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Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

A third of all small and medium sized listed companies 'at risk of takeover' in 2025

Companies snapped up this year include Loungers, which agreed a £338m bid from a US investment firm - (Loungers)

The City is set to come under siege from a “major and sustained” flow of takeovers of London listed companies next year that could see up to a third of small and mid-cap AIM businesses vulnerable to bids, an investment bank warned today.

Peel Hunt predicted that the trend of London listed companies being “taken out” by private equity or foreign based corporate raiders will accelerate in the New Year “absent an unexpected change in circumstances.”

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