23-Jun-2017 By James Wallin, MCA
M&A activity in the pub sector is still likely over the next two years, although sellers must ensure they have realistic expectations, according to Sapient Corporate Finance founder, Peter Hansen.
22-Mar-2016 By MCA
Enterprise Inns has unveiled a new ‘premium tenancy’ agreement and announced it is partnering with Laine Pub Company in its managed division.
30-May-2014 By Mark Wingett
Amber Taverns, the fast-growing operator of wet-led community pubs, has changed hands as part of an £80m management buyout.
Downing Corporate Finance aims to raise £16m from pub deal
02-May-2012 By John Harrington, M&C Report
Downing Corporate Finance plans to raise up to £16m via its recently-launched Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to invest in a portfolio of freehold and long-leasehold pubs.
08-Jul-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Private equity will be looking to invest back into the tenanted pub market, Peter Hansen of Sapient Corporate Finance has predicted.
13-Apr-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
Bars and restaurants are showing the biggest signs of financial distress amongst UK businesses, according to the latest Red Flag Alert released by...
29-Mar-2011 By Phil Mellows
Selling Balls Brothers to Novus Leisure is just the latest deal by Paul Hemming. But he's not just a number-cruncher, as Phil Mellows discovers.
17-Feb-2011 By Sapient Corporate Finance
Sapient Corporate Finance was established in 1997 to provide corporate finance advisory services to clients in the pub, bar, restaurant and broader...
14-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Wetherspoons has unveiled like-for-like sales growth of 1.0% in the 11 weeks to 11 July 2010 and reported that its latest openings were "encouraging".
Shortening the road to recovery
08-Mar-2010
The past 24 months have truly tested the resilience of the licensed trade. Major dislocations in financial markets across the globe have had a...
15-Oct-2009 By The PMA Team
A corporate finance specialist is offering to provide finance to multiple lessees who want to buy their freeholds. Downing Corporate Finance has...
17-Jun-2009 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Mark Stretton, editor of Morning Advertiser's sister title M&C Report, gives his views on the period of upheaval facing the trade.
Orchid Group denies reports of looming administration
03-Dec-2008 By Hamish Champ
Orchid Group, the managed pub operator backed by private equity group GI Partners (GIP), has claimed reports that it is on the verge of going into...
Jim Fallon leaves McQueen Ltd
28-Nov-2008 By Hamish Champ
Jim Fallon, one of the UK licensed trade's leading finance experts, has announced he is to leave investment firm McQueen Ltd six years after...
A-B InBev: world's biggest
17-Jul-2008
Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has finally agreed to a $52bn (£26bn) takeover by InBev. The board of the St Louis-based brewer relented after an...
31 Peter Hansen partner, Sapient Corporate Finance (31) Jim Fallon managing director, McQueen (new entry)
29-May-2008
Why they're on the list: Hansen's outfit, Sapient Corporate Finance, is the sector's pre-eminent dealmaker. Since 2003, it has advised on more...
Churchill Taverns sale imminent?
30-Apr-2008 By Hamish Champ
Churchill Taverns, the Northamptonshire-based group which operates 24 managed pubs across the county, is believed to be close to selling...
TCG reports loss of £7.5m
26-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
TCG Acquisitions, the managed company that runs the Henry's and Bar 38 chains among 160 former Spirit Group pubs and bars acquired in September 2005,...
Tattershall Castle reports £7.5 million loss
25-Jul-2007 By The PMA Team
TCG Acquisitions, the managed company that runs the Henry¹s and Bar 38 chains among 160 former Spirit Group pubs and bars acquired in September 2005, made a loss of £7.5m in its first full year.
What the Sunday papers said…
04-Sep-2006
Britain's bingo operators are demanding a£100m tax rebate to compensate them for lost business due to the smoking ban. Sir Peter Fry, chairman of...
Guernsey's RW Randall up for sale
15-Dec-2005
Guernsey brewer RW Randall is up for sale following what appears to be an internal disagreement over the company's future."The company has reached a...
Mill House set to grow to 100 sites
31-Mar-2005
by The PMA Team Mill House Inns chief executive Ted Kennedy has set a target of expanding the company from 60 to around 100 sites after completing a...
All eyes are on the sale of beleaguered SFI
03-Mar-2005
Slug & Lettuce operator SFI Group has been put up for sale, the Morning Advertiser has learnt. The company has set a deadline of mid-March for...
Yates family puts MBO in doubt
21-Jul-2004
Members of the Yates family have thrown the planned management buy-out of Yates Group into disarray, saying they believe it undervalues the...
Laurel is second bidder stalking Yates
24-Jun-2004
The sale of Yates may turn into an auction after the managed pub group revealed that a second potential bidder, now known to be the Laurel Pub...
Yates directors approve share plan to go private
11-Jun-2004
Independent directors at Yates Group have given the green light for a management buyout of the business, backed by a Californian private equity...
Legal advice: Management buy-outs
27-May-2004
If the situation ever arose, could you stage a management buy-out? Would you know how?By Sheldon Cordell of thePublican.com's team of legal experts...
M&B an 'obvious target' if S&N bid fails, says analyst
22-Aug-2003
Mitchells & Butlers is playing for high stakes in its bid for the rival Scottish & Newcastle Retail estate, according to investment bank...
Yates soars on buy-out gossip
16-Jul-2003
Yates Group has poured cold water on suggestions that it is in talks over a venture capital (VC) funded management buy-out, after City rumours pushed...
What the Sunday papers said
07-Oct-2002
The Financial TimesOld Monk, which last week sold eight pubs and a London bar in order to cut debt, is to go into administration. Read more on...
