Our buy-side services help you to identify businesses for sale, and then analyse and secure great deals to power your growth. For some companies, acquisitions are part-and-parcel of daily activity but for others, one or two acquisitions in the lifetime of a business is quite enough.
Talk to us about our buy-side advisory service. We hold close relationships with other brokers and have access to many deals before they reach the market.
Contact UsMost importantly, we can drive the process and ensure all moving parts are aligning towards the end goal: a successful acquisition at the right price, with the right finance, in the right timeframes.
Bringing together buyers, sellers, lawyers, accountants, finance companies and advisors can be like herding sheep. Luckily, we have a loud whistle and some strong commands!
If you're on the acquisition trail and looking for businesses for sale, don't do it alone!
Buying a Business
Invariably, yes! Most buyers will want to embrace all of the factors that made your business attractive to them in the first instance. Key staff can be vital to the success of the acquisition and sale. You'll need to take advice on TUPE matters to ensure your staff are properly treated and their contracts are respected.
Our experience ranges from 3 weeks to 2 years. There are so many factors that come into play that it's almost impossible to define an average time. We can get you to market within days, but the time to sell can be influenced by price, expectations, finance availability, lawyers (fast and slow!), lease complications, buyer attitude, etc.
Most transactions have a healthy handover period from old owner to new. Willingness to stay on for a while post-sale can be a strong, positive indicator to your buyer that you have unshakeable faith in your business, i.e. you're not selling and immediately running for the hills. Depending on the complexity of your business, the handover period could be just a few weeks, or up to a year.
Accounts hold the key! Your buyers and their financers will rely on accounts. make sure your last filed accounts are available, plus make sure you have accurate records (sometime called Management Information) that cover any periods since your last financial year-end and a recent month. Alongside this, we need a general summary of your business and any assets that the business owns.
Only if you choose this route, but we wouldn't advise it. The best sales happen with confidentiality and discretion, with your broker using relationships and their buyer databases to find your ideal buyer.
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