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Corporate Financier

Analysis and insight from the Corporate Finance Faculty

October 2023

This month the Corporate Finance Faculty launches its guideline to earn-outs. We look at how they help get deals over the line; M&A in the mining sector; and corporate finance in Oxford. We also speak to BDO’s head of M&A Gurpal Ahluwalia about his new role and his previous life as a surgeon.

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Crafting earn-out clauses

Putting a deal together in the current challenging economic and financing climate needs all the help it can get. David Prosser looks at how crafted earn-out clauses are increasingly being used to get deals to completion.
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News and views

Faculty news
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October 2023

The announcement of this year’s speaker at the Annual Reception, the faculty’s new-look board and the FRC’s consultation on revisions to its Ethical Standard.

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opinion
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Jon Moulton on continuing professional development

It’s the quality of professional development rather than quantity per se that will maintain or improve standards, says Jon Moulton.

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Connections

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Corporate finance advisory

Promotions and those on the move in corporate finance advisory.

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Legal advisory

Who’s on the move or been promoted in legal advisory.

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Private equity

Recruitment and promotions in private equity.

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Global investment and M&A

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Trendwatch: M&A in mining

Mining is one of the few sectors on target to show an M&A uptick this year. Looking below the surface of the figures, the energy transition megatrend is driving investment funded by increased commodity prices. Marc Mullen reports.
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Innovation and sustainable recovery

Roadshow: Oxford

No longer a closed shop for the alumni of its university, the world-renowned city of Oxford now delivers innovation in abundance and attracts investors from the UK and beyond. Jason Sinclair reports.
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Insider dealing: Quantexa hits unicorn status

In one of the toughest funding round markets in years, AlbionVC portfolio company Quantexa achieved unicorn status in April. Nicholas Neveling says this proves that tech firms with great prospects are still being backed to grow.
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Future advisory professionals

Insight
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Continuing professional development

ICAEW’s approach to the recording of continuing professional development is being rebooted in November. Jason Sinclair speaks to firms about how giving more structure to CPD can improve standards.

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Profile
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Gurpal Ahluwalia, BDO’s UK head of M&A

The path from operating theatre to the M&A negotiating table is not well trodden. Marc Mullen speaks to Gurpal Ahluwalia, BDO’s UK head of M&A, about bringing diversity of thinking to the firm’s advisory offering.

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On my CV
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A door opens

Nothing was ever fully off the table, says Mazars M&A director Fred Dearden of the Forza Doors co-founders’ sale to Novastone Capital Advisors.

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Career paths
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Straight to work

Qualified as an ACA and moving into transaction services by the age of 23, Darra McCarthy-Paul, an assistant manager at Quantuma, tells Jo Russell about setting off on her career path early.

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The archives

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