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Oct 6

Acquisition integration challenges: navigating the complexities and addressing the key cultural and human capital challenges

“Value Creation” remains a key mantra for businesses in the current climate, more simply “Buy, Transform, Build, Sell” for Private Equity or “Invest, Nurture, Exit” for Venture Capital. Acquisitions also remain a common strategy for businesses seeking to expand their market share and consumer base, diversify their portfolio, or access new capabilities and technologies. — After years of cheap money, there are now increased fundraising headwinds in getting the deal done. Additionally, several emerging themes such as ESG, Data Analytics and AI, and the focus on crowded middle-market deals, are reshaping the Private Equity landscape. This underscores the importance of ensuring that acquisitions create value…

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Acquisition integration challenges: navigating the complexities and addressing the key cultural and…

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Aug 30

Cordovan Capital Management: Bridging the gap between private equity and UK SMEs

Cordovan Capital Management’s mission is to bridge the supply-demand gap between UK small businesses and private equity capital. We see firsthand, and daily, the social and economic benefits this mission brings to bear: private equity investment that stimulates innovation, spurs growth, effects the orderly ownership transition of profitable enterprises, and promotes good governance. With cause and effect intertwined, the net result is typically the creation, expansion, and/or safeguarding of good profit and good jobs.

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Cordovan Capital Management: Bridging the gap between private equity and UK SMEs

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Aug 30

ESG in VC: A Deep Dive

In a special Deep Dive, BVCA Head of Sustainability, Harriet Assem, and Policy Executive, Neave Lloyd, sat down with Ben Robson (Molten Ventures) and Victoria Ferguson (MMC Ventures) from our Responsible Investment Advisory Group to discuss ESG in venture capital. — Why is ESG important to VC? Ben Robson (BR) — “Within VC, there are a range of motives. The main drivers being the genuine desire to build better, sustainable, and more valuable businesses, as well as the mounting pressure from LPs around ESG-related investment selection and ongoing reporting, so it is a bit of is a…

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Apr 14

Yorkshire — A region ripe for M&A activity

The challenges facing businesses today are well documented, yet despite ongoing economic and geopolitical uncertainties, Yorkshire’s M&A market remains robust and there have been several high-profile deals in the region this year already which have received national attention. — It’s clear that uncertain times can create real opportunities and this, combined with the creativity and determination to succeed that many Yorkshire business leaders are known for, is continuing to drive growth and fuel M&A activity.

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Yorkshire — A region ripe for M&A activity

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Apr 10

Charlie Troup — Reflections on my year as BVCA chair

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. I was reminded of those words while looking back at my year as BVCA chair and considering how some significant events impacted on my plan for the key priorities that would shape my year. — We saw unprecedented upheavals in the political landscape. That has resulted in some changes in the stakeholders we are dealing with and a refocusing of our engagement with them. …

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Charlie Troup — Reflections on my year as BVCA chair

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Apr 7

Garry Wilson looks ahead at his year as BVCA Chair

As the BVCA starts to celebrate 40 years representing our industry I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of Chair. Over the next year I will be entirely focused on telling our amazing story to everyone our industry touches — politicians, regulators, journalists, the business community and indeed the general public. If we all do that successfully then there are long-term benefits for us all and we can protect Britain’s status as the best place for venture capital and private equity on this side of the Atlantic.

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Garry Wilson looks ahead at his year as BVCA Chair

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Apr 6

Allowing fintech to flourish — lessons from the Kalifa Review

Fintech is one of the great UK success stories of recent times and it remains the sector responsible for the majority of the country’s “unicorns”. The number of deals in this sector may have dropped in 2022, but the latest data from Beauhurst shows that it is still the most popular sector for UK VCs. — Despite the trials of some of the big name fintech companies that have listed in recent years, overall the sector is looking to continue to grow and diversify, and the latest Small Business Finance Market Report from the British Business Bank shows that lending to SMEs from challenger banks overtook…

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Allowing fintech to flourish — lessons from the Kalifa Review

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Apr 6

The UK DARPA — the Advanced Research and Invention Agency officially established

This week the Government published the long-awaited Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). After a week of more grim economic forecasts and the downfall of Tech Nation, this is positive news. — Plans for ARIA were first announced almost two years ago and last year Dr Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford MBE were appointed as CEO and Chair. …

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The UK DARPA — the Advanced Research and Invention Agency officially established

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Apr 6

Back to the Future: Infrastructure, Private Debt and Secondaries explored at the Alternative Fund Strategies Conference

Drone superhighways in the sky and digital infrastructure in space disrupting industries on earth. It’s safe to say Mark Boggett, CEO of Seraphim, had the audience spellbound when he spoke at the Infrastructure conference, one of three streams at the BVCA Alternative Fund Strategies Conference on 28 March. — In a session called ‘Infratech: the future of smart infrastructure’, he drew a picture of a whole new world of possibilities, describing an army of smaller, lighter, cheaper satellites enabling ‘a data communication tsunami’ impacting everything from smart cities to climate change.

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Back to the Future: Infrastructure, Private Debt and Secondaries explored at the Alternative Fund…

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Apr 6

Private markets pivot

Suzi Gillespie, BVCA Head of Research, looks at the changes in economic conditions seen in 2022, how this is impacting private markets, what this means for BVCA members and how they are responding to the challenges ahead. — “Navigating a shifting tide”; “Private markets turn down the volume”. These are the headlines of this year’s annual market review reports from Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company respectively.

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