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 UK 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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