Selling Your Company

Why use an advisor

Whatever your reasons for selling your business – retirement, reinvestment or maybe expansion, you will naturally want to achieve the best possible price and see that you reach the most favourable terms for you and your company.

The sale of a business can often be quite complex. An advisor will guide you through the process; from preparing your business for sale to ensuring a smooth completion. A good advisor will also market your business to a wide range of potential purchasers; often these can be entirely unrelated to your sector and from overseas. By casting the net wide, you’ll have a better opportunity of finding the right deal.
 

Why Alaris

We are a company sale specialist, selling UK-based private businesses to plcs and multinational groups. These buyers often pay more than a trade buyer and are professionals experienced in the process of acquiring companies. At Alaris we have close relationships with just these acquirers ensuring we can get your company in front of the right potential buyers.

Focused on your business

We focus on businesses with a value of between £1 and £10million and we believe we understand the motivations and needs of businesses of this size. We also understand that each business differs and that’s why we tailor our service to our clients' specific requirements. You can be guaranteed that your business will be important to us and that we will be entirely focused on ensuring a successful outcome.

Senior experienced advisors

We only work with senior advisors who have extensive experience in the UK smaller company mergers and acquisitions market. An experienced advisor will manage the sale of your business and will be your day-to-day contact. They will work with you throughout the process, at no point will you be handed over to more junior members of the team.

Negotiation Only Service

Our “Negotiation Only” service is for companies who have already been approached by a purchaser or who are considering an MBO.  Alaris will be able to guide you through the sale process to help ensure that, in the absence of other interested parties, you achieve a sale price and related transaction terms in line with market rates.

Please contact a Director on +44(0)20 7399 7900 if you wish to discuss our Negotiation Only service.

Identifying and accessing purchasers

One of our greatest assets is our powerful database of purchasers. All our clients benefit from the depth of information we hold on acquisitive companies, financial purchasers, professional advisors and other intermediaries. Many of these contacts are known to us and we remain in regular contact. As our focus is company sales, purchasers are often keen to talk to us in the knowledge that we are acting exclusively for quality companies that are likely to be relevant to their business.

Our in-house research department allows us to think outside the box and identify less than obvious potential purchasers further enhancing sale opportunities.

International Reach

Opportunities and competition between interested parties can be enhanced by also considering an international sale.

Alaris has an extensive network of merger and acquisition professionals internationally, who can assist in sourcing purchasers for a client’s business.  Part of our international reach is as a result of our very close business and working relationship with Cavendish Corporate Finance, which allows us access to contacts within M&A International Inc. (www.mergers.net), an international network that includes over 600 professionals in 45 M&A advisory and investment banking firms operating in 42 countries.

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