This week on the Rainmakers platform
Our lively new Rainmakers platform continues to look under the bonnet on some of the key deals and trends in the Northern mergers and acquisitions market.
Last week, we took a closer look at some of the trends in the ever changing corporate finance advisory market.
We ran a big piece on the trend for carve outs.
We’re fascinated by Employee Owned Trusts and would love to talk to anyone who has been through the process and has a tale to tell.
The factor we keep hearing is that as an instrument they should be done for the right reasons and not just for the tax advantages of the vendor.
The latest to complete an EOT backed deal is BullsEye Superfactors, a family-owned car parts and accessories retailer and motor factor.
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Here’s now this is going to work going forward.
There will be a longish read piece on Tuesday and Thursday, for subscribers only.
Typically, one will focus on happenings going on in the advisory and funding market – what it means and where things are going.
The other will look at deals from a market perspective. How much was paid? what the vendor wants, who the management team are, an interview with a CEO on the buy or sell side.
On Friday, free to everyone who signs up, we’ll pull out a few of the completed deals from that week and look under the hood a bit more. We might even have an educated guess at some of the prices paid on all of the “undisclosed” prices on deals we get to hear about.
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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.”
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