Stuart Holness was Non-executive Chair at Clear Review, which Mercia exited in July of this year. The exit of Clear Review was an 8x on Mercia’s managed funds. Find out more about Stuart, his role at Clear Review and the advice he offers in helping other NEDs during an exit process. How do you typically
As the UK transitions to leave the EU on January 1st 2021, Mercia Asset Management will be hosting numerous webinars on key issues that will impact SMEs. Joining us will be a range of leading subject experts, who will be sharing their knowledge, pragmatic advice and experience to support you and your business to prepare
Life sciences is one of Mercia’s areas of focus and investment expertise. Mercia’s investment track record in the life sciences sector stretches back over 15 years. Today, Mercia manages a portfolio of over 400 businesses through its venture capital, private equity and debt managed funds, of which c 10% by number are in the life
Following Mercia‘s recent life sciences portfolio, three of Mercia’s portfolio CEOs talk about their businesses with Edison: John Burt, CEO of Medherant; John von Benecke, CEO of Locate Bio; and Dr Harry Lamble, CEO of Sense Biodetection. They discuss the support they have received as part of the Mercia family, how their businesses have progressed,
Eldad Sotnick-Yogev is a natural advisor who focuses on adding value through better execution. He’s sharing the foundations of ‘Performance Marketing’. With 20 years’ experience leading performance marketing teams as well as paid, owned and earned strategies for global and local clients, you’ll learn from a motivating and methodical practitioner, and team leader. His experience includes Mindshare Worldwide,
Chris Kilroy and Paul Mattick from Mercia, discuss the recent valuation uplifts in the EIS portfolio and the sale of two companies for over 8x cost of investment, in the last three months. The discussion also covers: – Removal of provisions introduced to recognise the risks of COVID-19 to portfolio companies – The potential impact
Are you proud of your company website? Does it tell your story as well as you tell it yourself? Does it generate a steady stream of quality leads? In such challenging times our digital presence has never been more fundamental to success. Whether you’re an ambitious start-up with a disruptive vision or an established business
Join us to understand how Mercia uses different funds to support small companies through their growth stages. This conversational webinar will provide an overview of a small number of the Mercia funds, which work together to form part of Mercia’s Complete Connected Capital strategy. Our webinar series has been focused on our EIS funds, but
It may seem counter-intuitive for advisers to suggest their clients make a high-risk and potentially high-return investment into a venture capital focused EIS fund, in an uncertain economic climate. However, in addition to the benefit of investing in high growth technology companies at (potentially) the bottom of the market, there are multiple tax related drivers:
Earlier this year Pete Watson and Ben Tomlinson of Atlas Cloud, undertook one of the largest surveys of the working habits of British office workers since the announcement of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. The research looked into the working habits of more than 3,000 office workers during the coronavirus pandemic, providing valuable insight into the working lives