Business Owners

Getting the best return from the sale of your company or business is all about preparation and exposure.

Preparation is vital, a good advisory firm will work with you to maximise the value of your firm by fine tuning your processes and costs, and structuring your management and legal affairs to ensure that you are an appealing package to the market.

Once your business is optimised for the market what is needed next is exposure to as many interested buyers as possible. As with any sale the more interested buyers there are the better the return. A major mistake that is often made is that owners are drawn into a proprietary deal, a proprietary deal occurs when a seller is approached and convinced to negotiate the sale of their business to a single bidder without their advisor taking the necessary steps to create a competitive marketplace. This plays out to the advantage of the bidder who has no competition and the advisor who has an easy sale.

Of course, you do not want knowledge of your sale in the public arena, there are potential downsides to that like loss of key personnel or loss of business. You need your sale negotiations to be secure, anonymous, and confidential. A good advisor will protect you from adverse publicity while ensuring that you have access to as many genuine buyers as possible. There have never been so many potential buyers out there as there are now. They range from national or international trade buyers to PE Funds looking to grow their portfolio or Family Offices seeking solid acquisitions.

It is vital therefore that, before you decide on an advisor, that you are assured that they have real access to as broad a market as possible for your company or business.

Anonymous exposure to local and global buyers is what M&A Markets offers.

Ask your advisors today about their access to an international marketplace. Many advisory firms belong to business groups who work together to share deals among their member firms, M&A Markets is not tied to any group and guarantees a level playing field where all members and their clients have equal access to deals.

Are You Looking For An Acquisition To Grow Your Business?

There are many benefits to buying a business rather than relying on organic growth. To have cash flow, pre-existing customers and experienced staff from day one allows you to concentrate on developing your business. A growth through an acquisition strategy opens opportunities like cross-selling existing product lines to fresh customers and fresh product lines to existing customers. Simply put it delivers established customers and geographic coverage fast. It also removes competition and allows you to spread the cost of your overheads.

Organic growth is incremental, an acquisition delivers critical mass fast. Revenue forgone also is an ignored cost of targeting organic growth, while the initial cost of an acquisition may seem high the cost of all those lost sales due to slower organic growth must be taken into account. Having a relatively instant desk or counter from which to sell your product means a huge difference to your EOY.

In this era of low-cost capital allied with the development of a multiple financial service offerings aimed at financing buy-Ins, acquisitions and buy-outs means that your advisors can deliver strategies to finance your acquisition which freeing up capital for the most important task - developing your business.

The M&A Markets secure platform allows your advisors to find quality acquisitions which have been vetted by their own advisors and are genuinely for sale. No need for expensive and often fruitless investigations, businesses listed on the platform are for sale.

Because the platform is anonymous your confidentiality is protected and you can carry on your business as normal while your advisors find and negotiate deals on your behalf. M&A Markets allows your advisors to list your specific requirements with specific needs and gain interest from trusted advisors. This offers opportunities not just in your own region but internationally across EMEA and America.

Ask your advisors today about their access to an international marketplace. Many advisory firms belong business groups who work together to share deals among their member firms, M&A Markets is not tied to any group and guarantees a level playing field where all members and their clients have equal access to deals.

You have capital but you also have skills to offer. Growing companies regularly need new partners with experience of different markets, processes, systems or controls, plus of course industry connections.

If you have more than $1m in capital and want to get back into industry talk to your M&A advisors about finding a suitable target company using our platform

You remain totally anonymous until a suitable candidate firm is identified yet benefit from international access to firms seeking mergers, partners and buy-ins.

You have time, perspective, and experience and these have real value to firms working towards bringing products or services from concept or regional bases to a global stage.

M&A Markets allows your advisors to seek quality opportunities which are presented by professional advisors.

Because the platform is anonymous your confidentiality is protected and you can carry on your life as normal while your advisors find and negotiate a deal on your behalf. M&A Markets allows your advisors to list your specific requirements with specific needs and gain interest from trusted advisors. This offers opportunities not just in your own region but internationally across EMEA and America.

Ask your advisors today about their access to our international marketplace.

You may be lucky enough to have a target partner in mind but business is rarely that simple. Otherwise, you are faced with searching in a restricted pool unless you break through the access barriers you face, this is called the “Opportunity Gap”.

Listing in a marketplace that keeps your anonymity and has access to a wide audience with the ability to enter into a deal is the ideal solution. At M&A Markets we give that opportunity to business owners. Along with their trusted advisor that can list a buy mandate for all M&A Market members to view, a suitable buyer can be found.

You remain totally anonymous until a suitable candidate firm is identified yet benefit from international access to firms seeking mergers, partners and buy-ins.

M&A Markets allows your advisors to seek quality opportunities which are presented by professional advisors.