May 2010 - Politicising Business
A hung parliament has been a serious possibility ever since the 2010 UK election campaigns began in earnest. The strength of the Liberal Democrat party has increased on the back of...

March 2010 - Europe in Crisis
The repercussions of the economic downturn continue to ripple out across the globe with the peculiar conditions brought about by the shock exposing more and more corruption...

February 2010 - War on Corruption: Decline of the Dirty Dollar
Like other utopian enterprises, the increasing aspiration of developed nations to eradicate the evils implicit in the corruption...

January 2010 - Advancing Arbitration in Russia
Russia continues, though with many difficulties, to emerge as a major economic global force as it builds its influence beyond the traditional fields of oil and gas and gradually develops...

December 2009 - Corporate Responsibility
Reverberations of the Copenhagen summit outcome will not only be felt by humanity and the planet, but also by the business community at large...

November 2009 - Europe in isolation
The economic downturn has led to a fundamental change in the way the European Union views the world’s financial markets. For 20 years, between 1985 and 2005...

October 2009 - EureseaU: An International Network of Lawyers
EureseaU was formed on the 11th of May 1990. The reasoning behind the formation of the network was to establish a...

September 2009 - Green Dragon Gas: China’s green energy leader
The recent joint venture between US integrated energy company ConocoPhillips and Chinese vertically integrated gas...

August 2009 - Deferred finance
The continuing economic downturn has heightened and focused the minds of deal makers right across the world with regard to finding new capital structures that also bring the most...

July 2009 - Recycling the Digital with GEARRS
It is an expectation of modern society that things Get smaller. Miniaturisation occurs all around us But nowhere is it more apparent than in electronics...

June 2009 - Pinning down private equity
The global private equity industry has experienced a difficult year to date as a severe restriction in debt funding has made new deals difficult to get off the ground while agitated debt lenders...

May 2009 - Expand your horizons
One of the features of a recession is the contraction of markets. For businesses this will inevitably mean a reduction in revenues as their share of that market is worth less...

April 2009 - An Interim Solution
Interim management is a growing phenomenon and one that is set to become more and more familiar to corporate decision makers across the UK and beyond...

March 2009 - Raising the corporate consciousness to the threat of fraud
The global economy has been rocked by some large scale corporate frauds recently that have hit the headlines across the world. Cases like Madoff, Stamford Bank and Satyam Computers have all been going on for some time...

February 2009 - The end of AIM as we know it?
AIM, London Stock Exchange’s market for growth companies, has stalled dramatically following a record boom in IPOs between 2002 and 2007. The popularity of the exchange saw the number of firms listed reach 1,700 in January 2008...

January 2009 - Bucking Global Trends – How Poland is resisting the crunch
The current economic crisis has affected the world’s markets in a number of different ways. Some countries are struggling to...

December 2008 - Early 2008 – The Gathering Storm
UK corporate finance market has been through one of its toughest year’s on record. Record deal activity throughout 2006 and early 2007 gave way to uncertainty...

November 2008 - Venture Finance – Asset based lending solutions
The recent economic crisis has changed the nature of finance as we know it and the days of big leveraged buyouts and...

October 2008 - Tenon Recovery – Guidance through the credit crunch storm
The economic situation in the UK is likely to get worse before it gets better. A lack of liquidity in the capital markets...

September 2008 - Investment still in Russia's sights
Russia is positive about direct investment from the West despite a worsening of political relations following the Georgia crisis. Temperatures are plummeting once again in the...

August 2008 - Unanswered Questions: Understanding the Legal Services Act
The Legal services Act is set to reform the way legal services in England and Wales are regulated and puts consumer interest...

July 2008 - Shari’a Law: A Comfortable Fit?
With the debate continuing over whether Islamic legal principles can be applied by courts to resolve certain cases, Corporate INTL takes an overview of how Shari’a sits...

June 2008 - Landsbanki: the future of flexible finance
Landsbanki’s move into the asset based lending (ABL) arena in late 2005 has proved more than fruitful as Landsbanki Commercial Finance has evolved to become one of the leading....

May 2008 - Bank of England: softening the fall?
This month’s reluctance from the Bank of England to chop interest rates further has crystallised the twofold nature of its predicament. Recent efforts to unlock liquidity have led to a...

April 2008 - New players in International M&A
With the credit crunch comes a new chapter in M&A history. As we enter the second quarter of 2008, it is clear that the cards are being reshuffled and a new set of players is coming to the table...

March 2008 - Expanding horizons: King Sturge acquires Bache Treharne LLP
In February, International Property Consultancy King Sturge announced that it had acquired surveying firm...

February 2008 - New faces, new horizons
For London law firm Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, 2007 has been a year characterised by team expansion and a changing client profile. With big things planned for 2008...

January 2008 - Green and growing: AIM embraces cleantech
Once exclusively the preserve of dedicated environmentalists, low carbon technology has crossed over from the fringes to...

December 2007 - Twinned for success in 2007:
When CB Equity Partners was launched in 2004, few could have predicted that, by the end of 2007, the investment advisory firm would have advised on around...

November 2007 - Can the UK mid-market weather the credit storm?
The final quarter of 2007 is likely to be remembered for many years as a period of great uncertainty. The run on Northern Rock...

October 2007 - Tenon Recovery
After over a year of solid organic growth, Tenon Recovery’s national operation was augmented further recently with the announcement of three acquisitions in the UK...

September 2007 - Rising to the challenge
Ask any business owner to name five things they lose sleep over and employment issues in one form or another will feature in every list. Whether legal action by an employee or securing key staff...

August 2007 - Barbarians at the gate?
Much of the attention focused on the private equity industry of late would certainly suggest that it is largely misunderstood by journalists, politicians and union leaders alike...

July 2007 - Challenging the Big Four?
According to Michael Cleary, CEO of the newly merged business, the merger creates a firm with the depth of resource, expert capability and market credibility to make it the leader...

June 2007 - Fighting management's corner
The established route to an MBI under-serves the senior executives that make the process possible. With an already successful UK offering that is now ready...

April 2007 - Landsbanki Commercial Finance
Asset based lending is on the rise in the UK. Figures recently released by the FDA show a growth rate of nearly 10% in the 12 months from December 2005 to December 2006...

March 2007 - The changing face of asset based lending
Pitching a bank with a business idea that exists only on paper is never an easy job. However, when asking that bank not only to fund the venture...

February 2007 - Deal Maestro, Deferred Finance
In 1998 the concept of deferred finance was born, the brain child of Stephen Greenwood, now Chief Executive of Deferred Finance Limited...

December 2006 - End of year review
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...

November 2006 - Begbies Traynor
2006 has been a busy year for AIM listed corporate rescue specialists Begbies Traynor Group plc. Following a string of acquisitions...

October 2006 - Venture Forth
Consolidation in the invoice finance sector has been expected for some time now. As the industry becomes more competitive, with new independents entering all the time...

September 2006 - Finance Wales
The last three years have seen some dynamic developments in Welsh business. At the helm of many of those developments has been Finance Wales...

August 2006 - Clark Holt, Carving a niche
The rise of the boutique legal and financial adviser has been one of the defining features of the UK corporate landscape over the past decade...

July 2006 - Landsbanki Commercial Finance
Last year when Brent Osborne and his fellow joint managing directors Alan McLaren and David Morris began working on the launch of a new product...

June 2006 - Strategic Corporate Finance
The rise of the regional adviser has been one of the defining success stories of the UK corporate landscape over the past decade...

April 2006 - Exciting times
Some investors get frustrated with a listed company's lack of activity on AIM. Those who have invested in Bartercard plc will have no such worries...

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