By Charlie Conchie International dealmakers have set their sights on British firms this year with the UK now the top target in Europe for inbound and domestic investment, research today reveals. The UK has risen six places year-on-year to third globally as investors look to scoop up UK firms amid a period of falling valuations and market turbulence, according to research published today by the Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). The US and Singapore topped the list globally, but the UK has leapfrogged the Netherlands and Germany to become t…