Grant Thornton Corporate Finance is predicting a slower year of activity on the Alternative Investment Market, following another record-breaking year last year.
According to London Stock Exchange figures published up to and through February this year, Aim raised some £9bn in new and additional funding last year, when some 519 UK and international companies were admitted. Through February this year the market had raised some £1.2bn in new and additional funding, with the total number of companies listed on Aim standing at 1,426, representing a total market capitalisation value above £65bn. Grant Thornton states the total raised through the entire first quarter of this year is more than £1.7bn, up more than 270% on the same period last year. Howe...
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