Broad process
Widest outreach
The largest credible universe of strategics and financial sponsors. Maximum competitive tension, and the highest exposure to the market knowing you are for sale.
Sell the business you built. At the number it deserves.
We run the full sell-side process for founder-led services and consumer companies: preparation, buyer identification, structured competition, and close. We earn the majority of our fee only when you do.
5,000+
Verified buyers
In our private network
12 yrs
Experience
Building & selling businesses
93%
Success rate
Of mandates taken to close
A process built to reach the highest credible number.
Most businesses go to market before they are ready, to a buyer who was never going to pay the most. We fix both.
Built the businesses we advise
We have operated and exited businesses at 8-9 figures. The judgment we bring is earned, not theoretical.
Prepared before you go to market
We fix what buyers discount before they find it. The right time to prepare a sale is twelve to twenty-four months out.
A genuinely competitive process
We identify the buyers who pay a strategic premium, not just the obvious ones, and put them in structured competition.
Verified, defensible numbers
Financials and customer metrics stress-tested so diligence confirms the upside instead of discovering surprises.
The right buyer network
Strategics, sponsors, and family offices active in your sector. Warm relationships, not a cold list.
Aligned on your outcome
We earn the majority of our fee at close. Our incentive is to maximise what you receive, not to complete quickly.
How wide to go is the first decision.
Your company is never listed. We approach a defined set of counterparties directly, under non-disclosure, and how many we approach is a judgment call we make with you before anything moves.
Targeted process
A curated set of counterparties
Pre-qualified buyers only, chosen for strategic fit and ability to close. Keeps most of the tension of a broad process while sharply reducing confidentiality risk and the demand on your management time.
Negotiated sale
One counterparty at a time
No formal process. Slower on price discovery, but the fastest and quietest route when a natural acquirer already exists, or when discretion outweighs every other consideration.
The honest trade-off: confidentiality means fewer people and staged disclosure, competition means enough credible buyers to keep the price honest. We will tell you what each route costs you in price, in exposure, and in your own time, and we will recommend one on the merits of your business rather than on what is easiest to run.
The instruments of a run process.
What actually happens between the decision to sell and the wire clearing. Your staff, your customers, your suppliers and your competitors learn about the sale when you decide to tell them, and not before.
- The teaserOne or two pages describing the business without naming it. Sector, scale, and the reason a buyer should care. Nothing that identifies you.
- Non-disclosure agreementsSigned before a name is released. Counterparties are screened for funding and intent before they reach this stage, not after.
- The information memorandumThe full commercial case: financials, cohorts, customers, operations, and the growth thesis a buyer is underwriting. Released only to parties under NDA.
- Indications of interestNon-binding proposals covering valuation range, structure, and funding. Compared on deal certainty as well as headline price.
- Management presentationsA shortlist meets you. This is where the buyer who pays a premium separates from the buyer who was curious.
- Letter of intent and exclusivityTerms in writing before diligence opens. What you concede here is difficult to recover, so it is negotiated hard.
- Diligence to signingQuality of earnings, working capital, legal. Prepared for in advance so diligence confirms the case rather than reopening the price.
Four stages, one outcome.
A structured sell-side process, run end to end. You focus on the business. We run the transaction.
01
Business preparation
We identify what buyers will discount and fix it first: margin, revenue quality, concentration, and the equity story.
02
Buyer identification
We map the buyers who pay a strategic premium and approach them directly, discreetly, on your terms.
03
Structured competition
Multiple credible parties, running to one timeline. Competitive tension is what moves the final number.
04
Negotiation and close
We manage diligence, legal, and structure to protect the headline price all the way to signed and funded.
Comparing us to a big-name bank?
The honest version: for a multi-billion cross-border deal, hire the bank. Where preparation and buyer selection decide the price, the maths favours the specialist.
- Your mandate is not staffed downAt a bulge-bracket bank, seniority follows fee size, and most mandates sit below the partners' attention line. Here the people who pitch your process run it, from first call to close.
- Banks sell the business you have. We build the one buyers pay up forA bank's work starts when you are ready to transact. Ours starts 12-24 months earlier: lifting margin, fixing concentration, removing founder dependency, so diligence confirms the price instead of cutting it.
- Paid on your outcome, not their processNo heavy retainers billed win or lose. The majority of our fee arrives only when your deal closes, at a number you chose to accept.
Book a discovery call.
A free 15-minute intro with our M&A desk: your business, your timing, and whether we are the right team to run your exit.
- 15 minutes with a senior principal, not a sales team.
- Talk through the business, your timing, and what an exit could look like.
- Leave knowing whether it makes sense to go further, and what the next step is.
- Held in confidence, with no commitment on either side. Want the deep 60-minute working session on where value is stuck instead? That's the Exit Readiness Session.
5,000+Verified buyers
93%Success rate
What sellers ask most.
How long does a sale take?
Most processes run four to eight months from engagement to close. Preparation beforehand can add more time, and it is usually the best-paid time you will spend.
Will people find out my business is for sale?
No. We go to market with an anonymized profile under a codename. Buyers only learn the name of the business after signing an NDA, and we control who is approached in the first place.
What does it cost?
The majority of our fee is paid at close, as a percentage of the transaction. There is no charge for the first conversation or the indicative valuation. We cover exact terms on the call.
What if I am not ready to sell yet?
Then you are early, which is the best position to be in. Our Value Creation team works with owners twelve to twenty-four months before a sale to lift both profit and multiple.
Do I have to accept an offer?
Never. You stay in control of the decision at every stage. Our job is to put you in a position where you are choosing between strong options, not reacting to one.
Find out what your business is really worth.
One call to understand your indicative valuation, what is capping the multiple, and what it could be worth with focused work. Held in confidence, with no commitment on either side.