Eight years since Brexit, why selling a business to international trade stacks up

Against the odds, innovation is fuelling cross-border deals

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Interesting thought provoking piece from Sam Metcalf today. The negative effects of Brexit have been legion, yet overseas M&A activity has stacked up.

It will definitely be worth returning to.

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Inside the innovation factory

BY SAM METCALF

The famous mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said: "Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them? Step forward, then, the corporate finance community.

Remarkably, it's now over eight years since that long, dark night of the soul that was the Brexit vote. Being cast adrift from the EU marketplace has been death by a thousand cuts for some businesses, which have gone to the wall.

However, a quiet revolution has taken place; the cross-border deal - often the gold riband event for rainmakers - is back with a vengeance, and it's thrown up two of the most interesting deals in the heartlands of England for some time just recently.