Selling Your Business

You’ve worked hard to build your business. We’ll help you maximise its sale value – and reduce your risks and taxes.

Rather than just conducting an auction, our services include:

Pre Sale

• Valuing your business It may be much greater than your accounts indicate.
• Creating management incentive plans – including Employers’ Management Incentive (EMI) schemes.
• Searching for and identifying buyers.
• Drafting bid documentation.
• Restructuring.

Tender and Auction

• Managing the tender and auction process.
• Managing disclosures.
• Undertaking buyer due diligence.
• Helping you negotiate terms of sale from expressions of interest to the final contract.

Risk Management

• Managing your risks, including:
  • Warranties
  • Payments to you – across upfront and deferred payments.
  • Pensions
  • Terms and conditions of exit
  • Aligning management risks and rewards

Minimising Taxes

• Advising on capital structures – matching assets and liabilities.
• Optimise your taxes such as:
  • Inheritance Tax (IHT),
  • Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Your Helping Hand

As well as technical/financial advice, we’ll guide you through your sale. We’ll help you stay focused on your objectives.

Ideally, we should start well before your intended sale.

Johnsons – Chartered Accountants.

We‘re more than just UK Chartered Accountants. 

• We’re a growing, full-service, mid-sized firm of Chartered Accountants – and are small enough to care.
• We’ve currently the resources and expertise to address your corporate finance requirements.
• Our overheads are significantly less than those of a typical central London firm.

Next Step

Contact us to learn how we’ll optimise your sale value – and minimise your risks and taxes. You’ll be pleased you did.