Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

John Cox has experience of buying and selling businesses and negotiating joint venture agreements. This includes Blackwell's purchase of 50% of the UnCover document delivery service, the acquisition of businesses, including the purchase of Current Medical Literature in 1995 and the sale of businesses: Carfax to Routledge in 1997, Routledge to Taylor & Francis in 1998, Publishers Communications Group to Ingenta in 2000 and Catchword to Ingenta in 2001.

Consultancy projects have included journal valuations, marketing publishing companies for sale and negotiating joint venture partnerships.