Category: News
Webcast – The Future of Recruitment
Webcast – The Future of Recruitment As the Recruitment Sector booms following the global pandemic, we examine the evolution of new recruitment delivery models, and how the impact of technology and new approaches to talent engagement / culture are driving growth and profitability. We also look at the current M&A landscape and how businesses across…
finnCap Tech Chat | Back to skool
finnCap Tech Chat | Back to skool As the start of school and university rolls around after an already autumnal summer, we’ve had several conversations that have reminded us of textbooks and corporate finance lectures, on how to think about debt and public tech valuations. The theory would be that a certain level of debt…
Ambition Delivered Full Year Results 2021
Ambition Delivered Full Year Results 2021 Sam Smith, CEO, finnCap Group “Our results are a testament to the great team we have built over many years, and to our dynamic, collegiate and smart-thinking culture in delivering our clients’ ambitions in an extraordinarily complex environment. Our stronger results allowed us to accelerate our strategy of expanding…
The Private Equity Review
The Private Equity Review Encouragingly, there’s been a fair wind of Private Equity deal making over the last 12 months. The pandemic caused a surge in PE takeovers of UK firms while capital was deployed into great businesses that flourished through hard times – valuations reached their highest level since the 2008 crash. Meanwhile, the…
Is your management team hindering your true valuation potential?
Is your management team hindering your true valuation potential? Leadership is one of the most overlooked factors in creating value. Whilst it is widely recognised that there is a premium associated with effective leadership, this is rarely considered in quantifiable terms. In fact, leadership itself is proven to have a 10 to 15% impact on…
Private Equity gaining confidence in public markets
Private Equity gaining confidence in public markets Private equity firms increasingly recognise the viability of IPOs as an exit strategy. Previously dissuaded by the rigorous reporting structures associated with floating, many fund managers have recently found the opportunities available on public markets sufficiently attractive to offset these misgivings. Leading the post-pandemic resurgence of IPOs, London…
Sector Update | Training & Ed-Tech – Are we all Ed-Tech now?
Categories: NewsSector Update | Training & Ed-Tech – Are we all Ed-Tech now? Training has been an attractive sub-sector of the broader Human Capital Management (HCM) space for investors for some time. Training deal volume and valuations have been high in recent years but still only a fraction of their illustrious cousins in Ed-Tech. However, in…
Legaltech – The accessory to M&A in Law
Legaltech – The accessory to M&A in Law Certainly, investment in the sector has been accelerating; in 2016, it weighed in at just $225m (£175m) but by last year that figure had risen to $2.1bn (£1.56bn) globally, with the UK contributing $348m (£260m) to legaltech in the first half of 2019 alone. The growing array…
What does 2021 hold for Private Equity?
What does 2021 hold for Private Equity? 2020 brought about an unprecedented drought in M&A deal flow, but the private equity industry recovered quickly and is now well positioned to help businesses and sectors get back on their feet. However, the pandemic has dramatically shifted the landscape. Before we look ahead to 2021, it is…
Report: M&A Update | Recruitment
Categories: NewsReport: M&A Update | Recruitment We share here our latest report into the Human Capital Sector, M&A Update | Recruitment. Mark Kingston, Director of Human Capital M&A at Cavendish discussed these findings in a recent podcast (listen to the podcast here). We are now delighted to be able to share this report in full, which looks…
