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The process

How a sale works

Five steps from the first call to a completed handover. You can stop at any of them.

Confidential call

Twenty minutes on your timeline, your clients, your team and what you want to happen.

Indicative terms

A range and the things that move it, explained.

Due diligence

Recurring income, client mix, concentration, permissions, past business.

Heads of terms

Price, structure, timing, your involvement afterwards, and what happens to your team.

Handover

Client communication, novation and a transition run at the pace you set.

What happens between the steps

The five headings above are the shape of it. In practice most of the elapsed time sits in two places: the gap between indicative terms and the start of due diligence, which is you deciding whether to proceed, and the file review, which is us reading suitability documentation.

What we need, and when

At the first call: recurring income, roughly how many clients, the platforms you use, and when you want to stop. At indicative terms: the income split between ongoing and one-off, and your ten largest clients by income, unnamed. At due diligence: the files.

Where deals slow down

Almost always documentation. A firm whose suitability files are complete moves through diligence in a fraction of the time, and holds its price. That is the argument for preparing a year out.

Straight answers

Questions about the process

Do I need a broker?
No. You are dealing with the acquirer, so there is nobody in the middle taking a fee.
What do you need from me at the start?
Recurring income, a rough client count, the platforms you use and your timeline. Nothing confidential until we have both decided it is worth going further.
When does it become binding?
Not until the sale agreement. Heads of terms set the shape but are not a commitment to complete.
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