Moore Kingston Smith is delighted to announce that Jeremy Horner will be joining the company as its first non-executive director.

At a time when the only certainty was uncertainty itself, fintech investments stood out as beacons of resilience in 2020. Read more in Moore Kingston Smith's review of H2 2020 growth capital investment in the fintech sector.

Is Growth Capital bouncing back after a difficult start to 2020? Research conducted by Moore Kingston Smith is indicating an optimistic outlook for the Growth Capital market in 2021.

Mental health and wellbeing has never been so important than in today’s working environment. Whether your teams have been working remotely since last March, or have been attending socially distanced and vastly changed workplaces, the challenges are great and varied.

The Q3 figures for the overall growth capital market illustrated a 28% quarter-on-quarter increase in the number of deals completing and a 26% increase in the amount of growth capital being raised.

UK Growth Capital Update – a review of Q3 2020

According to our research into UK private companies raising between £1 million and £20 million of growth equity capital each, 206 British businesses raised £982 million of growth capital in the third quarter of 2020: an average deal size of £4.77 million.

Q2 2020 saw investment in Fintech sector increase against backdrop of uncertainty. Read more in a report done by Moore Kingston Smith.

UK Growth Capital Update – a review of Q2 2020

According to our research into UK private companies raising between £1 million and £20 million of growth equity capital each, 161 British businesses raised £779 million of growth capital in the second quarter of 2020: an average deal size of £4.84 million.

According to our research into UK private companies raising between £1 million and £20 million of growth equity capital each, 180 British businesses raised £927 million of growth capital in the first quarter of 2020: an average deal size of £5.15 million.

Moore Kingston Smith recently requested senior management and owners of media businesses in the UK to share their thoughts on how Coronavirus will impact the future financial prospects and staffing requirements of the media industry, as well as to what extent they have made use of the UK government support available.

The IASB has introduced some changes to IFRS 3 ‘Business Combinations’ which apply for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020.

This issue of the UK Marketing Monitor provides a digest of the results of the annual survey on the financial performance of marketing services companies.

812 businesses raised £3.42 billion of growth equity capital in 2019 (2018: £3.58 billion across 923 investments). British businesses are therefore securing larger sums of investment than in 2018 as average deal size rose from £3.88 million in 2018 to £4.23 million in 2019.