Business owners – how Auxilium can help you
As a business owner, you’ve probably been busy building your business and haven’t necessarily thought about replacing yourself as Managing Director. We can help.
Auxilium can find and introduce a highly capable and experienced Director to “take over the reins” of the business.
The new Director could effect a management buyin (MBI) of your business. This involves bringing in an external individual to lead the existing management team in purchasing all or part of the owner’s share capital. If, as a business owner, you are “paternalistic” in your outlook, then a buyin or buyout transaction can be a very effective way of securing your legacy for the future.
A buyin or buyout can enable an owner to depart in a more controlled manner than some other methods of sale. These transactions can be an effective way of overcoming some of the common issues with the sale of a business, particularly a trade sale, whereby the incoming trade buyer could negatively affect the legacy of your efforts through rationalisation, redundancy programmes and site closure.
If you are looking for support to develop your business and realise maximum value when the time is right, then we can help.
We are a key provider of these services to owners of private companies across the UK.
Some common issues for owners to consider:
- Business is not ‘sale ready’
- Business performance may dip during the sale process
- Issues arising from due diligence which might be troubling to funders
- Difficulty in sourcing trade buyers
- Vendor reticence in sharing sensitive information
- Vendor unable to achieve their “magic number” and need to re-evaluate against the market
- Vendor gets cold feet
At Auxilium, due to our mix of corporate finance & executive search skills we can offer Vendors short or medium term solutions to these problems that can help to make a business more ‘sale ready’ and/or keep a transaction progressing via the existing advisers.
Where Auxilium can help… businesses and scenarios with the following characteristics:
- Entrepreneurs with a desire to realise some value in their business in the short term but remain involved for the foreseeable future;
- Owners who are or have been involved in a failed or stalled business sale process but who still have a desire to realise the value in their business;
- Family businesses where the owner is keen to retire or reduce involvement steadily but has no immediate family (or other) successor;
- A company where there is a recognised need to bring in an outside investor/director to improve growth potential and/or release value for an exiting owner;
- Investor Director candidates, or teams looking to carry out an MBO;
- Corporate owners looking to divest from a non-core subsidiary or one out of administration.
Auxilium Advisory supports owners and aspiring owners of businesses. With a unique mix of corporate finance and executive headhunting skills, we provide innovative solutions for owners, buyers and entrepreneurs. Consequently, we do a number of things to support you:
- Transact on SME acquisitions, with enterprise value less than £20m
- Carry out and effect a funding search, covering all forms of debt and equity capital
- Act as Non Executive providing support to help you build value in key areas
- Act as a catalyst for business owners and their advisers to unlock “stuck” transactions
- Provide value driven solutions in management buyouts and buyin transactions
- Act as Deal Origination expert for corporate or Listed groups
- Provide management solutions for PE and venture capital deals
Auxilium can also support business owners in building and realising value in their business, through:
- Target acquisition search
- Strategy and planning support pre-sale to add value and achieve maximum sale value
- Growth capital funding search
- Management and executive/non-executive headhunting and executive recruitment
- Team building and team development programmes
- Corporate finance support to effect an acquisition
- Non Executive level support from our team on a monthly/quarterly basis
- Growth strategies; management development; process implementation; market penetration
- Funding search for early stage businesses
Contact us today for more information.