Smarter Thinking
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of financial buyers acquiring tech companies. More and more sellers are choosing to include financial buyers in the mix alongside strategic buyers...
Smarter Thinking
The European payments market continues to demonstrate impressive growth. Globally M&A in payments is strong. In Q4 2018, payments registered the fastest quarter-on-quarter growth in M&A deals in the financial services sector (30.8%), despite only...
Smarter Thinking
By Sheana O’Sullivan I recently attended Irish Fintech in the Bay hosted by Enterprise Ireland, the economic development agency of the Irish Government. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the up-and-coming fintech companies...
Demystifying M&A
By Alastair Church Warranties and indemnities are an important part of most M&A transactions. They are the medium by which risk is allocated between the buyers and sellers of a business. Increasingly, Warranty and Indemnity...
Thought Leadership
Silicon Valley remains top of the global ranking when it comes to funding and deal value and is hard to beat when it comes to innovation. Many European scaling companies dream of relocating part of their...
Videos
FirstCapital Chairman, Hazel Moore, was a guest speaker at TechBBQ 2018, an international tech start-up summit which took place in Copenhagen on 24th and 25th September 2018. Hazel delivered her talk on 5 Steps to...
Thought Leadership
We recently co-hosted a Smarter Connections dinner for Chairs, NEDs and CEOs of growth-stage tech companies with private equity firm, Sovereign Capital Partners, on the topic of Digital Transformation, and were delighted to have Dr...
Thought Leadership
By Jason Purcell The fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, is set to transform the manufacturing industry as we know it. Machine to machine communications of “things” connected via the Internet of Things...
Demystifying M&A
By Piers Hartland-Swann So you’ve reached the point in a sale process where you’ve selected a preferred buyer for your business and agreed heads of terms for the deal. Next, the buyer will want to...
News
Hazel Moore, co-founder, chairman, FirstCapital, is one of 36 dealmakers named in Mergers & Acquisitions’ 2019 Most Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A. How did you get into dealmaking? I had an unconventional start in dealmaking. I...
Videos
The FirstCapital team talks about our company culture, including their personal experiences and opportunities available to them.
Demystifying M&A
By Jason Purcell It is an exciting moment for a founder or CEO when a potential buyer approaches you and expresses an interest in acquisition. Especially if it is a tech giant from Silicon Valley...