TheBusinessDesk.com to launch corporate finance news platform today

TheBusinessDesk.com is to launch RAINMAKERS, a dedicated platform of insights, commentary and analysis of M&A and fundraising activity across the North.

From March 11 2024 we will include exclusive interviews with leading figures in corporate finance, as well as more of the incisive high-quality investigative journalism we have been developing on TheBusinessDesk.com over the last year.

Already we’ve included on rainmakers.thebusinessdesk.com some examples of pieces first published on TheBusinessDesk.com as an example of the quality news and analysis that will be exclusive to our Rainmakers newsletter.

We’re also going to be bringing you:

• Interviews with key decision makers who have wisdom and insight
• Access to business leaders who trust us with how they approached key strategic moments in their careers
• Insights from sources who trust us with the inside track on deals 

For a small monthly fee of £10 per month or annual subscription, we will provide access to journalism worth paying for.

Sign up now ahead of the March 11 launch and get the first two weeks free.

We have built RAINMAKERS on the well-established Substack platform, making the content easily and quickly available in an unfussy and elegant interface.

We have also been supported commercially by Grant Thornton.

Dan Rosinke, national head of transaction advisory at Grant Thornton, said: “We are supporting the launch of Rainmakers across the regions. Despite the challenging market conditions, we saw some outstanding deals across the region in 2023 and an increase in the number of processes in play in the second half of the year. This, coupled with pent up supply and demand for deals and private equity with capital to deploy, is setting the scene for a more buoyant M&A landscape in 2024.”

Sign up now ahead of the March 11 launch and get the first two weeks free.

The launch of the Rainmakers platform in March comes just before our first Rainmakers Conference to be held at The Point conferencing facilities at the Emirates Old Trafford on March 20, 2024.

Tickets for the event can be purchased here.

The conference is being organised by TheBusinessDesk.com and the partners in this event believe passionately that the jobs created, specialisms developed, and the entrepreneurs unleashed give the Rainmakers community the right to a seat at the table and a voice in the debate on the economy of the North.

The conference will be an opportunity to not only celebrate the contribution from funds raised and deals created, but also to look to the future at the challenges ahead.