City Moves for 13 November 2013 | Who’s switching jobs November 12, 2013 Bovill The financial services consultancy has hired Ashley Kovas as head of funds. He was most recently at RBS, where he was head of compliance policy and chaired its group policy forum. Prior to that, Kovas was a director of strategy at the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Altus Partners The executive search company has announced the [...]
City Moves for 05 November 2013 | Who’s switching jobs November 4, 2013 RBS The bank’s real estate management division, part of its global restructuring group, has announced the hire of Jessica Way as a senior asset manager. She was most recently at Aviva Investors, where she was a real estate asset manager for its property trust. Chadbourne & Parke The advisory firm has recruited Nikolai Mikhailov as an [...]
Advisory work lifts revenue at Grant Thornton October 6, 2013 GRANT Thornton has posted a 13 per cent surge in annual revenues to £471m as the accountancy firm picks up more advisory work from large-cap firms and mid-cap audit contracts. The firm said turnover in its advisory business rose by more than a fifth in the year to the end of June, helped by an [...]
Innovation Diary: Three things we can learn from the high growth small business gazelles September 15, 2013 OVER 350,000 new firms have been launched in the UK this year, and confidence is rising. Aldermore Bank research, released on Friday, saw small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) confidence in the economy climb for the fourth consecutive quarter. Yet this tells us little about what it takes to succeed as a UK startup. As Mark [...]
How the geography of global innovation is rapidly changing September 12, 2013 Liam Ward-Proud investigates the cities that are attempting to foster new startup cultures WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has called on Britain to extend its entrepreneurship visa scheme to make London more enticing to startups. He joked that “nobody wants to live in San Jose, California – it’s incredibly boring”. But the geography of global innovation [...]
How the geography of global innovation is rapidly changing September 8, 2013 Liam Ward-Proud investigates the cities that are attempting to foster new startup cultures WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has called on Britain to extend its entrepreneurship visa scheme to make London more enticing to startups. He joked that “nobody wants to live in San Jose, California – it’s incredibly boring”. But the geography of global innovation [...]
RSM Tenon sold to Baker Tilly in pre-pack deal August 22, 2013 RSM TENON was pushed into administration yesterday as its main lender and eventual buyer Baker Tilly failed to strike a deal for a solvent takeover. The UK’s only listed accountancy firm, which had already warned investors that its shares were worthless, called in Deloitte to arrange the pre-pack administration. Baker Tilly will close its deal [...]
Bottom Line: Deal shows rising use of administration August 22, 2013 WHILE the writing had been on the wall for RSM Tenon for several months, the form of its eventual sale took many by surprise. Pre-pack administrations are an increasingly common presence on the high street, where retailers from Dreams to HMV have continued to trade following such deals, but a pre-pack for an accounting firm [...]
Accountant RSM Tenon enters administration as part of sale to Baker Tilly August 22, 2013 Accountant RSM Tenon has entered administration as Baker Tilly is soon to acquire the firm's trading entitites (release) Given the scale of its debt the firm has had little choice but to declare itself insolvent, with three insolvency practitioners at Deloitte LLP appointed as joint administrators to the firm this morning. Immediately following their appointment, [...]
Britain is falling badly behind in the entrepreneurship stakes July 29, 2013 ONE OF Britain’s great advantages is that we are meant to be a much more entrepreneurial nation than most of our major competitors. We do, indeed, create more companies than some other wealthy countries but as a study by RSM reveals, we are hardly covering ourselves in glory. In fact, we are ranked a pathetic [...]