Selling your business is one of the biggest decisions you will make. You will be keen to maximise the sale proceeds but may also be keen to ensure the business you have built and the staff you employ are in safe hands post sale.

The sale process can be a difficult process and expert advice at each stage is important.

We can assist you throughout the sale, in particular in the following areas:

• Valuing your business
• Identifying potential buyers
• Marketing the business for sale
• Negotiating with purchasers and their advisors
• Ensuring the sale is enacted tax efficiently

Do you have a formal succession plan in place? If not, why not?

You may have built up your business over many years so it is important to ensure that, when the time comes, your business will realise its full potential.

Every business is different and every entrepreneur behind each business is different too. Therefore, there is no simple solution to formulating a successful plan for the future.

In building rapport with our clients and adopting a proactive approach to succession planning, we can help you tackle this issue and achieve your business goals.

Are you looking to sell your business?

Are you considering buying a business?

Are you disputing the value of your business with a third party?

In all these, and other, circumstances a professionally prepared valuation of your business can save you a considerable amount of money.

At Styles and Co we have a specialist corporate finance team who have the knowledge and skills to assist you to value your business for whatever purpose.

If you have decided to exit your business, you will be happier in the knowledge that you are realising its full potential.

By effectively preparing your business for sale, you probably will add considerably to its ultimate value.

We can typically help you in the following areas:

• Ensuring the business does not rely on the outgoing management
• Maximising profitability whilst eliminating those areas which generate inadequate return
• Formalising relationships with key suppliers and customers
• Bringing key employees into the management team
• Ensuring the business owns assets it uses but not those which are surplus
• Where possible, conclude outstanding disputes and tax issues

When you sell your business, you will want to know that you are paying as little tax as possible.

Often, when businesses are sold, there are large tax liabilities arising from the transaction. It may be possible to reduce these liabilities or defer them.

At Styles and Co we have a team of tax consultants who specialise in advising clients in the complex area of transactional tax.

Often business sales are made to either an existing management team already in place or to a new management team looking to buy into the business.

Styles and Co has acted for clients in many management buyouts (MBO's) and buy-ins (MBI's).

We can help you in either situation by:

• Agreeing the purchase price
• Structuring the deal effectively
• Raising the required finances
• Conducting financial due diligence

Most of all, by using us, you will be assured of our involvement throughout all stages of the transaction to ensure deadlines are met and the deal completes effectively.