldpay – which the payment services firm has shelved to press ahead with a stock market flotation.
Having shunned repeated approaches from Facebook to acquire it, and reportedly recently been under the microscope of Alibaba as a potential purchase, multimedia messaging platform Snapchat has unveiled maiden in-app purchases as it looks to build revenues.
By David Craik
It said that the board and shareholders of Jack Wills had decided not to pursue an IPO after “a detailed review of growth opportunities”, and that current boss Wendy Becker had decided to step down as a result.
When business schools students study the evolution of equity crowdfunding in our country, they will see that the last week of July 2015 was a watershed.
By James Lyons
With AIM now more than two decades old, Ashfords partner James Lyons analyses how much of a success it has been as a junior market, and just what goes into becoming a public company these days.
