What selling to us actually looks like
Most owners we speak to have never sold a business before, and have no intention of enjoying the process. Here is what it involves, written plainly.
The first conversation
One call, confidential. No NDA needed to start, no obligation, and no information pack to prepare. We will already have a view of your business from the public record; you tell us where that view is wrong.
If it goes nowhere, it goes nowhere, and nobody else hears about it.
What we need to see
Three years of accounts, a sense of the contract base — what is recurring, what is project work, who the big customers are — and an honest account of what does not work.
That is enough for us to give you a number.
What happens to your people
Engineers stay. Terms are honoured. The trading name over the door stays. We are buying a working business, and the people are most of what we are buying.
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What happens to you
The options run from a full exit with a short handover, through six to twelve months staying on while things settle, to staying properly involved and rolling some of your equity into the wider group.
Which one suits you is your decision, not a condition of the deal.
What we will not do
We will not take you through six months of diligence and then retrade the price at the end. We will not market your business to other buyers. We will not contact your staff or your customers without your agreement.
Our approach
From the first confidential conversation to the years after completion.
Step 1
Private conversation
A confidential initial conversation about you, the business and what you want from a potential sale.
Step 2
Understand the business
We spend time understanding the financials, customers, people, operations and your plans for the future.
Step 3
Indicative proposal
If there is a fit, we make a clear, straightforward indicative proposal.
Step 4
Focused due diligence
We work through the detail with you and your advisers while trying to minimise disruption to the business.
Step 5
Completion and transition
We agree a transition that works for you, your employees and customers.
Step 6
Invest for the future
We support the management team and invest in the people, systems and growth opportunities that can take the business forward.