The MGroup’s primary engagement model is known as “The Exit Board” – ‘A Professional Board, delivered at the SME level – the ‘one stop shop’ when planning your exit’.

‘The Exit Board’ is an integrated solution for shareholders exploring ways to exit their business. It provides a comprehensive review of the various exit options based on your particular needs, circumstances and timescales. ‘The Exit Board’ introduces relevant professional disciplines to your boardroom and allows you to effectively outsource the process of exiting. We focus on delivering key support elements to enhance the chances of exiting the business in the most appropriate and tax efficient way, at the right time and for maximum value.

Through a series of three distinct phases, we help you establish what exit options are best suited to you and your particular business and capture this in a ‘Strategic Exit Plan’. We then project manage this plan. The phases are:

1. Assessment: 

• Establish the objectives for your exit planning so specific objectives and activities are prioritised, including the time frame for exiting the business.
• Undertake critical assessments of your business, including legal, financial, reviews
• Check the marketplace demand for your business
• Provide a valuation for the business
• Consider the multiple options available, including amongst others, a sale to a strategic Trade buyer, an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), Management Buy Out (MBO), a Management Buy In (MBI), or a combination of options, including private equity investment

2. Growth:

• Engineer necessary changes to improve the business profile and future attractiveness to the market
• Strengthen the legal and financial footings of the business
• Review the type and appropriateness of funding in the business.

3. Exit:

• Project manage the route chosen through a continuous series of board meetings; these can be monthly on site or through a virtual process
• Utilise other highly skilled professional partners to assist the process

‘Free’ Business Consultation, Valuation & Exit Planning Workshop

Whether you plan to exit in the next six months or five years from now, it’s never too early to start planning. We specialise in working with Entrepreneurs, Investors, Family Businesses and SME’s, so to find out more about ‘The Exit Board’, contact us now to take part in a tailored session designed to answer the most commonly asked questions, such as:

• Is now the right time to sell?
• What is the value of my business?
• What exit options exist?
• Is there a solution to satisfy all the shareholders?
• How can I make my business more attractive?
• How much do I need to fulfil my plans and goals after sale?
• How long will it take to sell?
• What’s involved in the sale process?
• What should I do now to start preparing?
• How can I maximise value?
• Can you introduce me to professional partners?

Included in your Free Business Consultation workshop

1. Establish your key objectives and goals as shareholders.
2. An opportunity to explore the multiple exit options that exist.
3. Understand the range of possible buyers and what they’re looking for.
4. Valuation’ guidance and current market sentiment.
5. What funding solutions exist to help support a transaction.
6. What you need to do early on to enhance the future value of your business.

Get in touch

Mark Crossfield
Corporate Finance Partner
m.crossfield@themgroup.co.uk

Ian Walker PDipBPM, AIFS
Senior Manager, Corporate Finance
i.walker@themgroup.co.uk

Geoff Pinder BSc (Env. Science)
Senior M&A Advisor
g.pinder@themgroup.co.uk