Acquiring a Business?

For those wishing to buy a business we offer a wide range of services, including finding and brokering, through to post acquisition mentoring and team building.

We Offer a Dynamic Business Finding Services

With this service, after discussing your plans and ambitions, we try to match them against our database of prospective sellers and companies we know of in the relevent market sector/s.

If no suitable company exists we take a proactive approach and try to stimulate interest in synergistic parties through market awareness programmes and dynamic subtle stimulation. Where we will try to encourage business owners and shareholders not already in the market to consider selling their business to your company.

We offer Total Discretion?

You will be surprised how indiscrete some players in the M&A sector can be. Do you really want your staff to know what is going through your mind?

Similarly, do you want the staff and shareholders of your prospective acquisition target to find out about your desires? Believe it or not, we have many examples of where companies receive daily un-solicited "do you want to sell your business" faxes?

Business Synergies is far more sophisticated and discrete. We do a lot of background work to select and pre-validate suitable targets. Because we understand technology we also try to find synergistic businesses that you may not have even considered. Once we have got a shortlist, we then use direct one to one contact with the owner or Board to open talks.

 

"Look mummy a man wants to buy my business!"

We can help you look Beyond the P&L and Balance Sheet!

Too often full commercial due-diligence takes place on the eve of the acquisition, by this time a lot of money has been expended by both parties. Inevitability at this late stage a few skeleton/s will pop out of the closet. By this stage both parties are faced with massive legal bills and serious embarrassment making abortion out of the question! Rapid fixes have to be applied, this usually results in added risk, more warranties and associated distrust going forward.

All of this could be avoided if the right questions are asked early enough, this is where your relationship with business synergies can be invaluable. By hiring us to apply pre-nuptial due-diligence we cannot only flush out the skeletons, but we can give the vendors time to amend the issues and/or re-negotiate the offer price on more amicable terms.

We can help you Understand the People Involved!  

Often there is more behind the reason for the sale of a business than simply commercial gain. The last thing you want is to wake up the day after the fizz from the champagne has died down to found that you have just acquired a monster of a business, with its associated disgruntled or uncontrolled staff and management.

At Business Synergies we all know that like a courting couples it is easy to put on an act for short periods. However, have you ever thought about how you, your staff and the staff and former owners of the business you have just acquired are going to get on? And if they don't what the consequences could be?

Our belief is that pre-mentoring can be used to get to know people - without suspicions being raised with either party over the ulterior motives. This can be conducted under the disguise of training or management development.

We try to select the Best Company for you! 

We can pre-screen potential acquisition targets on your behalf, this screening will be discrete and cover technical, financial and general business activities.

We can also help you set up KPIs, that is key performance indicators in matrix form permitting you to compare one business against another on equal terms.

We have also developed traffic light scoring systems that we believe lets you quantify the answers to questions swiftly without burdensome reams of written answers to sift through. This can be tailored to include your specific questions.

We offer Technical Due Diligence

This is often one of the most neglected areas of the acquisition process, were the acquirers are often left to fend for themselves due to the lack of technical knowledge in the Business Transfer Agency.

Business Synergies is reversing this unsatisfactory situation, we can work with you to ensure that even before you reach the pre-nuptial stages we can apply various degrees of pre-acquisition due diligence to both the intended target and to yourself in order to ensure that you can cope with the business once you have acquired it.

Where there are failings. we can help to train staff to bring them up to speed as part of an integration programme.

We will be your Official Go-Between

Keeping your name confidential we can act as a go-between whilst we test the water with a number of potential sellers that you may have already identified.

If successful then under a strict confidentiality arrangement we will take the transaction forward to its natural conclusion.

We can offer Guidance on Valuations

If you are looking to purchase a business then how much should you expect to pay? What is the going rate? Why is one business worth more than another outwardly identical business?

We offer a service that will help you understand the realities of business valuation with your specific target business and market sector in mind. We will work to achieve synergy between you and the sellers aspirations both financially and with regards to each parties post acquisition expectations.