By: William Turvill

I write about M&A, deals, IPOs, private equity, asset management, media and a few other areas for City A.M. I also write news features and am always interested in interviewing and profiling high-profile business figures. I previously worked for Press Gazette and Mail Online.

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Brexit concerns increasingly weighing on the minds of business owners

May 3, 2016

Small and medium enterprise (SME) owners are becoming increasingly wary of a so-called Brexit, new research suggests. Some 81 per cent of respondents in the Smith and Willamson Enterprise Index felt a UK vote to leave the European Union would negatively affect their business, up 13 percentage points from June 2015. Read more: Government: Using phones in EU [...]
London’s Crossrail and HS2 projects helps drive UK’s attractiveness for infrastructure investors

May 3, 2016

London schemes such as Crossrail and High Speed 2 have helped drive the UK to greater attractiveness for infrastructure investment. The Global Infrastructure Investment Index, published today by Arcadis, puts the UK in ninth place globally, up from 10th in 2015 and 13th in 2012. This makes it one of the fastest-growing of the 41 countries [...]
London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse undecided on whether shareholders will be asked to vote on merger before EU referendum as Intercontinental Exchange bides time

May 2, 2016

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Deutsche Boerse have yet to decide whether shareholders will be asked to vote on their proposed merger before the EU referendum. City A.M. understands shareholders will be presented with a prospectus containing details of when the merger will be voted on before 23 June. But the stock exchanges are [...]
Why this boutique investment bank sees positives no matter which way the EU referendum goes

May 2, 2016

It's difficult to find many investment banks feeling cheery about 2016. Global first-quarter revenues dropped to their lowest levels since 2009. Banking giants have reported double-digital percentage profit falls. And thousands of jobs have been lost. But Zeus Capital, a boutique investment bank founded in 2002, offers a success story. Albeit while operating on a [...]
USA Today publisher slams rival for “lack of engagement” with “unsolicited” takeover offer and asks shareholders to show support

May 2, 2016

US newspaper publisher Gannett has turned the heat up on Tribune, a rival company it wants to acquire. Gannett, which publishes USA Today and a number of local newspapers in the UK through Newsquest, last week made an $815m (£556m) offer for the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun owner. Read more: From porn to property: [...]
Tech entrepreneurs aim higher than alternative investment market despite increasing investor demand

May 2, 2016

Technology companies are aiming away from the London Stock Exchange's alternative investment market (Aim) despite strong demand from investors, new research suggests. Less than a quarter of UK technology entrepreneurs are planning to use Aim as an exit strategy, according to research from law firm Nabarro out today. Although 82 per cent of tech entrepreneurs [...]
Oil field service companies announce breakdown of $28bn merger following intervention from US authorities

May 2, 2016

Halliburton and Baker Hughes have called off their $28bn (£19.2bn) merger, which would have represented the largest oil field services acquisition ever. The deal abandonment comes after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) last month filed a lawsuit to stop the merger. The DOJ said Halliburton's acquisition of its smaller rival would hamper competition, raise [...]
No apology from Ken Livingstone following accusations of anti-Semitism

April 30, 2016

Ken Livingstone has said he does not expect his conduct to have any bearing on Sadiq Khan's performance in next week's London mayoral election. Speaking at the end of a week in which he was suspended from the Labour Party over comments judged to have been anti-Semitic, Livingstone said he was "not going to apologise for telling [...]
How institutional investment and crowdfunding are dominating the growth capital market and making individual investors a distinct minority

April 30, 2016

In the first quarter of this year we saw strong activity in growth capital raising with institutional investment, including crowdfunding, dominating over direct investment. This is largely due to the increasing sophistication and specialisation of institutions in providing growth capital, coupled with the increasing activity of crowdfunding platform operators over the last few years. Read [...]
Government: It’s really cheap to use your phone in Europe now… so please don’t vote Brexit!

April 30, 2016

The cost of using your mobile phone in Europe has been slashed today. And, not one to miss a trick, the government has used it as an opportunity to discourage people from voting for a Brexit in June's EU referendum. Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey said the change means "from today you are quite literally [...]

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