Darren Jacklin lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He built a very successful property training business of the course of 25 years. 

He currently serves on 2 paid boards of directors of some high profiles internationally. One of the companies is a residential commercial real estate company helping taking from a start-up company to a multi billion dollar of annual revenue.

Here Darren talks about his acquisition strategy in regards to his 2 niches, accountancy and cyber security.

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John Andrews is a Partner in a firm called JMW Solicitors based in London and in Manchester. They act for clients all over the UK. He is a Partner in the Corporate team. John specialises in mergers and acquisitions and drafting commercial documents. The types of clients he acts for are range from start-ups, people looking to get into this sector and right up to large Plc, with a real emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.

In this podcast he talks about the work he does with his clients and helping them to buy businesses using very little or non of their own money.

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ps Don't forget - If you need any help with your Mergers, Acquisitions & Deals then please connect with me on Linkedin and send me a direct message. :0) 

Daniel Beaumont started his career as a Chartered Accountant, then after qualifying he took over from running his family textile business in Lancashire. He then sold that company 4 years ago having ran it for 3 years post sale. 

He left the company in 2020, then bought two manufacturing businesses and he now spends his time overseeing those and as well as looking for his next acquisition and business owners who are looking to exit.

Jeremy Harbour became an entrepreneur from a very young age. He started a Telecoms company and later completed his first M & A deal on a mobile phone shop located near his own business. Learning from his first acquisition and within 18 months he acquired a further 13 different companies. 

He has done over 100 deals and advised on 200 more. In 2009 he set up The Harbour Club, which is the largest global community of      M & A professionals in the world where they help entrepreneurs understand how to do transactions in a safe way. 

His main focus currently is on capital markets and transactions, using public companies to acquire more companies.

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James Sinclair is a successful entrepreneur in the UK. He started off as a kids entertainer and now owns a number of businesses all around building brands, which families love. They include a chain of day nurseries, chain of indoor play centres, outdoor attractions including Marsh Farm and Lee Valley Zoo. 

He has also just bought the world famous Rossi Ice Cream company which is an established brand, 90 years old. 

James talks about his acquisitions during his extensive entrepreneurial career.

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Giles Button was trained in physics and business studies. 

He went into the field of telecoms as a systems administrator and then into marketing and managing re-sales around Europe. 

After being involved in an advertising agency and wanting to start his own business, Giles started web design agency and spent 10 years getting it to a good point and had to work at a turnaround of the business. 

For the last 10 years he has been helping other business owners and managing business turnarounds.

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Della Kirkman lives in New Haven, Indiana, US she has a varied background of working in hospitality and finance. Della later decided to become a CPA Chartered Accountant and started contacting everyone she knew and letting them know she was going to be an accountant and offering her services. She found a local company to work for and was interested in buying the company, which she then bought with the partner of the firm, where they grew and re- structured the firm. 

She then sold the company. Her partner bought a Pizza Bar and they ended up buying the whole city block and it is now for sale. 

Her focus on investing and buying and selling businesses.

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Susanna Hancock is based in Sale, Manchester. She is an entrepreneur of 30 years, a Eco Property Developer, an ethical business investor and a speaker. Her background is in Manufacturing, International Marketing and Business Transformation. She has spent 30 years in industry across sector but largely operating in retail. She was in business until the age of 27 and then decided to become an entrepreneur. 

Listen in on Susanna's latest acquisition. Enjoy the show!

Listen to Jeanette's 3 case studies and learn how she found her first deal using social media!

Jeanette Holm lives in Stockholm, Sweden and she has been an entrepreneur for 14 years. 

She started her first business which was a Nanny business called Nannynu. 

Jeanette also started a cleaning business called Tidynu and then sometime later she actually started buying companies. 

She then sold her 5 companies and is now deciding on what to do next.

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Johann Nogueira lives in Melbourne, Australia and he owns two different companies two digital agencies a SAAS company and a business education company. 

He started out as a PHD Student and is now a Tech Investor.

In this interview Johann explains how he met a fellow tech investor and subsequently structured an amazing deal.

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