4/7/2025 2:18:31 PM Spring Budget 2025: What this means for the retail sector By Tony Sturge Steve Baluchi Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Spring Budget introduced a series of measures that are set to impact the retail landscape, some more...
4/3/2025 12:24:34 PM Enforcing security over shares: Why this serves as a powerful tool for lenders By Patrick Donnan Tom Rees When lenders provide financing, a key element of any lending decision will be the availability and quality of any security provided, with...
11/28/2024 3:10:16 PM Motor Finance (Part II) – What’s the impact on consumers? By Daniel Conway In my previous piece, I explored the uncertainty facing the motor finance industry, particularly the impact on regulated firms – lenders,...
11/25/2024 2:40:45 PM Motor Finance – preparing for uncertainty By Daniel Conway Much has been written in recent weeks about the motor finance industry. The resounding theme that I’ve taken away from reading insight...
11/18/2024 10:46:59 AM We Reap What We Sow By Luke Wilson There are always triumphs and setbacks in life and business, but will the post-budget world amount to anything more than the cyclical,...
10/17/2024 10:35:37 AM Stuck between a rock and a hard place: Rising wages and narrowing margins – what’s next for SMEs? By Luke Wilson Last week, The Times published an article citing a study of 90,000 UK SMEs, showing an average wage increase of 8.2% in the year to...
10/2/2024 12:43:41 PM “Pharmacies closing, rising costs, shortages putting lives at risk…” By Ian Corfield Justin Matthews It will have been worrying to the consumer to see such headlines, yet from our recent experience these are real issues that the retail...
9/12/2024 1:51:52 PM The lighthouse to avoid the rocks... A look ahead By Luke Wilson As ever, ‘back to school’ and the shift into Autumn provides an opportunity to reflect on the state of play in the UK economy. For the...
8/13/2024 4:20:36 PM Building Futures: What’s next for UK infrastructure? By Simon Baggs Olivia Perkins, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure’s Managing Director, sits down with our Restructuring Advisory Director, Simon Baggs, to...
5/8/2024 11:07:42 AM Exploring Energy from Waste (EfW) Facilities: Benefits, Challenges and Financial Distress By Simon Baggs I have dealt with the insolvencies of Biomass/EfW facilities and I find that although technologically impressive they are fraught with a...
4/29/2024 3:58:55 PM Resilience to recovery: The future of UK construction By Justin Matthews Construction is a vital sector to sustain the UK’s economic growth. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, there were approximately 2.12...
1/16/2024 10:28:54 AM From boom to bust? By Patrick Donnan A very interesting article in the FT today with some useful analysis in respect of the online vs. high street debate in the retail space....
10/13/2023 8:24:10 AM Financial Difficulties in the Renewable Energy Sector By Simon Baggs While the global consensus on the importance of transitioning to renewable energy sources grows, financial hurdles remain a significant...
9/29/2023 8:05:50 AM It might be an uphill battle...but its progress. By Luke Wilson From my experience every battle in business or life always has two sides, the one which is glaringly obvious, the fight itself - the...
8/8/2023 10:08:55 AM Building for growth, whilst on the precipice of collapse - the Marshalls case. By Luke Wilson Sustained high levels of inflation, increasing interest rates and weak consumer confidence makes for a difficult landscape to navigate...
7/18/2023 12:27:30 PM A fork in the road: The future of UK fintech By Daniel Conway Whilst AI is leading the agenda when it comes to the future of technology, fintech still remains the ace in the pack for investors. In...