We are all familiar with press releases announcing M&A deals, however these PRs rarely reveal the intricacies of the transaction; neither do they consider the main parties’ motivations. In our new Exit Insight series, we examine in more detail what lies behind a technology M&A deal.
Soon-to-be-married Acuity partner Andy Lister is impressed by how many eligible WedTech businesses there are, surprises his fiancée by asking a machine to marry him, and secretly wishes he could have a virtual stag do…
The Acuity team evaluate the possibilities in technology this year…
In the first of this two-part series, Acuity’s Matthew Byatt examines the importance of China in European technology M&A and discusses some of the common pitfalls…
Andy Lister, Partner at Acuity Advisors, has a view on Samsung’s $8bn acquisition of HARMAN, announced this week.
Marcus Allchurch, Partner at Acuity Advisors, is keeping a close and insightful eye on the global rollouts of gigabit connectivity networks.
Five years have passed since Tim Cook became CEO of Apple and in that time it has become the world’s largest company by market value, with net income last year of US$53bn.
As this year’s well-anticipated John Lewis Christmas advert makes its way onto our screens, their Managing Director must be wondering what Christmas has in store for the retailing giant.
Acuity’s Richard Baker ruminates on Twitter’s place in the digital media boom, and what this could mean for the UK’s tech scene.
Japanese internet and telecommunications conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp took the global chip industry by surprise recently with a $32 billion deal to acquire ARM Holdings PLC, the UK-based designer of microprocessors that power more than 95% of the world’s smartphones.
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