Audit or Review: Which is Right When Scaling and Selling Your Business?
When scaling your business with a future sale in mind, how you prepare your financial statements can have a major impact on your eventual exit. One of the key decisions…
Maximise your business’s value with multiple arbitrage
As a business owner, you’ve probably considered selling your company – whether as part of your long-term plans, retirement goals, or the sheer frustration of running a business. Regardless of…
Exiting your business by a trade sale
One of the most popular routes to exit a business is by selling your business to a third-party trade buyer in a trade sale or via a business auction arrangement.…
Management Buy Outs
A common way for an SME business owner to consider disposing of their business is by offering it for sale to the existing management team – often referred to as…
Employee Ownership Trusts
In one of our recent blogs (link here) we looked at the six most common exit strategies for owners of SMEs. This month we are going to take a closer…
Appointing Advisors
One of the biggest decisions that you will need to make early on in the sale process is who to appoint as your advisors. These will include financial advisors, lawyers…
Exit Strategies
Sale strategies for your business Once you have made the decision to sell your business and taken any steps necessary to prepare for sale, you will need to consider who…
Why sell your business?
Last month we looked at some of the areas of your business that you can focus on in the months, or even years, prior to sale in order to potentially…
What to consider when preparing your business for sale
Over the next few months we are going to be writing a series of blogs that may be of interest if you are thinking of selling your business. Some of…
Exit This Way: What You’ll Need to Know About Exit Planning
Whether you’re retiring or selling to move on to your next challenge, rigorous exit planning is essential. If you’re looking to sell the business, you’ll want to achieve the best…