Query Lander

To help you get out of your business at best, discover how we Custom Fit our Exit Planning Resources to whatever circumstances you're facing

Watch the 2-min video below to hear about the various ways we can help you make the most of YOUR exit:

HOW CAN WE GIVE YOU

THE CUSTOMIZED SUPPORT YOU NEED

TO OPTIMIZE YOUR EXIT FROM YOUR BUSINESS?

Our recommended approach will depend on your answer to this key question:

IS TIME ON YOUR SIDE?

For many small businesses these days, the answer is, sadly, "No". They need rapid support to identify buyers and their value-thinking, before embarking on a sale process that could prove futile & expensive. They also need to explore the alternatives to conventional sale (like the tax-free Employee Ownership Trust route) and to maintain a negotiating poker-face (to avoid a rout).

For Owner-Managers fortunate to feel that time IS on their side, it makes sense to invest in comprehensive Exit Planning and, depending on the time-frame, in Value-Building too.

1

Rapid Exit Plan in 3 weeks

If you want to get out fast (whether for market, business or personal reasons), it's vital to avoid any counter-party taking advantage of weakness in your negotiating position to drive a hard bargain. You can get out without a rout if you play your cards right. We can give you a plan for doing that. And if you want, we can follow up with 'pay-as-you-go' on-call deal support. Since time is of the essence, book a 30-minute consultation call with David Young:

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2

Comprehensive Exit Plan in 12 weeks

This is the ideal Exit Planning programme for Owner-Managers, unless time really is against you (in which case, see 1, above). Our 'CLEAR TO LAND' framework covers all 12 steps to securing your optimum exit under whatever circumstances you're facing.

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3

Buyer-Finder Programme - 6 weeks

For Owner-Managers unsure whether there are buyers out there, this programme is absolutely critical and highly cost-effective. We contact a range of potential buyers (on a no-name basis if preferred) to clarify their interest and value thinking. You'll then have a sound basis for deciding whether to proceed with a sale process, given all the time & expense that involves, sparing you the downside of failed sale.

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4

EOT Suitability Screen - 6 weeks

In the UK, sale to an Employee Ownership Trust is entirely tax-free and fabulously flexible: the selling shareholders can stay on in their management roles for as long as they want, building the management team and growing the business until they feel ready to retire. Sale to an EOT can be done fast and inexpensively in terms of legal & advisory fees, because there is no third party involved, no external marketing process, no negotiation of warranties, and the Owners can even decide to do it without management or staff approval (although consultation is recommended!). No external debt is required and no redundancies are needed post-transaction. The motivational boost from employee owenrship often produces a surge in productivity, revenues and profits. But a Trade Sale or MBO may be preferred for valuation or other reasons, so we help you weigh your options.

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5

Valuation

If time is not on your side, you need a quick sense of what your business is worth and some comparable transaction parameters, to keep a potential buyer honest. If sale to an EOT is attractive (it's fast, completely tax-free and involves no external counter-party), it's worth us doing an EOT valuation for you (which looks at the ability of the business to fund the price out of projected cash flows over 5-10 years).

If time is on your side, it's worth investing in a full valuation (which will, incidentally, reveal who has been buying in your sector in the last 5 years) and seeing how Trade Sale, LBO and EOT valuations for your business compare.

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6

Business Sale Success Secrets Video Course

Here are the secrets of success in selling small businesses, distilled by the Exit Expert from his decades of experience adapting investment banking techniques to the SME sector. Remarkable results are perfectly possible, even with smaller businesses, if we can get buyers to compete for the potential your business offers them. Learn how you can escape the gravitational pull of small mutliples and blast your value to stratospheric levels if you can quantify and communicate the potentials that your business offers to bigger buyers!

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7

Build a Value-Tripling Blueprint in 6 weeks

If time is on your side, the best things you can do to maximise your value at Exit are:

Get your profits on a growth track
Make yourself redundant (ie. reduce the dependence of your business on you)

Both these things deliver a double whammy improvement to value at Exit.

We can show you how...

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8

Quantum Leap Blueprint for Entrepreneurs -in 4 weeks

As an entrepreneur, you struck off the beaten path for freedom, right?

Yet, all too often, your getaway vehicle becomes a treadmill. As you struggle to grow your business, you relegate personal aspirations. But there comes a point where you owe it to yourself and your family to revive the dreams that got lost along the way.

This is what 'Quantum Leap' coaching is all about; giving you a rut-busting plan, in four weeks, to find clarity about your true priorities at this point in your life, and to integrate your personal and business goals, with the support of your loved ones.

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What's the #1 Exit Blind-Spot

That Could Cause You to Crash-Land?

Here's your opportunity to find out in 5 minutes flat...

Exit Expert David Young has helped dozens of Owner-Managers achieve remarkable results in the sale of their businesses, even if loss-making or coping with economic crisis. And he has found that there are 5 Blind-Spots that account for the failure of 80% of attempted sales of Small & Medium businesses. Knowing YOUR Exit Blind-Spots is the first step towards securing a successful Exit & laying the foundation for freedom & a fruitful retirement.

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