Specialist advisory for owners of private and family businesses — whether you are selling your company, growing it through acquisition, or navigating a shareholder dispute.
Owner-managed SMEs and family businesses across the UK — selling, buying to grow, or dealing with shareholder disputes requiring independent valuation evidence.
Whether you are exiting, growing through acquisition, or resolving a dispute — we bring decades of deal experience to your side of the table.
Before you go to market, you need to know what your business is genuinely worth — and how to make it worth more. We provide rigorous, independent valuations and work with you to maximise value ahead of any sale process.
Whether you are selling your business or acquiring one, the process is complex, unfamiliar and high-stakes. We act as your trusted guide throughout — keeping you in control, helping you appoint the right advisers, and making sure you are never alone at the negotiating table.
Our core speciality. We are experienced negotiators who understand not just price, but the full range of deal terms — earn-outs, warranties, retention, restrictive covenants — that determine what you actually walk away with.
Acquisition is often the fastest and most cost-effective route to meaningful growth — new customers, new capabilities, new markets. But only if you acquire the right business, at the right price, on the right terms. We work with ambitious SME owners to build and execute a clear acquisition strategy.
We have advised on both sides of the table throughout our careers. That experience — knowing exactly how sellers think and what drives their decisions — gives our acquisition clients a significant edge.
Refined through decades of advising owner-managers and family business owners across a wide range of sectors and deal sizes.
We understand your business deeply — its drivers, risks, and genuine market value — and clarify what success looks like for you personally.
We strengthen the business, prepare the documentation, and position the company compellingly to the right buyers or targets.
We appoint the best advisers, approach buyers or targets selectively, and manage the process to maintain competitive tension throughout.
We negotiate hard on every term — not just price — and guide you through due diligence and legal close to a successful completion.
When shareholders are in dispute, the quality of expert evidence can determine the outcome. We provide rigorous, court-ready expert witness services on matters of private company valuation.
When the value of a business is in dispute, you need an expert who truly understands how private companies are bought and sold in the real market — not just academic theory.
Whether you are thinking about selling, looking to grow through acquisition, or dealing with a shareholder dispute — the first conversation costs nothing. We will give you an honest view and clear next steps.