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ISSUE 166<br />
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GROWTH | OPPORTUNITIES | EXPERTISE<br />
What's next for takeovers of UK strategic assets<br />
after the failed Pfizer-AstraZeneca bid?<br />
ISLAND IN RECOVERY REVIVING DEALS IN CYPRUS MIDLANDS MEN THE TEAM BEHIND CATALYST<br />
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What's next for takeovers of UK strategic assets<br />
after the failed Pfizer-AstraZeneca bid?<br />
ISLAND IN RECOVERY REVIVING DEALS IN CYPRUS MIDLANDS MEN THE TEAM BEHIND CATALYST<br />
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COVER: GALLERYSTOCK<br />
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04 Jilted suitors<br />
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<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=3"> @ICAEW_CORP_FIN Contents Oct 2014 Issue 166 </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=4"> WELCOME Romance and M&A The wedding dowry</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=5"> NEWS & EVENTS Faculty news BARONESS HOGG</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=6"> NEWS & EVENTS Marios Demetriad</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=7"> MOULTON STEEL The in crowd Crowdfunding plat</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=8"> We let our clients do the talking. Rempower As</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=9"> Xerxes Equity Limited Asset Based Lending Bu</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=10"> BRIEFING In numbers Global tech IPOs on the </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=11"> ROADSHOW Paradise found? Emerging fro</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=12"> any time in the past 18 months.” The next ste</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=13"> ROADSHOW “Due to a lack of bank finance, overle</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=14"> SHIFTING SANDS The oil and gas sector has been on</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=15"> OIL AND GAS A s one of the sectors more</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=16"> $276bn of oil and gas M&A globally in 2012 – a </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=17"> Cyber security in corporate finance Cyber secur</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=18"> SELF PRESERVATION SOCIETY Four years after Cadbur</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=19"> to decide when to sell the assets they own, regar</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=20"> didn't help its case in the end – 1,500 employees</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=21"> long-term approach company boards where they fee</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=22"> COVER STORY “The general </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=23"> ADVANCE YOUR CAREER WITH THE DIPLOMA IN CORPORATE</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=24"> Going the distance Andy Currie is managing part</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=25"> PROFILE Ri</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=26"> a better position now than we were then, and have</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=27"> PROFILE There are a number of targets on our</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=28"> The business finance guide A JOURNEY FROM START-</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=29"> CORPORATE TREASURERS T he demand</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=30"> How does a focus on the north of England work as </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=31"> PRIVATE EQUITY THE NORTHEDGE PORTFOLIO ROB</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=32"> Appointments KPMG UK'S PROMOTIONS Caroline B</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=33"> COMPANY NEWS GT RECRUITS IN NORTH WES</a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=34"> ON MY CV Christmas comes early THE CV </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=35"> “I didn't realise Baird has completed M&A deals </a>
<a title="Corporate Financier OCTOBER 14 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/edd2d66a?page=36"> £ CONSIDERABLE BASEL III will ch</a>