Having built up your business over many years you have finally made the big step and decided it’s time to hang up your boots. You have a buyer and an offer has been made and accepted and now the due diligence process is under way. You are becoming increasingly...
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Resolving Directors’ disputes
As business advisers working with MDs we are used to solving business problems and recommending courses of action across the range of business disciplines. Recently we have been involved in a number of cases where we have sought to resolve disputes between Directors...
Brexit – What now for SMEs?
The electorate has decided that the UK should leave the EU. How best can SMEs respond to the coming changes? Whether you are pleased with the outcome or dismayed is irrelevant. The decision has been made. What you need to focus on is how best to manage and grow...
Top Preparation Tips When Raising Finance For Your Company
Now that the economy is on the mend and confidence is rising, management teams are beginning to look at new capital expenditure and therefore ways of raising the required funding. The first thing to understand is not to rush into anything and to make careful...
Case Study: Leadership Succession Coaching in Action
Gordon is MD of a £24m turnover business. He is aware that in the next few years there will be a number of retirements at senior levels and there is an experience gap between Board members and the next tier down. He has identified Richard as possibly having the...
How To Significantly Increase the Sale Value of Your Business
Big public companies trade at a significant premium over small businesses in the same industry because investors perceive big, sophisticated companies as a safer bet than small, owner-dependent companies. So how do you get a public company-style multiple profit value...
What you need to know about the new Person of Significant Control Register
With the tax crack down governments in the G20/EU have agreed to have legislation in place for transparency in ownership of companies and LLP trusts. The UK has this now in place and all companies/LLP's must have a register and declare their Persons of Significant...
How coaching can support leadership change in a small business
Coaching might be seen as the new buzzword of the age. It has come to cover a multitude of interventions – consulting, training, educating, advising, mentoring, therapy, counselling and so on. For me coaching is about engaging with the whole person to achieve the...
10 Top Tips on How to Penetrate a New Industrial Sector
If you’re in a certain industry, or looking to get into a new industrial sector, you need to learn all you can about the industry. Questions you might want to ask include who are the key players? Who are the up-and-coming and on the ‘watch this space’ players? Who has...