How to Prepare Your Business for Sale?
Business exit planning is one of the most important tasks you can undertake before putting up your business for sale.
Done correctly, you can substantially increase the price you receive for your business.
Business Exit Planning Can Mean the Difference in Millions
Business Exit Planning is a specialist skill. Choosing to work with an M&A Advisor over your accountant or lawyer is one of the best decisions you can make. While business professionals maybe experts in payroll and accounting or commercial contracts, they are not versed in understanding the complex M&A market or deal structuring.
Your business is more than its commercial contracts and its accounts. Suhail can help you get a 360 view on your business from the eyes of a high value acquirer.
Taking the right steps to prepare your business for sale can increase your business value by 50% - 100%.
An Accelarated Path to Exit
The business preparation services are designed to support you and your team to build a saleable business. 80% of businesses fail to sell as they owners take no action to make their business attractive to strategic buyers and investors.
The Business Exit Accelarator allows the business to go from a where it is now to where it needs to go to become a saleable business.
Preparatory services are ideal for businesses with a turnover of between £500,000 and £10,000,000 seeking to sell within the next 3 years to 6 months
Preparatory Advisory Services Offered at 3 Levels
Bespoke M&A Advisory
I only work with a selected handful of M&A Advisory Clients.
This is a consultancy led service which suits you if you want to prepare your business for sale for the highest results.
The consultancy proceeds with "Owner Focus" with 1 day of initial consultancy with you as an owner to understand your post exit goals. It is paramount to understand your current circumstances and goals to determine the next steps of your exit. We determine an initial valuation and consult on the different deal structures that may be best suited for your goals and business.
The "Owner Focus" M&A Advice follows onto "Business Focus" which includes 1 - 5 days of consultancy and visits to your business as required. I will conduct meetings with your board or senior management team to gather data on your business and provide initial coaching. Your team will have full access to the video trainings to implement in their divisions.
The initial consultancy is followed by a workshop to present the outcomes with a detailed actionable roadmap for your team to implement.
The final step of the Bespoke Advisory moves on to "Deal Focus". The focus moves onto the area which revolves around making your business "Deal Ready". We revisit the first day of consultancy to revalue the business and revisit the deal structures. You will begin to collate all of the business documentation. I will put the business through a test due diligence run on the main elemenets of the business. This is necessary to ensure potential acquirers are not able to erode the price of the business. Owners are surprised at the level of scrutiny their businesses are put under when undergoing due diligence. However, this exercise will set your business apart from 95% of businesses and put you on a road to a successful completion.
Tax planning is also a key element in a business sale. I will also guide you to the areas you shoud consider. As an entrepreneur you already know it is not about how much you make but about how much you can keep.
We work together to directly apply the principles of the Business Exit Accelerator and increase Shareholder Value.
Please only enquire if you are able to do so. This service is for premium level clients who are committed to extract the value from their business.
Contact Us
suhail@suhailshaikhbusiness.com
07809621556