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 you here.
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 buy-in (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.