Rainmakers Forum – ready for the upturn – coping with Mad October
The North West’s corporate finance community joined us at Squire Patton Boggs‘ offices this afternoon (Tuesday 8 October) for our latest Rainmakers Seminar, which explored the challenge of becoming deal-ready for 2025.
Catriona, Nicky and Michael
Chaired by TheBusinessDesk.com‘s North West editor Michael Taylor, we started by hearing insights and contributions from the winners of 2024’s Rainmaker Awards – Nicola Merritt and Catriona Lang.
The panel was then joined by Matthew Hodgson of Claritas Tax and Giles Chesher to further discuss where the deals are going to come from in the year ahead, with a special focus on likely tax changes and strategies from Matt ahead of the UK Budget in late October.
Catriona Lang said: “It was a genuine honour to be asked to speak at this event in front of an audience of my respected peers in the M&A community. A big thank you to Michael Taylor and the Business Desk team, both for asking me and for putting on a great event as always.”
Matt Hodgson said: “Thank you Michael Taylor and TheBusinessDesk.com for inviting me and apologies I couldn’t bring a brighter message right now in terms of what’s coming in the Budget. Whatever happens, there will still be deals to be done!”
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a packed event and thanks to our sponsors Claritas Tax & Squire Patton Boggs and event partner Campaigner.
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