High-growth companies

This report focuses on the M&A activity of high growth companies in the South East. Beauhurst identifies high growth businesses using eight triggers that they believe suggest a company has high growth potential. These include: equity investment; debt investment; accelerator programmes; scaleup status; MBOs/MBIs; innovation grants; 3rd party high growth lists. More details on Beauhurst’s tracking triggers are available at beauhurst.com.

In scope events

This report focuses on M&A activity, where either the acquired company or the acquiring company is headquartered in the UK's South East region, which includes Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. For an acquisition event to be captured, either the acquired or acquiring company must currently, or previously, have met one of Beauhurst's tracking triggers or be captured via news articles.

Acquisitions

An acquisition occurs when a company sells the majority (>50%) of its existing shares to another company or a fund.