Business brokerage
Selling a business, confidentially
Nothing is advertised, and nothing is discussed with a buyer, without your say-so. For most owners confidentiality is the whole brief.
Confidential by process
The listing describes the business without identifying it, and buyers are qualified and under agreement before they see more.
Valued on the books
A price a buyer will actually underwrite, based on the financials rather than on what the business feels like it is worth.
Buyers qualified first
Nobody sees anything identifying until they have demonstrated they can complete. It protects the sale and the staff.
What you get
- 01 A valuation based on the numbers a buyer will actually underwrite
- 02 Buyers qualified before they see anything identifying
- 03 Negotiation and contract support through to settlement
- 04 Timing advice, including when not to go to market yet
Confidentiality is a process, not a promise
Staff, customers and suppliers finding out before you are ready is the risk that does real damage, and it usually happens through a careless advertisement rather than a leak.
So the listing is written to describe the business without identifying it, and buyers are qualified and under agreement before they see more.
Get your books in order first
The single biggest thing that moves a business price is clean, verifiable financials. If they are not there yet, the honest advice is to spend a year getting them there rather than going to market now.
The leak that does the damage
Staff, customers and suppliers finding out before you are ready is the risk that actually costs money, and it almost never comes from a leak. It comes from a careless advertisement that named the suburb, the trade and the turnover, which between them identify the business to anybody in the industry.
Start the conversation confidentially
Nothing is advertised, and nothing is discussed with a buyer, without your say-so. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Going to market before the books are clean is the single biggest discount a seller applies to themselves.
- A valuation based on the numbers a buyer will underwrite
- Buyers qualified before they see anything identifying
- Negotiation and contract support through to settlement
- Honest timing advice, including when not to go to market yet