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Surprise news from Davos - UK is investment hot spot

And could TDR deal be CorpAcq's greatest day?

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Michael Taylor
Jan 21, 2025
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Hello Rainmakers,

Two pieces of seemingly unrelated news this week look like being the drivers of the UK M&A market this year. Debt fuelled private equity player TDR buying CorpAcq, and the PwC survey placing UK in second spot for global investment.

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Marco Amitrano speaking to Sky News at Davos

While the world’s attention was focused on the fallout from the Trump inauguration, in the Swiss resort of Davos a piece of surprising economic news was doing the rounds.

In the fringes of the World Economic Forum, PwC slipped out the results of a survey of 4,701 CEOs across 109 countries and territories from 1st October through 8th November 2024.

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