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Hello and welcome to another packed issue of Acquisition International. This month, new research by EY shows that the mid-market is picking up once again, with deal flows returning to 2006 levels as a growing number of companies plan to do deals over the next

Hello, we’re back again with a brand new and jam-packed issue of Acquisition International. As we go to print, it has been announced that global insurance premiums reached a record US$4.9tn in 2013. A new study, by Aon Benfield, highlights that the record pr

Hello, and welcome to another issue of Acquisition International. In a recent survey, KPMG said it foresees increased mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry in the coming year. The audit, tax and advisory services firm reported, in its 2014 Insuran

Welcome to another issue of Acquisition International. As we were going to print, news broke that the euro area attracted more foreign investment last year than in the year before. A new report by the European Central Bank (ECB) finds that, in an environment o

Following hot on the heels of our recent M&A Awards, new statistics have been released sending a clear message: M&A is back with a vengeance. The report, by global valuation specialists American Appraisal, shows that dealmakers are set to pay 23% more for comp

As we were preparing to go to print this month, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) released some rather interesting comments on the Bank of England’s latest inflation report. According to CBI Director General, John Cridland, the report provides posi

You might have noticed that this month’s issue of Acquisition International is slightly weightier than usual. This is because we’ve also published our first ever Maximising M&A Success supplement. When it comes to buying or selling a business a huge number

It has been reported this month that IPOs raised close to €13 billion in equity last year, matching the 10-year average in Europe in terms of both the number of deals and their total value. This increased market activity is due to buoyant equity markets maki

In January we saw the return and domination by large merger and acquisition (M&A) deals, as the volume of announced worldwide M&A transactions during the first month of the year exceeded $355 billion. According to data from the S&P Capital IQ database, this ro