A free weekly briefing on UK private company deals, read through a valuation lens. For owners, finance directors, accountants and buyers of businesses with £1m–£50m turnover.
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Drawn from stock exchange announcements, Companies House filings, company and adviser press releases and the regional business press. Every figure is checked against its source, and multiples we calculate are labelled as ours.
The headline deal and trend, for when you have thirty seconds.
Deal count, disclosed prices, who was buying and what moved value, including tax and interest rates.
Price, multiple and structure for the deals that matter, and why each one matters to owners.
A table of the rest: date, buyer, target, sector, region and value where disclosed.
Rate decisions, rule changes and deals in the pipeline for the weeks ahead.
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DealGuide UK is written by a Chartered Accountant and M&A adviser with hands-on experience of UK private company transactions.
Most deal coverage follows large listed companies. DealGuide UK covers the private company deals that owners and their advisers actually measure themselves against, and explains what they mean for value in plain English.
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