By James Local, director, Livingstone Partners – A market in a growth phase, with numerous high-performing businesses run by hungry entrepreneurs who are receptive to the idea of taking investment, and a good history of secondary buy-outs and trade exits. What’s not to like about the recruitment industry? The recruitment

Investors remain bullish about private equity with average annual return expectations – net of fees, expenses and carried interest – of 11.7 per cent IRR and 1.6x multiple of cost (MoC) for managers that begin investing today. That’s according to a survey by fundraising and secondaries advisory firm Rede, which

In a further sign of economic optimism, well over half (58 per cent) of UK small to medium-sized firms (SMEs) plan to enter new markets in the next two years with the manufacturing sector leading the way, according to a new study by Albion Ventures. Evidence of an export-led recovery

The latest research from Preqin finds that management fees among infrastructure funds of more recent vintages are lower than for previous vintage years. While 2012 and 2013 vintage funds have a median investment period management fee of 2.00 per cent, funds currently in market, or with a 2015 vintage, have

Research from international law firm Nabarro reveals the UK remains top of the Nabarro Infrastructure Index as the most attractive country for infrastructure investment. The top five countries in the Index are rounded out by Canada, the US, Australia and UAE in second, third, fourth and fifth places respectively. The

Stronger regulatory enforcement, tighter internal governance, and the increased risks to the transaction has led to the number of leaked M&A deals in 2014 falling to its lowest level in six years, according to Intralinks. The fall in the percentage of deals involving a leak prior to the announcement of

A new report from Goldman Sachs, produced in partnership with the British Business Bank and the Enterprise Research Centre with support from Scale-Ip Institute and Said Business School, details the critical role UK SMEs can play in addressing the UK’s ‘productivity gap’, a deficit identified in the UK Government’s Productivity Plan

Ahead of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting on 18 and 19 November, Asia Pacific CEOs have expressed a number of concerns and believe prospects for business growth over the next 12 months are dimming fast. That’s according to PwC’s fifth annual APEC CEO Survey, which reveals that